IAN SCOTT MASSIE: PAINTER AND PRINTMAKER
  • Home
  • Art
    • Giclee Prints
    • Open Edition Prints
    • The Yorkshire Dales
    • Masham
    • Yorkshire
    • Midlands
    • Scotland
    • London and The South
    • The North of England: Lake District and The North East
    • Large Paintings
    • Miscellany
    • Northern Soul
    • Screen Prints
  • Commissions
  • Exhibitions
  • Contact
    • Contact
    • Where you can find me
    • Previous Exhibitions
    • Biography
  • Books etc.
  • Courses
  • Art Tuition
  • Blog
  • On Film

Ian Scott Massie's Blog

Going Into Print

7/23/2012

1 Comment

 
Picture
Janet's Foss 3 colour screen print Edition of 8

























Until I went to Neville's Cross College in Durham in 1973 I had no idea what a screen print was. But then I met a couple of art students who were turning out fabulous images using a process that was incredibly simple and brilliantly clever. 

As with so many wonderful things, it was the Chinese who came up with screen printing. You take a piece of fabric (silk was the norm for a long time), stretch it over a frame and block out areas - with a stencil or by painting on a special blocking fluid - that you don't want to print. Then using a squeegee (a short length of wood holding a rubber blade) you squeeze ink through the screen onto the paper or fabric beneath.

On Janet's Foss (above) I began by blocking out the white areas of the waterfall and reflection and printed the pale green layer. Next, everything that is pale green was blocked out and the mid green layer was printed. Lastly everything but the dark green areas was blocked and the print was completed.

Used in this way screen printing is perfect for painters since (as long as you can think in terms of negative space) it allows you to use to same skill set that one normally uses directly on paper. Compared with etching, for example, it is a low tech, clean, safe process requiring no acid baths or sharp tools.


Picture
Brograve Mill 4 colour screen print Edition of 9
Picture
Masham Church 3 colour screen print Edition of 7
When I came back to screen printing after a gap of many years I found that the materials had changed (manmade fibre screens and easy to clean water-based inks) and also that I had changed. As a result of my years developing as a painter I had found a style and some of this carried over into screen print. For the prints of both Brograve Mill (a derelict windmill in North Norfolk) and Masham Church (which I see every time I look out of my window) I have used a very limited palette. I have also made strong use of shadows, reflections and texture techniques - all ideas which have developed from my painting. I also like the fact that a screen print is very much a handmade work and I only produce small editions of print (usually only 6 to 10 copies of each image). 

I now find that painting and screen printing allow me to develop artistic ideas in very different ways.

All the new prints above, and several more, can be seen on the freshly-revised screen print page on my website. CLICK HERE to be taken there.

To receive updates on my work as it develops follow me on Facebook (by CLICKING HERE) or on Twitter (by CLICKING HERE).

A large selection of my work is always available at The Masham Gallery.
1 Comment

Under A Northern Sky

7/13/2012

0 Comments

 
Picture
Under A Northern Sky was first published in 2009. It is a collection of poetry and paintings which I had written and painted over a number of years and which I felt complimented each other. 

It now appears in a completely revised second edition and is the first book to appear in the imprint of Masham Gallery Press.

It is priced at £9.95 and is available from The Gallery, Masham

ISBN  978-1-909260-00-9

CLICK HERE to order Under A Northern Sky 
A few extracts from Under A Northern Sky :
Picture





















Curlews

Wind of cloudscape and seaspray
Scours, roars, glides and soars between the evening hills.
Kissing the fan of falling water,
Rattling the rusted shells of leaves on limestone,
Hissing in a tide of trees
And lifting the magic bird.

The stone coloured camouflaged curlew -
Curving beak and curving song -
Swings like a dark lantern on the unseen slopes of sky
And pours its liquid flight
Down to the nest of night.


Picture
















Waterfalls


Its is only when I am afar and alone
My three loves,
That I see you clearly.
Glittering,
Poured like wine over silver,
You are my roses and my rain.

Hard on the ice-bound edge of the year
Or drowsy in folds of a summer meadow,
I sleep with your dreams running sweet through my song
And know you,
In truth,
As the only gold.

I am always in awe of your matchless light,
But ever I aim where my strength will not follow,
So I am Icarus and you are the sun
And I die for your joy and am glad in my sorrow.


Picture






















A November Kind of Day

This is the hour when the weariness comes
And the pen is falling from my fingers,
When cobbles shine with rain and afternoon light,
And the smoky smells of autumn linger,
And I think about you and I miss you still.
I wish you could hear my song but you never will.
Its a November kind of day.

This is the hour when a telephone rings
But no-one’s ever there to answer.
This is the time when all the fog fills the sky
And hides the heaven’s silver dancers.
And I turn your memory over in my hand.
The way I feel today I know you’d understand.
Its a November kind of day.

This is the time when night comes hungry and cold
Devouring dreams with deadly fingers.
This is the time just like the time you left my life.
I thank God the memory still lingers.
On days like this I feel so sad I cannot say.
I miss the years we lost because you passed away.
Its a November kind of day today.


Picture
















The Wishing Seat


Whenever I’m here I’m never alone,
There’s always you and me.
Whenever I’m here I feel at home
On the old tree’s bones
Where the sunshine’s warm
And the wind sighs and sings and moans
Like a ship on the southern seas.

Whenever I’m here its a lovely day
Under winter or summer skies
And in times to come when you’re far away
I’ll be leaning back on the bark of grey
And feeling inside the warm sun’s rays
And looking out of your eyes.

Whenever I’m here and the touch of gold
Is frosting the winter breeze
I will always find your hands to hold
For wherever we are we are touching souls
Forever
For in my wishes are folded
Your words by the wishing tree.


0 Comments

The Edge of the World

7/7/2012

1 Comment

 
Picture
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse (Watercolour)




New Exhibition at The Gallery, Masham : The Edge of the World

21st July to 31st August
Picture
Saltburn Pier (Watercolour)

The Gallery in Masham is mounting an exhibition entitled The Edge of the World which opens with a preview on July 20th. The exhibition's title is taken from a remarkable film set on a remote Scottish island: The Edge of the World. (More about the film below).
Picture
Picture
Looking From The Yorkshire Border (Mixed Media)
Middlesmoor (Watercolour)


The exhibition will feature by some terrific artists: Catherine Sutcliffe-Fuller, Heather Gatt, Pamela Knight, Winifred Hodge, Gareth Buxton, Lesley Birch and myself.
 
The concept of "the edge" can mean so many things. The more I thought about it the more I realised that I would have to make some careful choices in exploring the subject. In the end I painted a serious of works which relate to the theme in different ways.
 
Two pictures: Looking From the Yorkshire Border and Saltburn Pier take Yorkshire as my world and show the views looking from the pass which leads from Cumbria into Swaledale and, far to the East, the end of Yorkshire where Saltburn pier dips its toes in the water.
Picture
Picture
Lindisfarne (Watercolour)
Lindisfarne (Screen Print)


The images of Lindisfarne and Bamburgh refer both to life on the edge of England but also to where the worlds of the Celtic saints and the Vikings first met. Middlesmoor Church is on a hill, high at the head of Nidderdale, standing in an ancient sacred place where, in the Dark Ages, the edge of earth met the edge of heaven.
Picture
Skye from Sanna (Screen Print)

Skye from Sanna and The Lightouse, Ardnamurchan are both paintings from Ardnamurchan in Argyllshire, the most westerly part of the British mainland. Here a long finger of land reaches out, over the isle of Mull, towards the Hebrides. It’s the edge of Scotland and it feels like the edge of another world.
 
Picture
Bamburgh (Watercolour)
 
The Edge of the World is at:
The Gallery, 24, Market Place, Masham,  North Yorkshire. HG4 4EB
www.mashamgallery.co.uk
 
There is a preview on July 20th at 7.30 pm. Come and join us for a glass of wine if you can.

The exhibition runs from  21st July to 31st August
The Gallery opening hours are:
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm
Monday - Closed
1 Comment

    Archives

    November 2022
    September 2020
    March 2020
    August 2017
    July 2017
    April 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    November 2012
    October 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012

Ian scott massie


Paintings & prints

Castles/Abbeys
Lake District
Large Paintings
Limited Editions
N York Moors
Places of Pilgrimage
Yorkshire Dales
N York Moors
Lake District

The Marches
Scotland
Screen Prints

About

Exhibitions
Books
Art Tuition
Commissions
Contact
Privacy Policy
​

Email

ianscottmassie@mac.com
  • Home
  • Art
    • Giclee Prints
    • Open Edition Prints
    • The Yorkshire Dales
    • Masham
    • Yorkshire
    • Midlands
    • Scotland
    • London and The South
    • The North of England: Lake District and The North East
    • Large Paintings
    • Miscellany
    • Northern Soul
    • Screen Prints
  • Commissions
  • Exhibitions
  • Contact
    • Contact
    • Where you can find me
    • Previous Exhibitions
    • Biography
  • Books etc.
  • Courses
  • Art Tuition
  • Blog
  • On Film