Ian PASCOE

Pigment and Pen
6 - 29 August 2015
with Joy BRENTWOOD AGRA

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I am an artist who lives at Rhyll on Phillip Island, where I share a studio with my wife Joy Brentwood (joybrentwoodart.com). Surrounded as we are by the beauty of the bay, the boats and the birds, this is a wonderful and inspiring place to be an artist. 

Moving to Phillip Island has re-ignited my love of boats and drawn me into the wonderful world of waterbirds and honeyeaters and other plants and animals. The combination of pen and ink with watercolour provides a distinctive way of treating these subjects. 

During a scientific career as a mycologist, I did many drawings portraying the technical details of microfungi in pen and ink. In my artistic career I initially moved away from the technical world,  painting landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes in pastel and watercolour.  Increasingly, however, the pen has lured me back into drawing the natural world.  

I am inspired to draw, as much as anything else, by the technical challenges of turning a complex array of visual inputs into a single well-expressed idea rendered mostly in black and white. I relish the permanency of ink, and the consequent absence of second chances. Make a mark and learn to live with it! 

Every painting is an experiment, a pitched battle between my abilities and inabilities to control composition, colour and tone and the technical aspects of the medium being used.  If the result is unexpected, so much the better.  Whatever the result, something is always learned, and who knows?..... One day I might get the hang of it!  Above all, my paintings have to tell a story through a combination of composition, atmosphere, texture and movement. 

I am a member and former councillor of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists (AGRA), a member of the Pastel Society of Victoria, Australia and a member of the Artists Society of Phillip Island.

Ian Pascoe, 2015

 
Selected Exhibitions and Awards:

Artists Society of Phillip Island, Easter Weekend 2015 - Exhibition and Sale
San Remo Rotary Art and Photographic Show 2015
DrawingAGRA Galleries, Feb 2015, the Essential Art 2015 (Kenneth Jack Memorial Drawing Exhibition),
Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn, Summer II Exhibition 2014
Drawing; The Essential Art, AGRA Galleries, 2014
Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn, Summer Exhibition 2013
AGRA President's challenge 2013 - Special mention for outstanding work
AGRA Australian Artists On-Line Winter 2012 - Commended 
AGRA Winter 2010 - Commended
Roberts McCubbin Primary School Art Show 2009 - Commended
AGRA Spring 2009 - Highly commended
AGRA Australian Artists On-Line  2009 - commended
Pastel Society of Victoria 2008 - Cityscape - Highly Commended
“Recent Works”, Harlequin artists, AGRA Galleries, Camberwell, November 2008
“Bridging the Gap”, group exhibition, Bridges at Hurstbridge, October 2007
Marysville Primary School Art Show 2007 - Marysville Primary School Award
Roberts-McCubbin Primary School Art show, 2006, 2007 - Best painting under $400