Summary
WHEN I meet John Mackie on the Canongate in Edinburgh, he's talking about a painting he hasn't painted yet. It's a vista he glimpsed on his way here, shouldering his way past the tourists outside John Knox's House. Now he can't wait to get back to his studio and get cracking.
The Scottish painter, now based in Yorkshire, has been finding inspiration like this for more than 30 years, on a sunny day in Montpelier, in Venice at dusk, or in Edinburgh on a rainy winter night. It's all about walking and looking.See the full content of this document
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'Every Corner You Go Round Is a New Adventure'
"Every corner you go round is a new adventure," he says. "If you take the car you miss every little nook and cranny. You never know when your next painting is round the corner."
Mackie has been walking and painting ever since he was a student at Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s. First the streets of Glasgow itself, then through Europe, hitching from town to town, sleeping in a tent by the side of the ...See the full content of this document
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