John Slavin

Scottish expressionist landscape painter on the Isle of Skye 1993-2010, and in the Pyrenees Orientales, 2007-2012. Recent works are emotive interpretations of the rivers, gorges, forests, cascades and peaks of Languedoc. After exhibiting successfully in the Royal Scottish Academy of Fine Art (Nov-Jan 2013), John Slavin's current work was shown at Durham University 2-17 March 2013, presented by The Sutton Gallery at Collingwood College, Durham University. ‘The Art of John Slavin’ is the subject of four poems written by Professor Monika Kostera, University of Warsaw: Pictures of anarchy stopped by the eye Shift when the watcher turns away * Roots, branches and rocks betwixt and between the solar storms * Shadows and light bustling revealing the Earth unwatched memory * The way sunwards, let loose in colours Cathartic Vallespir