Wedding Season

Apologies, not too much to report. It's wedding season and I'm in Scotland - justification I would say. So far, I've nearly set myself on fire attempting to fire throw on the Isle of Lewis and even earlier fell over holding a baby - impressive....

However, two great pieces that are available for sale and in the Festival Exhibition in Edinburgh at Scotland Art on St. Stephen Street, Edinburgh. Get there fast before I give them away as wedding gifts - goddam, or just get married and introduce yourselves...

Both big favourites of mine, and cool that they both hold big and great memories for me of both New York and London where they were each made.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the festival in Edinburgh in August really should - nothing quite like it.

Over and oot.

The Bouncing Brazilian!

Not one to rest on my laurels, I am busying myself with preparing the work for my next show in London in the autumn. Although mainly focusing now on boxers, I am also making a few pieces based on some photography I did on my recent trip to Formentera where I had the pleasure to meet a new model, the super brave Brazilian high jumper Otavio Junqueira Vilela who threw himself off some incredible cliffs for me with the backdrop of Ibiza behind. Amazing!

Gallery Girls Reunited!

Many thanks to everyone who came along to support at the opening at the Union Gallery last Thursday - it was a great night and I was delighted to be reunited with my dear friends the gallery girls team who I worked with many moons ago and still have as much fun with. We have not lost any of our joie de vivre despite advancing years!

I am really proud of the work for this show. Although perhaps less commercial than previous exhibitions, I feel it marks a real progression in thinking and has lead to the new work based on boxing which is coming next and will prove to be the most challenging work I have done to date.

You can see the show at www.uniongallery.co.uk. Look under my name in the artists section to see all the work.

Exhibition Preview - Thursday 1st July

Patsy McArthur/ Dylan Lisle

Exhibition Preview

Thursday 1st July 6-8pm

Union Gallery, Broughton Street, Edinburgh
www.uniongallery.co.uk

http://www.uniongallery.co.uk/index.php/exhibitions/

R.I.P. Lido The Scooter

My dear friend and fashion entrepreneur Anna Reig Florensa has been hosting me this week in the fantabulous island of Formentera where she has been indulging my passion for bikes! We have been roaring around very well dressed on a 17 year old moped called Lido, which very sadly today has given up the ghost. Which in some ways I feel is a good thing, since I generally have accidents when on this island.

We fell into a bit of a hole - quite literally - on my first evening and have quite a few scars to prove it. And no idea of how they came about. Having retraced our steps-chugs, we are still not much wiser. We did find Lido eventually, although a couple of calls to the emergency services logged on the phone suggest that something untoward befell us..

Fingers crossed I get out of here and back to the motherland alive next week!

Show Down

The Final Reckoning. Should be a good one. Please try to make it if you can.

Partner In Crime

A wee snap of my good self and my tremendously talented partner in crime, Caroline Walker in conference in her studio in London. She has a fondness for the dark side, like myself, but chooses ageing, scantily clad females in interiors as opposed to fully clad males in the middle of nothing, like me. She will be showing soon in the illustrious Marlborough Fine Art in August.

Such is my admiration for her work, I even try to match my footwear to her paintwork when I visit!

We are hatching a plan to make a research trip to LA and Vegas for a few weeks in the autumn, all being well.

See creative accomplices for more of her fabulous work.