Sam Cartman
Cartman, who studied painting at Cumbria College of Art and Design, takes a very pure approach to his work, which has been popping up regularly at various venerable Scottish art institutions’ in the last few years and attracting attention from admiring buyers.
He also won one of the two main prizes in last year’s Nairn Open Art competition.
Cartman has a solid approach to his painting which derives from competence as a craftsman who revels in his materials.
There is a poetic spareness to his paintings of wide-open spaces, in the blue-greyness of the skies, or the carefully sculpted buildings which look as if they have been there for all time. Everything and nothing is left to chance. Even the foreground has a solidity which is always there in real time.
Jan Patience, 2010
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