Double Vision | Ian Westacott and Raymond Arnold | March 2020 | Kilmorack Gallery

Double Vision

Ian Westacott & Raymond Arnold

Double Vision

14th March - 18th April 2020

Ian Westacott & Raymond Arnold

a twenty-year collaboration

Foreword

There is more than ‘double vision’ in the combined etchings of Raymond Arnold and Ian Westacott. There is a synergy in the work of the two long-time friends.

The work is an on-going project in which Westacott and Arnold produce a copperplate each, and then print them on top of one another; a stereoscopic process that deepens our feeling of space, time and dimensions. They make us look afresh at Arnold and Westacott’s subjects: trees, sculpture, glimpses of old gardens, a suit of armour… signs of life caught by a double set of eyes.

These echoes of the past are further enhanced by the magic of the etching process - the permanence of the etched mark, a moment caught, but somehow more when printed. Ink sinks deeply into the paper in a copperplate etching and this creates an almost three dimensional effect that is mesmeric.

The joy of co-creation is also expressed, and the importance of friendship and the fragility of our world.

Arnold and Westacott first met at College in Australia in the 1970s and since then have gone out of their way to meet once a year to draw, print and make collaborative work. This exhibition is the result of a forty-year artistic kinship and it is hugely exciting to show it at Kilmorack Gallery.

Tony Davidson, March 2020 Geology, Durness, 2003/4 etching 30cm x 40cm

Blasted Rogart Oak, 2006/20 etching 60cm x 70cm

Snow Groves, Mount Field, 2020 etching 60cm x 69cm

Snow Groves, Mount Field Black, 2020 etching 60cm x 69cm

Sarcophagus, Dornoch Cathedral etching 66cm x 24cm

Soldier Memorial, Dornoch etching 50cm x 33cm

Lake Mungo and Black Suns, 2018/20 etching 40cm x 108cm

Mildura Sculpture, Flugelman, 2017 etching 60cm x 45cm

Historic Lady de Coverley Vine, Mildura, 2014/17 etching 45cm x 60cm

Prisoner’s Helmet, 2004/5 etching | 30cm x 22cm

Wrestlers, Louvre 2005 etching | 50cm x 40cm

Lachlan and Finn’s Toys etching 61cm x 120cm

Cromarty Buoy. 2011 etching 24cm x 33cm

Vaucamson’s Loom, Paris, 2003 etching 40cm x 50cm

Bennet’s Wallaby, 2006 etching | 30cm x 45cm

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