Ian McCulley

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I studied Basic Design at Winchester College of Art, 3-D Construction at Southampton College of Art and Trent Park College, London.

I began painting in 1980, initially applying paint to constructions I had made, and then constructing paintings in 2-D on canvas and paper.

Ian McCulley - Rushforth Series

Exhibitions

I have exhibited my work at; Montage Gallery, Castleton, N.Yorkshire, the Easton Rooms, Rye, E.Sussex, the Chatton Gallery, Northumberland and most recently at the Lund Gallery, Easingwold, near York.

Ian McCulley - Rushforth Series

Ian McCulley - Other works

About the paintings

Background to the paintings. The images are from a series of paintings (approx. 50 at January 2010), started in 2005 and continuing.

Ian McCulley - Other works

Philosophy

I work in groups of structurally related paintings. These groups are inter-related. They start but do not stop and I add to the group when inspired to do so. These groups can be numerous- up to one hundred structurally similar images or as few as six.
The initial starting point for a group could be; a failed image, a person, a book (preferably surreal), a piece(s) of music (increasingly so) and of course, the landscape I see and live in. Other landscapes inform my paintings – seen or imagined- e.g. Dungeness or the puszta (the Hungarian plain). I don’t need to be in the landscape, I could be in a city but the painting process would be the same.