Eric Cruikshank :: Texture Dissolves / Colour Radiates
&Gallery are delighted to host Eric Cruikshank's forthcoming solo exhibition 'Texture Dissolves / Colour Radiates' between 7th March and 1st April!
About Eric Cruikshank :: Texture Dissolves / Colour Radiates
We’re delighted to announce Eric Cruikshank’s forthcoming solo exhibition at &Gallery.
Taking landscape as a point of departure, Eric Cruikshank’s paintings move beyond literal representation to explore the emotive qualities of place. Using an objective palette rooted in the Scottish landscape, colour reveals underlying picture planes rather than describing specific sites. Grounded in structure, design, and colour harmony drawn from the everyday, the work invites viewers to reconsider the familiar as open and full of possibility.
Positioned between past and present, the paintings open a dialogue between historical and contemporary concerns. Emerging from a strong Scottish figurative tradition, Cruikshank rejects narrative, drawing instead on the legacies of Colour Field Painting and Post-Minimalist art. His practice centres on the material properties of paint, the emotive resonance of colour, and the process of painting itself. The pared-back aesthetic, realised through meticulous craft, seeks to engage the viewer in an experience beyond passive observation.
The surfaces are executed with controlled precision, eliminating visible brush marks and overt traces of the artist’s hand. Thin, layered bands of colour are built and refined through subtraction until equilibrium is reached. From a distance, the works may appear as a single hue; up close, subtle gradations unfold as one band dissolves into another. Gentle luminosity and tonal modulation imply movement, while restrained colour vibrations create a quiet rhythm that extends beyond the picture plane.
The edges retain material traces of accumulated layers, marking decisions embedded in the process. The paintings evoke contemplative spaces shaped by time and memory, operating simultaneously as abstraction and representation. Each state continually emerges from and recedes into the other. Through sustained looking, fragments of recollection surface, where certainty gives way to possibility.
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