Jack Frame

“The term landscape indicates a humanized relationship to nature, whether this relationship is one of dominion, of self-affirmation through the conquest of nature, or, on the contrary, a desire to transcend and efface the self in the face of nature, as what we since Kant call the sublime.” (Mieke Bal)

“Her green plastic watering can, for her fake Chinese rubber plant, in the fake plastic earth” (Radiohead)

I am often cited as a Romantic painter, working in the landscape tradition of John Constable or Casper David Friedrich. Art depicting nature. But what is nature in the 21st century, what is the Romanic landscape of today?

I aim for my work to express both the control and transcendence imbued within landscape painting. The subjects I depict come from the highly cultivated English landscape. The Blossoms from the orchard are genetic perfection, created to produce the ultimate yield, each tree within the orchard a replica of the other. The Oak is a bystander of this ever-evolving landscape factory, the bystander of time, a symbol of time past, present and future. The Ash is the tree of legend and the victim of the modern world.

Drawings are on neon coloured acrylic sheets, mechanically created and perfect. Yet other subj...

Glasgow School of Art, Painting & Printmaking, 2007


Residencies / Exchanges
Aug 2007-2010 Artist in Residence, Lomond School, Helensburgh

2018 'Study for Life' Veneer Gallery, Glasgow.

2017 'Halo' Joint Alpha Art/ Urbane Arts, Edinburgh.

2016 'Natural Portraits', Fairfax gallery Burnham market/Tunbridge Wells.

2015 'Unnatural Histories', Cube gallery, London,

2015 'Synthetic' Independent production curated by Ariadna Battich.

2010 Scotland Art .com Galleries, London, Glasgow Art Fairs

2010 Francis Iles Gallery, Kent

2010 Strathera Gallery, Perth

2009 Calidoniart, Air Gallery, London

2009 Thompson’s Gallery Marlybone, London

2009 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2009 Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh

2009 Jolomo Awards Shortlist Exhibition, Lloyds TSB Building, Edinburgh

2008, May 2009 Richmond Hill Gallery, London

2009 Thompson’s Gallery, London

2008 Wall Projects, Montrose

2009 Inverarity Vaults, Glasgow

2008 New Faces Exhibition, Glasgow Art Club, Glasgow

2007 Leith Gallery, Edinburgh

2007 Fostering Arts, Standard Building, Glasgow

2007 Exposures Gallery, Glasgow

2007 Degree Show Select, Glasgow School of Art

2007 Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art

2007 Glasgow Print Studio

2007 Student Exhibition, Royal Glasgow Institute

2006 Student exchange Exhibition, California Institute, California