The artist - I like bright colours - they make me feel calm and excited.
Black combines his innate understanding of colour with his intuitive active mark-making to create inherently beautiful and balanced works. Black creates an exciting relationship between action and stillness in his work. With translucent washes of colour underlaying his work, Black builds onto these with his distinctive repeat gestural marks which in turn meld into dense focal points. The intriguing titles of Blacks’ artworks hint at the stories he sees unfolding in his abstract work.
Black accesses the Garvald Artists supported studio to create his work and has exhibited widely.
Artists CV
Creature Collective, Summerhall, 2023
Royal Scottish Academy 197th Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, 2023
Society Scottish Artist Open Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh, 2022
Humanity, Outside In National Open Exhibition:
Sotheby’s, London, 2023
Project Ability, Trongate 103, Glasgow 2023
Brighton and Hove Museum, 2024
Edinburgh Art Fair, O2, 2022
Yellow, Project Ability, 2022
Reverb, Visual Art Scotland Annual Exhibition, RSA, 2022
Evolving, Echoing, Entities, Jennifer Lauren Gallery, 2021
Autism: Abstraction and Colour, Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2017
Making Moving, Edinburgh, 2016
Garvald Artists at Paterson SA, Edinburgh, 2011