{"id":2461926,"date":"2026-06-16T12:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2461926"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:30:48","slug":"people-often-say-the-work-feels-ancient-artist-insights-meg-buick-jacksons-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/people-often-say-the-work-feels-ancient-artist-insights-meg-buick-jacksons-art\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;People often say the work feels ancient.\u201d &#8211; Artist Insights Meg Buick | Jackson&#8217;s Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MOamwGXktjw?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>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. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 \u201cPeople often say the work feels ancient\u201d<br \/>\n0:20 \u201cIt feels natural to me to keep covering it, and destroying it someway, and bringing it back\u201d<br \/>\n0:51 Introduction<br \/>\n1:06 \u201cI wanted to really learn a practice and learn how to make physical things\u201d<br \/>\n2:00 \u201cI always had drawing on the back burner\u201d<br \/>\n2:47 \u201cA human figure has such a psychological pull for any viewer\u201d<br \/>\n4:04 \u201cIt&#8217;s more of a landscape than a portrait essentially\u201d<br \/>\n4:20 \u201cI think I&#8217;ve always been quite intuitive about materials\u201d<br \/>\n4:38 \u201cEgg Tempera forces you to make the brushmarks thoughtfully\u201d<br \/>\n5:45 \u201cPainting is all about the surface of something that you get, that\u2019s so much your own personal stamp as a painter\u201d<br \/>\n6:10 \u201cMaking images with some sort of feeling in them, some kind of energy\u201d<br \/>\n7:00 \u201cWhen I think of my practice in terms of painting and drawing, I don\u2019t necessarily think of them as separate, I think of them as two practices that flow into each other\u201d<br \/>\n8:37 \u201cSometimes I\u2019ll start a drawing, just by scribbling for ages, quite hard, with a H pencil\u201d<br \/>\n9:38 \u201cI use Monotype as a starting point and work into it with pastel and other things\u201d<br \/>\n10:43 \u201cIf you put a yellow down right at the beginning, that\u2019s going to influence the whole painting\u201d<br \/>\n11:48 \u201cI think so much of painting is about finding out how you want the paint to handle\u201d<br \/>\n13:04 \u201cA lot of what I am doing is slightly nudging the mediums, experimenting with them, trying to do what I want for a particular painting\u201d<br \/>\n13:36 \u201cI&#8217;m interested in this slightly parallel landscape, or world that isn\u2019t our world\u201d<br \/>\n16:16 \u201cProbably most artists are probably quite solidarity\u201d<br \/>\n17:13 \u201cIt&#8217;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\u201d<br \/>\n18:53 \u201cI tend to use a lot of earth colours\u201d<br \/>\n21:17 \u201cThe palette is your mind for the colour, it&#8217;s got to be quite clear, quite empty\u201d<br \/>\n22:14 \u201cSome 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\u201d<br \/>\n23:44 \u201cI 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\u201d<br \/>\n25:12 \u201cSometimes I stick with a drawing, until it works\u201d<br \/>\n26:20 \u201cI will work on something until it goes wrong\u201d<br \/>\n28:36 \u201cIf there was a work on the wall, I would probably keep working at it\u201d<br \/>\n30:26 \u201cBest studio day I could have is when I can turn up, and I can start straight away\u201d<br \/>\n33:00 \u201cSometimes, I even dream about the landscapes in Piero\u2019s paintings, they are so vivid to me\u201d<br \/>\n36:15 \u201cSome artists, I won\u2019t necessarily really connect to their work, or love their work, but there is something about their general spirit that I find inspiring\u201d<br \/>\n36:35 \u201cDon\u2019t get sidetracked by things\u201d<br \/>\n37:25 \u201cDrawing and painting is quite a slow road in a world where everything is so fast\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shop art materials on our website: https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/?utm_campaign=ain_meg_buick&#038;utm_source=youtube&#038;utm_medium=organicsocial&#038;utm_content=youtube_social_organic_video_to_ecom<\/p>\n<p>Read our blog: https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/28\/artist-insights-meg-buick\/?utm_campaign=ain_meg_buick&#038;utm_source=youtube&#038;utm_medium=organicsocial&#038;utm_content=youtube_social_organic_video_to_blog<\/p>\n<p>Follow Meg on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/megbuickart\/?hl=en<\/p>\n<p>Follow Meg on YouTube: @MegBuickArt <\/p>\n<p>Discover Meg&#8217;s website: https:\/\/megbuick.co.uk\/https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/megbuickart\/?hl=en<\/p>\n<p>Music courtesy of YouTube Audio Library. The music was inspired by the songs Meg and the Jackson&#8217;s Team listened to while painting during the shoot.<\/p>\n<p>#eggtempera #artist #art #behindthescenes<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MOamwGXktjw\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Buick is a painter and printmaker based in East Lothian, Scotland. Her work has a timeless, almost ancient quality. 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