Colin Mccallum

I studied at Camberwell School of Art London, at that time largely known for producing figurative painterly artists. However, I was influenced by abstract painters, and moved away from the figure. My art developed into large-scale painterly figurative based abstract painting, using oil on canvas, always more tonal than colourist.

Having always lived in London, the energy of a big city has soaked into my being and I began to move away from observational painting to using images from my experience and imagination rather than what was immediately in my field of vision.

I spent several years living and working in Barcelona, here my work began to take another direction, it was not a conscious decision, it just happened. In recent years I moved away from using oils to acrylics and began experimenting with a variety of paints, mostly interference and fluorescent, along with pens and sprays and creating my own stencils, the results pushed me further into another direction.

I had never considered myself a colourist, but as time has passed I have become increasingly more interested in colour and how pigments react with each other. Sometimes choosing to use pure colour from the tube, at other times mixing. The new materials allow me...

Born 1956, Glasgow, Scotland
1976-79
BA (Hons) Degree, Fine Art (Painting), Camberwell School of Art, London

1975-6
Art Foundation Course, Camberwell School of Art, London

Selected Exhibitions 1979 -2019

• Northern Young Contemporaries (prize winner and Granada TV purchase)
• The London Group, Camden Arts Centre, London
• 100 Artists in London, (group show)
• Art of the Urban Now, Small Mansion House Gallery, London
• Interiors, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne Sussex
• CSK Gallery, Eton, Windsor (solo exhibition)
• Whitechapel Open, Brick Lane, London
• Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
• Bruton Street Gallery, Mayfair, London (group show)
• Inaugural Exhibition, Corr Contemporary Art, London (group show)
• “The Motor Show” touring exhibition, group show
• Art at Institute of Physics, Portland Place, London
• Sala Gracia, Barcelona, one-man exhibition
• Tallers Oberts, organised by FAD, Cuitat Vella Barcelona
• Bicha Gallery, London, Christmas mixed exhibition
• Art Fairs: AAF Milan, Italy, Bristol, New York, Chicago IAF, Toronto IAF, Singapore, Belgium,
Stockholm, Battersea, London IAF, Hampstead, Hamburg, Hong Kong, The Hamptons NY, Seoul IAF,
Spectrum Miami, Art Expo New York, Naples Florida,
• Signals, new abstract paintings, solo exhibition 2012, Bicha Gallery London
• B&C, one-man exhibition 2014, Barcelona, Spain 2014
• UK Youth Art Auction, Boisdale Canary Wharf, London (artist dona...