last light 2023 first light 2024

 

last light 2023 - first light 2024, Loch Moidart

Midwinter in the Black Wood of Rannoch

Images copyright Lesley Punton

The Hide

A short film first shown in the solo exhibition, "below, the rocks fell into darkness" at the Studio Pavilion, Glasgow, May - July 2018. The film was shot on super 16mm digital format. Dur. 9'17"

The film records the passing of time in a wildlife hide on the west coast of Scotland. The hide allows the viewer to look upon the landscape through a long, panoramic viewing aperture. It looks out onto the land and water in a location where time is governed by the inexorable regularity of the tide. It’s mid-summer. The wind rifles through leaves, insects hover, and the camera examines the space viewed from the hide, but also of the hide itself. It’s a place that is almost a pause in the landscape, a place to view a pause in the landscape. Nothing happens. We just watch and wait.

below, the rocks plunged into darkness (documentation)

Some documentation of my current show at the Studio Pavilion, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow. The show continues until July 15th, 2018

Below, the rocks plunged into darkness

still from "a darkening" super 16mm digital film, 4'33"

Here's a link to my current exhibition at the studio pavilion at the house for an art lover.
https://www.houseforanartlover.co.uk/arts/exhibitions-projects/studio-pavilion-exhibiton

Thicket No. 1

Roni Horn - Thicket No. 1, 1989-90, Aluminium & Plastic

a view from out of the cloud

Descending out of the cloud on Carn Dearg, Loch Ossian, March 2016

last light, first light III

last light 2015

first light 2016

David Bomberg - in the Cairngorms

David Bomberg, In the Cairngorms, late Summer. 

suilven

a great film of a great hill by James Anderson & Niall Walker (click to expand to full screen as a thumbnail doesn't do it any justice).

signs of spring

signs of spring, (for Judy). L Punton, 2015, archival inkjet print on fabriano 

liath, dearg, dubh.

Pieces of grey, red and black granite found very close to each other by a stream that flows into Loch Ossian, from the slopes of Carn Dearg, whilst making an anti-clockwise walk of the loch in bad weather, March 2015

a glossary of coloured hills

L Punton, archival inkjet print on fabriano, 29.7x42cm, 2015

A glossary of new word paintings gathering some mountains that refer to colour. Thanks to Alec Finlay for the suggestions and dialogue around how to best translate from the Gaelic.

dolomite

L. Punton, light jet print, 36x28cm, F Marino Bianchi - Cima di Mezzo, 2015

pages from a book

a gift (Mt Blanc)

with thanks to R.F.

extract from a conversation

A. Look at that red thing.
L. Where?
A. There.
L. I don't see anything red.
A. (pointing) There.
L. There's nothing red over there.
A. (still pointing) No, over there.
L. I still don't see any red things.
A. (more emphatically, a little frustrated, again pointing) It's there.
L. (pauses) Oh, you mean the low clouds behind that building? They're reddish from the rising sun.
A. Yes. That's it. I didn't know they were clouds. (pauses) They're beautiful.

lunchtime talk at GSA

I'm giving a lunchtime talk at GSA in the Reid Gallery next week talking about my residency in March at Inshriach Bothy. Here's the link.

http://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/gsa-events/events/l/lunchtime-talk-lesley-punton/

8 Ardtornish flowers

Unusually for me, this small bookwork was made more as a reminder of a lovely holiday with some lovely people, rather than being a "serious" part of my practice. I taught the kids (and some of the adults) in my extended family how to make cyanotypes "in the field," exposing them to the Scottish summer sunshine and washing/processing in the open. These are a few of a series of postcards I made once the kids went off to do other things.