{"product_id":"robert-wemyss-innes-st-monans-slipway-sketch-3-1994","title":"Robert Wemyss Innes - St Monans: Slipway Sketch #3, 1994","description":"\u003cp\u003eA striking early work by Scottish contemporary artist \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Wemyss Innes (b.1964)\u003c\/strong\u003e, painted in 1994 and depicting boats on the slipway at \u003cstrong\u003eSt Monans on the Fife coast\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than treating the harbour conventionally, Innes reduces the boats to powerful overlapping forms. A deep blue hull occupies the left of the composition while the large rust-red and orange bow to the right provides its principal focus. Strong vertical elements suggest masts and boatyard structures, while vigorous passages of blue, turquoise, ochre, crimson and deep red give the work an almost abstract intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Robert Wemyss Innes (Scottish, b.1964)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e St Monans: Slipway Sketch #3\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1994\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mixed media on board\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed verso\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtwork size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 30 × 35 cm (11.8 × 13.8 in)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFramed size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 51 × 55 cm (20.1 × 21.7 in)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVerso:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed and titled handwritten strip reading “R.W. Innes: St. Monans: Slipway Sketch #3. 1994”, together with a typed Robert Innes title label\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Artwork in very good condition. Frame shows handling wear.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePresentation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mounted, framed and under glass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSt Monans and the Fife Coast\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSt Monans, in the East Neuk of Fife, is a historic fishing village whose harbour, boats and slipways provide a natural subject for Innes's interest in the Scottish landscape and coast. Innes has repeatedly returned to Scotland's harbours, islands and coastal landscape, with St Monans appearing within his wider body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Wemyss Innes was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 1964. He studied at Leith School of Art before attending Glasgow School of Art, where published biographical material records tutors including James Robertson and Barbara Rae. Innes graduated in 1994, the same year as the present work, and subsequently established himself as a full-time painter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis career has included exhibitions with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Frames Gallery and galleries elsewhere in Scotland, London and France. His work is represented in collections including Kirkcaldy Art Gallery and Stirling University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crag Bank Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54475409621330,"sku":"CBA-355","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1078\/0904\/6866\/files\/IMG_4082.jpg?v=1788196309","url":"https:\/\/cragbankart.co.uk\/products\/robert-wemyss-innes-st-monans-slipway-sketch-3-1994","provider":"Crag Bank Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}