Meg Buick is a painter and printmaker based in East Lothian, Scotland. Her work has a timeless, almost ancient quality. In this film, Meg discusses how she employs a wide range of mediums in her practice and how she draws inspiration from art history, including prehistoric cave paintings, the early Renaissance, and modern abstraction.
0:00 “People often say the work feels ancient”
0:20 “It feels natural to me to keep covering it, and destroying it someway, and bringing it back”
0:51 Introduction
1:06 “I wanted to really learn a practice and learn how to make physical things”
2:00 “I always had drawing on the back burner”
2:47 “A human figure has such a psychological pull for any viewer”
4:04 “It’s more of a landscape than a portrait essentially”
4:20 “I think I’ve always been quite intuitive about materials”
4:38 “Egg Tempera forces you to make the brushmarks thoughtfully”
5:45 “Painting is all about the surface of something that you get, that’s so much your own personal stamp as a painter”
6:10 “Making images with some sort of feeling in them, some kind of energy”
7:00 “When I think of my practice in terms of painting and drawing, I don’t necessarily think of them as separate, I think of them as two practices that flow into each other”
8:37 “Sometimes I’ll start a drawing, just by scribbling for ages, quite hard, with a H pencil”
9:38 “I use Monotype as a starting point and work into it with pastel and other things”
10:43 “If you put a yellow down right at the beginning, that’s going to influence the whole painting”
11:48 “I think so much of painting is about finding out how you want the paint to handle”
13:04 “A lot of what I am doing is slightly nudging the mediums, experimenting with them, trying to do what I want for a particular painting”
13:36 “I’m interested in this slightly parallel landscape, or world that isn’t our world”
16:16 “Probably most artists are probably quite solidarity”
17:13 “It’s easy to get a bit lost in image making, and to spend time drawing, it feeds the image making and kind of grounds it”
18:53 “I tend to use a lot of earth colours”
21:17 “The palette is your mind for the colour, it’s got to be quite clear, quite empty”
22:14 “Some of my sketchbooks sort of are artist books in themselves, in the sense that very painted, worked, I will spend a lot of time in them”
23:44 “I am quite a texture, surface person, I love paper, especially when paper has been slightly scratched back, or partially destroyed, and you are drawing back into it”
25:12 “Sometimes I stick with a drawing, until it works”
26:20 “I will work on something until it goes wrong”
28:36 “If there was a work on the wall, I would probably keep working at it”
30:26 “Best studio day I could have is when I can turn up, and I can start straight away”
33:00 “Sometimes, I even dream about the landscapes in Piero’s paintings, they are so vivid to me”
36:15 “Some artists, I won’t necessarily really connect to their work, or love their work, but there is something about their general spirit that I find inspiring”
36:35 “Don’t get sidetracked by things”
37:25 “Drawing and painting is quite a slow road in a world where everything is so fast”
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Music courtesy of YouTube Audio Library. The music was inspired by the songs Meg and the Jackson’s Team listened to while painting during the shoot.
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