Location
Fraserburgh Harbour Industrial estate
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire
OS Map Reference
NK 001 665
Date
Ongoing
Description
There is a tradition in this area of ship painters using the exterior of their premises try their colours and clean their brushes etc. This results in heavily textured and intense abstract expressionist works of an impressive scale. Some might argue that they lack sufficient intentionallity to be considered art works but they are definitely intended to be seen.
W. Bruce's shed has developed a degree of impasto that makes it almost sculptural with sections reminiscent of Anish Kapoor's early pieces, this is contrasted with a naive figurative painting on the door of a trawler in front of the nearby dunes.
Era
2000s
Categories
Iconography
- ship
Photographer
- David Watson Hood
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