- About
Simon Rivett lives in the Outer Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland. He is a 1984 Fine Art graduate of Goldsmiths College in London.
It takes time to look beyond the obvious and understand the depth of the landscape, to interpret its subtle moods and to see the interactions between its different aspects. I have spent years painting the moor, abandoning it to paint the sea cliffs, the mountains, the light, and the snow, and then revisiting each theme again and again, drawing out new characteristics, developing new techniques, moving from abstraction to representation through every shade of imagery, at every scale. The result is a continual construction, destruction, and reconstruction, wrestling with oil, pigment, watercolour, turpentine, wax, sand, to bring the experience of landscape to a surface.
Simon Rivett
Taigh Ur
24 Gearrannan
Carloway
Isle of Lewis
HS2 9AL
Tel #44 (0)1851 643 452
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