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| Donald Provan Donald Provan's large, powerful landscapes look back to the stony shorelines of his native Scotland notably to East Wemyss, an old mining village where he used to fish as a boy. But people, incident, anecdote are nowhere to be found here. Instead, these are paintings about places where land and water meet, explored with a meticulousness heightened by Provan's limited palette - blues, greys, tans and the softest of browns - and his subtle understanding of tone and texture. At once entirely specific and yet clearly on intimate terms with abstraction, these intricate descriptions of sky, sea and shingle are less a record of how things actually look than an account of a particular way of seeing. Donald is a graduate and postgraduate of Edinburgh College of Art. He has had several solo shows and widely exhibited in group shows across the UK. A regular prize winner, he has received a Grant from The Scottish Arts Council, two from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Canada, and twice been awarded prizes by the Royal Glasgow Institute. Please click image for details |