Clare Wardman & Iain Robertson

Iain Robertson
Mexican Toy Box
2007-10-23
Oil on canvas
122 x 91cm
£4,000

Iain Robertson
Black Wing
2002
Oil on canvas
30 x 30cm
£800

Iain Robertson
Don’t Eat Me
2007
Oil on canvas
30 x 30cm
£800

Iain Robertson
Poet’s House
2007
Oil on canvas
122 x 91 cm
£4,000

Iain Robertson
Fran Dance
2007
Oil on canvas
122 x 91cm
£4,000

Clare Wardman
Prima Vista - 18 August 2005
Triptych
Oil on canvas
92cm x 76cm
£2,000

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 2004 10/12
Collage on canvas
14 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 2004 4/12
Collage on canvas
14 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 2004  5/12
Collage on canvas
14 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 2004 7/12
Collage on canvas
14 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 2004  6/12
Collage on canvas
14 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 2004 9/12
Collage on canvas
14 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Light Arch
August 2005
Charcoal and oil on canvas
183 x 214cm
£6,000

Clare Wardman
Prima Vista 18 August 2006 14:12 – 17:14
Oil on canvas
183 x 214cm
£6,000

Clare Wardman
Prima Vista Red Section
6 May 2005 14:16 – 17:32
Oil on canvas
91 x 76cm
£2,000

Clare Wardman
Prima Vista
13 August 2005
oil on canvas
76cm x 92cm
£poa

Clare Wardman
Grid Black 2005
Oil on handmade Dutch paper
18 x 13cm
£350

Clare Wardman
Grid White 2005
Oil on handmade Dutch paper
18 x 13cm
£350

Clare Wardman
Light Drawing Solar Column 5 july 2003
Gesso and pastel on paper
79 x 104cm
£600

Clare Wardman
Light Tracking with Grid I 11 August 2004
Gesso pastels and pencil on paper
76 x 104cm
£600

Clare Wardman
Light Tracking with Grid II 12 August 2004
Gesso pastels and pencil on paper
76 x 104cm
£600

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 1/12
Collage on canvas
13.5 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 11/12
Collage on canvas
13.5 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 12/12
Pencil on canvas
13.5 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 2/12
Collage on canvas
13.5 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 3/12
Collage on canvas
13.5 x 19cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Advent Series 8/12
Collage on canvas
13.5 x 19cm
£550

Iain Robertson
Paradise no 5 2006
Oil on canvas
51 x 152cm
£4,000

Iain Robertson
Paradise no 6 2006
Oil on canvas
51 x 152cm
£4.000

Clare Wardman
Light Tracking St. Ives
Oil on canvas
75 x 70cm
£tba

Iain Robertson
Sweet Goddess
Carborundum
50 x 74cm
Edition of 15
£600

Clare Wardman
Untitled 2005 2/5
Drawing with thread; gesso and ink on paper
79 x 104cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Untitled 2005 3/5
Drawing with ink on paper
79 x 104cm
£550

Clare Wardman
Untitled 2005 1/5
Drawing with conte and ink on paper
79 x 104cm
£550

Clare Wardman’s work is part of a process she terms: ‘Prima vista.’ This, simply said, is the creation of work as a reaction to seeing something for the first time. Wardman’s ally in this ‘first view,’ is light. Tracking light as it moves and develops across a surface. Atlantic beach, garden or studio wall, this tracking process moves in many artistic dimensions. The light, physically manifest in gestural marks, each small stroke marking a point in time and creating a conceptual fusion with influences as far apart as Turner and Constable, to conceptualist Eva Hess.

The latest stage in the Prima vista journey saw an audience of intrigued onlookers in the Hepworth Sculpture Garden watching, as Wardman traced the light across that environment, taking her intellectual and painterly responses into a form of performance/physical art installation.

Her audience were ‘spending their time’ watching her register the light track, making this work a manifestation of that new dimension, and subsequently creating a merged image of the physical and non-physical elements of light, space, and time.

Iain Robertson on Clare Wardman
“Clare shows great clarity of idea and process. Working with her environment, distilling it to something that is beautiful in its purity, yet still very much of the world. It is landscape painting in its purest sense.”

Clare Wardman on Iain Robertson
“In the same way as there are those who use language and there are linguists; there are those who use colour and there are colourists. Ian’s connection to the Scottish tradition certainly contributes to him being a true colourist.”

Iain Robertson’s passionate, gestural, symbolic language and his bold use of extreme colour stand vibrating on the canvas, passing the point he refers to as “When you know what should happen, into an area that challenges both artist and viewer to make new discoveries”. His best work is the work that he can’t remember painting. This is Iain Robertson in an almost transcendent zone. Much like an actor must learn a script to the point he may forget it and start to make genuine discoveries, hearing words as thoughts leave his lips as if for the first time- Iain Robertson has grasped the formal considerations and techniques of his craft to a point where he is free to use his modern, primitive, almost runic language of symbols to navigate his own subconscious with a freshness that in turn appeals to the subconscious of the viewer, induced by the vibrant colour. Iain Robertson is indeed a true colourist of the Scottish tradition.

Clare Wardman & Iain Robertson - Biog