Kirkcudbright Galleries are delighted to present:
James Lumsden – Point Series
17th May – 13th July 2025
Mitchell Galleries, Top Floor Kirkcudbright Galleries.
Artworks for sale in this exhibition
The Mitchell Gallery opening times in Summer Hours are:
Monday – Saturday: 10am – 4:30pm and Sundays: 11:30 – 4:30pm (last entry to view Mitchell at 4:15pm daily)
For the past 9 years James Lumsden has worked between studios in Edinburgh and Lower Bayble in the Point peninsula on the Isle of Lewis, travelling across the Minch on a regular basis to work between studios. Continuing to develop work in the studio in Edinburgh, he has used the smaller studio in Lewis to create a separate yet related series of paintings.
‘James Lumsden – Point Series’ focuses primarily on new and recent work from the Hebrides studio, alongside a smaller grouping of new paintings from the Edinburgh studio. The paintings, although rooted in the same considerations of light, depth and mark as his recent work – and although essentially abstract – allude to landscape and a sense of place which has developed from living on the island.
‘My primary concern as a painter is the creation of a sense of light, colour, depth and feeling. Using a historical glazing process, yet utilising acrylic paint and mediums, I build multiple thin layers of translucent colour; layer upon layer, glaze upon mark upon glaze – concealing, revealing, action, reaction, until a sense of light and depth is achieved within the process. Each layer is dragged, pulled or manipulated with various implements – the process being repeated layer upon layer until the painting begins to emerge. Arrived at by both chance and deliberation, the final painting reveals varying chromatic strata, which can be seen through the translucence and depth of the work.
Each painting is imbued with an internal light. Not a depiction of light but the search for a sense of light emanating from within the painting. I want to see something brought to life, struggled for, with a sense of having its own history, and reflective of the time spent on its creation.
My aim is to create something positive and affirming which is filled with both light and darkness, contrasts, hesitations and contradictions – open paintings which allow the viewer’s imagination to search, wander or react at will’.
Biography
Born Inverness, 1964. Lives and works between Edinburgh and the Isle of Lewis. A professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists he has been the recipient of several awards including residency awards at the Banff Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada and The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland; a Scottish Arts Council Creative Development Award; a Royal Scottish Academy Residencies for Scotland Award, a Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals Award and two VACMA awards. Recent solo exhibitions include & Gallery, Edinburgh (2023, 2021, 2019, 2017); Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas (2023, 2018); Linlithgow Burgh Halls (2024); An Lanntair, Stornoway (2022), An Talla Solais, Ullapool (2021), Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London (2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2005, 2004, 2002); Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Canada (2018, 2015, 2012, 2010).
James Lumsden is represented in Scotland by & Gallery, Edinburgh
www.jameslumsdenartist.co.uk
www.andgallery.co.uk
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