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Daniel Martin Fairbairn

Artwork by Daniel Martin Fairbairn
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Who is he?

My name is Daniel Fairbairn, Father, Husband and enthusiastically expressive artist. 

 


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It's close!
It's close!
about 8 years ago
Beginnings end..
Beginnings end..
about 8 years ago

Here's the result of last nights session, inspired by my good friend and exceptional photographer Kate

Abstract night
Abstract night
about 8 years ago

Sometimes it's the right thing to improvise and follow your feelings, and on this occasion I did just that.

Dawn...
Dawn...
about 8 years ago
Working, in progress
Working, in progress
about 8 years ago
Good morning
Good morning
about 8 years ago
Having impulsive fun....
Having impulsive fun....
about 8 years ago

And so that is how this painting arrived. Late at night/ early in the morning, coffee drunk and a coiled spring unwound as a finished canvas is lifted from the easel, I then decided to stand up and paint this wee guy.

Getting set for the exhibition
Getting set for the exhibition
about 8 years ago

I've been having some wonderful moments in the studio recently, letting go and trying something new. It's interesting to be in that frame of mind, and to work instinctively. 

Commission. Permission to play
Commission. Permission to play
about 8 years ago

Once I had found this painting, it felt like I had finally laid spinning wheels to the road, It was an incredible energy. Painting it has been a wonderful journey, and I've learned a great deal from creating this piece. Fiona and Brinny are in love with it, and I couldn't have hoped for a better response. 

...and breathe.
about 8 years ago

While all this was going on, I had another sale on the site as another customer placed an order for a large print of Last Light. This convinced me I deserved a dram.

Late exchange..The journey of a canvas
Late exchange..The journey of a canvas
about 8 years ago

This is always a good and a bad time. It's good because the work at the canvas you've been painting is done, and for a moment you can catch your breath, maybe stay in bed and sleep instead of stay up late painting, and wake up feeling rested. 

Pass the coffee, with extra coffee.....
about 8 years ago

I think that may be why this painting in particular makes me feel quite emotional. The buyer fell in love with it immediately. That kind of reaction from someone about your art, which is tied to so many of your own emotions, fear, accomplishment, enjoyment, struggle, joy, creates such a palpable reaction in yourself

Some proofs of my first batch of prints.

...and PAINT!!

June 11, 2016

It's been a fantastic two weeks or so since I updated this blog. A lot has happened and it's more than a little surreal.

I decided to increase my profile by running a competition on my Facebook page. This entailed an entrant to choose from one of 5 photographs I had taken, and then sharing the album. The idea was to Like the photo you'd most like to see painted, and if it won, you stood the chance of being picked to win the resulting painting.

The response was incredible, and I'd had almost 2000 people engage with the post in the first 12 hours. It was so exciting to think that those people were seeing my work, and showing their friends. Something like this would've been impossible 20 years ago. 

A week later I was feverishly painting the winning image, and congratulating the winner on her good fortune. The painting has since been completed and is being proofed by Elgin Gallery and Framers. who provided me with the proofs of the prints you see in the photo above. 

At the same time this was happening, my work had been shared with Jodie Bews, owner and curator of Everlong Art Studio and Gift Shop in Alford. She had been thinking of having a monthly featured artist, and approached me to see if I'd be interested in being the first one, in July. After I'd bitten her hand off, I took the drive up with two paintings in the ponderous Campervan. 
Jodie was lovely, enthusiastic and experienced in working within this business. It was great to meet her and to see all the various creative pieces she had collected from other local artists. So with that agreed upon, I drove off with a huge smile on my face and had a lay-by dinner in the van, with the evening sunlight glinting off the bright surface of the River Don, planning my next group of paintings for July. 

A few days passed and I was putting some finishing touches to the Facebook painting, and I got a reply to an old message I'd sent to Lesley Ann Parker from Leap Gallery in Rothes. 

She wanted to know if I'd like to visit her, as she'd like to see my work. Yeah, I was excited. Back in the van and off to Rothes. Her gallery is gorgeous. Very spacious and airy, which allows you to feel you have the space to take in the stunning paintings she has. Douglas Heggie, Chris Sharp and Ian Faulkner. Artists who's work stops you in your tracks and makes you wonder how they crafted such incredible images from paint and brushes. 

I got some good advice from Lesley, and I will return with some completed work as soon as I can, as her gallery looks set to be very busy. 

And so I ended up in Elgin Gallery and Framers, once again talking up a storm with Jean and Andrew, telling them all my news. It felt good to see them again and to share all that had happened since my first visit. Then I saw my prints and I'm not ashamed to say I felt a lump in my throat. It was as if it had suddenly become real. Like I'd become a serious Artist. Which sounds laughable, but here was a finished product I had (mostly) created. It was overwhelming. The clarity was stunning, and if you were prevented from seeing the paper outwith the image, you'd swear it was a canvas. I couldn't wait to have more, to sign them and send them off to new homes. 

Got to sell some first, but that'll happen soon enough....

 

 

 

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