Although the title of Jock McFadyen's latest solo exhibition is Made In Hackney, where he has been living and working since the 1960s, the roots of this singular artist's vision lie firmly in his native Scotland.
Although the title of Jock McFadyen's latest solo exhibition is Made In Hackney, where he has been living and working since the 1960s, the roots of this singular artist's vision lie firmly in his native Scotland.
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Jock McFadyen’s landscape paintings span his adopted home of London and his roots in Scotland to striking effect, writes Jan Patience
Pinning down the landscape he encounters on a day's march – be it in Orkney or in the east end of London – has consumed McFadyen since the early 1990s, when he was commissioned to design the sets for Kenneth MacMillan's last ballet, The Judas Tree, at the Royal Opera House in London. Prior to this point, the self-described realist painter, who studied at Chelsea School of Art from 1973-1977, was known as a figurative painter. McFadyen describes these early works as "witty, schematic and self-referential - They were about the irony of being a painter, a bit jokey."
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