Callum Innes Livres

Callum Innes (b. 1962) is one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation, and one of the few artists to include watercolour as a major part of his practice. a pure land documents a new series of 50 watercolours, completed during lockdown, in 2020.

A publication documenting Scottish artist Callum Innes’s Tondos – round paintings that continue a long tradition in art history and extend the acclaimed artist’s explorations into abstraction, colour, line, shape and form. This richly illustrated publication features an introduction by Jeffrey Grove and an essay by art historian Éric de Chassey.

His large-format paintings always wish to be more than just square surfaces. Although the Scottish painter Callum Innes (*1962 in Edinburgh) has devoted himself and his inimitable brushwork mainly to this clearly delimited format since the 1990s, his Minimalist paintings primarily deal with the thorough exploration of painting. After painting a bar of color, he immerses his brush in turpentine and proceeds to remove what's there. This is often followed by yet another coat and finally, another removal. Innes has steadily created poetic paintings, using different color combinations and intensities, as well as different materials--canvas, watercolor paper, and masonry. Photographs of installations and fascinating details allow readers to sense the effects of Innes's art in a wonderful way. What at first seems to be merely abstract ultimately reveals gorgeous, hypnotic depth. Exhibition: De Pont Museum Tilburg 5.10.2016-26.2.2017