Squaring the Circles Exhibition – Press Release
The RPS Squaring the Circles of Confusion press release.
Squaring the Circles of Confusion – April 10th
Some new info on the exhibition; Squaring the Circles of Confusion – Neo-Pictorialism in the 21st century.
Date and Time
10 April until 21 June 2020
Thursday – Sunday 10am – 5pm
RPS House
337-340
Paintworks
Arnos Vale
Bristol
BS4 3AR
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 important issues and encouraging the beauty of the photographic image.
Date and Time
10 April until 21 June 2020
Thursday – Sunday 10am – 5pm
RPS House
337-340
Paintworks
Arnos Vale
Bristol
BS4 3AR
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.
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 / clients, I decided to move away from commercial photography to get back to making images for me. In order to immerse myself fully in fine art work, I’m starting my Fine Art masters degree at Cambridge Ruskin university / Cambridge School Of Art on 18th September 2019, possibly as the oldest student in town. I will post updates on my work and degree work as I go, on this blog.
Here are a couple of recent shots from my Drive By series.
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.
Hand-Crafted Gum Bichromate Prints
Gum bichromate prints:
Two new prints, from ‘Drive By’ and ‘In The Mist’. Printed on watercolour paper.
- Duotone gum print
Prints on Japanese Paper
Fine Art Prints on Japanese paper:
Some random prints that I made with the view to starting a project .
These images are printed as Limited Edition handcrafted archival prints, on hand coated Japanese Kozo paper. I may print these as open edition archival pigment Giclée prints ( which are more affordable ) if anyone is interested in them, they’d be printed on a similar Japanese Kozo paper.
