New Book & Art Cards, Now Available
I’m happy to announce that our new book and art cards for our exhibition ‘Squaring The Circles of Confusion: Neo-Pictorialism in the 21st century’, are now available from the Royal Photographic Society website/shop on this link here. This book accompanies the exhibition of the same title which will be shown in the...
Wire Pear
On June 17th I did a practicle workshop exploring themes pertinent to artist Matthew Darbyshireʼs practice and inspired by his new public artwork Hercules Meets Galatea. With museums and collections closed for many months and artists having limited opportunities to show and share artworks, this workshop was designed to consider...
There’s Someone in my Head…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, not because of lock-down but mainly because I’ve been really busy with my MA Fine Art which will end in September 2021. As far as my work is concerned it has changed quite dramatically over the last few months, it wasn’t an intentional...
self-i project
I’ve been working on my ‘Self-i’ project for the last few of months. last September I embarked on an MA Fine art degree `( I know – oldest student in town ) to try to push my art and to give me the next two years of just experimenting with my ideas. If I’m being honest, I would have hated the self-i images only a year ago as they didn’t fit in with my...
Squaring the Circles of Confusion – Exhibition
Squaring the Circles of Confusion; Neo-Pictorialism in the 21st century exhibition. This new exhibition, curated by Zelda Cheatle, celebrates the work of artists Takashi Arai, Susan Derges, David George, Joy Gregory, Tom Hunter, Ian Phillips McLaren, Celine Bodin and Spencer Rowell who each bring a pictorialist approach, through aesthetics or process to their contemporary work, addressing...
Gum Bichromate Print
This is a gum bichromate print from my recent ‘Drive By’ series called ‘The Road To Debden’ I decided to leave some brush marks on the bottom of this image to reinforce that this is a photograph made with watercolour pigment. Drive By series – Road to Debden – Tri-colour Gum Bichromate print. #gt3pg_gallery1 .gt3pg_item_main_wrapper {...
Contemporary fine art photography artist
This is my first post on this domain name IanPhillipsMcLaren.com after running with ipmclaren.com for the last couple of years for my fine art photography work. Things were starting to get a bit confusing using variations of my name, so thought I’d stick with my full name Ian Phillips McLaren. After 30 years of Fashion and portrait photography for various large companies / magazines /...
Down My Lane – Gum Bichromate
Some new gum prints shot down my lane, originally shot as digital, then printed CMY negatives, and printed as a gum bichromate print. The print is made up of 12 layers of watercolour pigment on watercolour paper and took just over one week to make.
Duotone Gum Print
Two new Duotone prints from ‘In The Mist’ series. Printed on 24cmx32cm 140lb watercolour paper. #gt3pg_gallery4 .gt3pg_item_main_wrapper { padding: 15px } /* Lightbox */ #popup_gt3pg_gallery4.gt3pg_wrap_autoplay:not(.changing-slide) .gt3pg_duration { animation-duration: 12000s; }