Inner sound studio5/2/2023 ![]() ![]() I had been aware of Schueler’s work since coming to live in Scotland in the 1980’s, but was introduced to his memoir “The Sound of Sleat: A Painter’s Life”, by a friend after restoring my studio near Gairloch a few years ago. My childhood in Canada was certainly formative, but coming to live in the North West of Scotland has been nothing short of transformative. Like Schueler, I was drawn to this part of the North-West of Scotland and here I found it. I was certain that once here, I would also discover a freedom and an authentic visual language to explore and express my own deep identification with nature, which seems to be every Canadian’s birthright. As a Canadian, I also yearned to go further into “the North”, always searching for that, perhaps, mythical place where I might find it. Like Jon Schueler, I came to Scotland as a North American whose childhood was spent on the shores of the Great Lakes. It seemed a great opportunity to celebrate the recently formalised cultural links between Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and Gairloch Museum, where one part of this Inner Sound Exhibition is being held. Jon was an American painter who lived and painted on the West Coast of Scotland for many years and whose centenary is now being marked with a Symposium and Exhibition being held at The University of the Highlands and Islands' Gaelic College, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Skye, during May and June 2016. The occasion for mounting this exhibition is, in part, to help honour the centenary of Jon Schueler, whose work and writing have greatly inspired me. It seemed the right time and occasion, to do this now and in a small way, to thank Jon Schueler for his vision and his words, which have resonated for me and still do today, for so many artists." "My intention has always been to exhibit this body of work as an ensemble, in the context of the place that has inspired it.
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