Alex. Nisbet
A Creative Journey

I have always been fascinated by drawing and mark making and as a child I drew, painted and made things. My Father was a talented musician with his own very successful Scottish Country Dance Band and my particular creative journey also started out in music, albeit playing in a rock band in the 60's/70's !

I wanted to go to Art School and in 1974 I was accepted into Edinburgh College of Art to study Drawing and Painting, while there I was fortunate to meet and be taught by Dennis Peploe, Elizabeth Blackadder, James Cumming, George Donald and David Evans. 

Today I still make music and paint full time, from the 70's to today I have been lucky enough to keep both creative forces on board, they are my ying and my yang, if there is an underlying theme to my work it is just that, contrast, balance and the forces of nature.

Newtons Third Law - 'every action has an equal and opposite reaction' generally underpins the way I work and the end product I achieve. I like that the physical world is in balance and I will always try to reach a compositional balance in an image, that image may very often start with a deliberate and conscious imbalance as a means to tip it into the 'unknown'. This way I feel that I push myself to explore the very nature of picture making and painting in particular.

I still get excited by the endless possibilities that flow from a brush loaded with paint, I resist pure abstraction and choose to paint and make images of the world around us, I am inspired by the ordinary and the extraordinary, hoping to capture an enduring moment, a moment in time.

I hope you enjoy the selection of work on show here. If you have any queries or questions then please contact me on the site contact link above, thank you.

Alexander Nisbet