Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery

The golden boy of Scottish abstract art returns to Frith Street Gallery in the heart of Soho with an exhibition of new work. This contemporary British art exhibition in London follows artist Callum Innes’s participation at Generation last year, where a selection of his paintings were shown at the Scottish National Gallery as part of a programme celebrating 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland. You might also recognise him from the Callum Innes Tate Britain Watercolour exhibition in 2011.
Frith Street gallery exhibition
Innes’s colourful paintings from his Exposed series are made by ‘un-painting’ as well as painting; a process he has made his own over the past 20 years. Layers of oil paint are applied onto the canvas and gently dissolved away with turpentine, leaving traces of luminous pigment. Central to this process is a sense of fragility and tension – a fine line held between control and chaos.
In addition to the Exposed series, works from Innes’s Untitled and Resonance series are also on view at Frith Street Gallery, London, which illustrate the artist’s tendency to work alternately on a number of different paintings at once.