• Source: James Hawkins (artist)

James Allan Hawkins (born April 1954) is an English painter and film maker associated with Scottish Highland landscape. He lives, works and exhibits at his open studio RhueArt in Rhue, three miles North of Ullapool.




Early life


Hawkins was educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath. He went on to study at Wimbledon School of Art, London and Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University. After graduating he moved to the Highlands of Scotland in 1978 with his wife Flick.




Career


His early work was figurative and mostly painted outside, on-location on the West coast of Scotland. After a commission in 1986 to produce stage sets for a production of The Brahan Seer at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness his work became larger and semi abstract. He exhibited at the 369 Gallery, Edinburgh during the 1980s and in 1989 he won Warwick Arts Trust prize. In 1996 his paintings were part of Heartlands an overview of Scottish landscape painting at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh. Commissioned to paint large polyptych for Inverness airport in 2004. In 2005 he began making short video films about nature's microcosm. In 2012 Hawkins has broken away from his traditional medium or acrylic on stretched canvas and started working with carbon fiber and core board to create freestanding irregular shaped cut-out pieces.




Style


Hawkins work has always concentrated on landscape. Early paintings were figurative painted in watercolour on location. After he turned to acrylic his practice became increasingly studio based but with reference to frequent camping and walking trips throughout Scotland. The work has been abstract at times and representational at others a progression that the artist describes as "being like climbing a spiral staircase, by turns arriving at a similar point but from a different perspective". The surfaces of the paintings are complex and textured the artist applying paint with large painting knives and pieces of board. Most recently he has been making cut out paintings, fragments of landscape that are freestanding irregular shapes mounted on carbon fiber.




Solo exhibitions


2012 Cutting Edge, RhueArt in Cork Street London
2009 Chronicles of the straight line Ramblers Club, London
2007 Water, Wind and Light, Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
2006 Atlantic Coast, Duff House Scottish National Galleries, Banff
2003 Way Out West, Davies and Tooth, London
2002 Kilmorack Gallery Beauly
2001 Art on the Links, St Andrews
1999 Landscape, Colour and Light, Davies and Tooth, London
1998 A Journey in all Weathers, Davies and Tooth, London
1997 Inferences, Bellevue Gallery, Edinburgh
1996 Duncan R Millar Fine Arts, Glasgow
1993 Coventry Gallery, London
1992 Sacred Sights, C.Boyd Gallery, Galashiels
1991 Sense of Place, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh
1990 Gallerie Van Alom, Berlin
1989 Gallery 202 London
1987 Landmarks, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh
1983 McLean Art Gallery, Greenock




Group exhibitions


2011 Perception, RhueArt at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh; Scottish Housing Expo, Inverness
2009 Glasgow Art Fair
2008 Thompson's Galleries, Aldeburgh, London
2005 Millennium Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands; Kilmorack Gallery, The Gallery, Cork Street, London; Art’05 London Contemporary Art fair
Scottish Exhibition, Richmond Hill Gallery, London
2004 Thompson's Gallery Aldeburgh, London; Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
2003 Summer Exhibition, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2002 International Art Fair, New York; Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA
2001 Art'01 London Contemporary Art Fair
2001 Living the Land, Duff House, Scottish National Galleries, Banff
1997 Lineart’97, International Art Fair, Ghent
1996 ART 96, London Contemporary Art Fair
1996 Glasgow Art Fair
1996 Heartland, 20th Century Scottish Landscapes, Edinburgh
1995 ‘Prints for the Western Isles’, Gulbenkian Foundation
1991 Mountain Experience, Highland Region Touring Exhibition
1989 Scottish Landscape, 369 Gallery National Touring Exhibition; Into the Highlands, McManus Gallery, Dundee
1988 Light and Space, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews; Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 369 Gallery Edinburgh; Artravaganza, Smith Gallery, Stirling
1987 Seven Artists’ View of Iona, 369 Gallery Edinburgh
1986 McLean Biennial, Greenock
1978 369 Gallery, Edinburgh
1975 Balliol College, Oxford




Film and video


2008 ambiEnt Festival, Brescia, Italy
2007 A Series of Fortunate Events, Inverness City Centre; Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition, Edinburgh; Water, Wind and Light, Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
2006 Atlantic Coast, Duff House, Scottish National Galleries, Banff
2005 Dreaming Spires, Edinburgh
2001 Highland Festival ‘Elements’, Animation Collaboration
1986 Biston Betularia, performance/ video




Awards and Commissions


2004 The Great Glen, Inverness Airport
1998 Scottish Art, GlenFiddich Distillery, Dufftown
1989 Painter of the Year, Warwick Arts Trust, London
1986 The Brahan Seer, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
1976 Painting Prize, Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University




Collections



Buchanan Ingersoll, London
City Art Centre, Edinburgh City Council
Denton Wilde Sapte, London, Brussels, Paris
The Fleming Collection, London
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Highland Council
Highland Regional Council
Paintings in Hospitals, Scotland
Prudential plc
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Warwick Arts Trust




References






External links



Official James Hawkins Website
Official James Hawkins Agent Website

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