‘Walk in the park’ an exhibition of screen prints and oil paintings by Joy Bain, celebrating Callendar Park and some of the wildlife that live here.
This exhibition honours the beauty of nature and Joy’s paintings and screen prints convey how nature is a special part in all our lives, helping to maintain a healthy mind and body,
it is central to our wellbeing.
Callendar Park is very close to Joy’s heart: in the 1970’s she and her sister Norice spent most of their summer holidays here as their gran, Annie Easton stayed in the high flats in Leishman tower.
Pre today’s obsessive mobile and internet use, the two girls revelled in spending every hour they could in the park. Joy tells of how they arrived so early, an attendant let them use the trampolines in the grounds for free.
Only going home at lunchtime to fuel up, it became their playground and they grew familiar with all the different aspects of the park.
Joy’s paintings and screen prints reflect that enduring love of the park: vibrant and accessible, they take you on an imaginative tour of a special and inspiring place and its wildlife. They can act as a bridge to an antidote for the stresses of modern urban living hiding in plain sight just a few steps away.
The works were completed in the last year with funding from Creative Scotland and the wonderful institution that is Glasgow Print studio.
Joy Bain was born in Falkirk in 1966. She studied Printed textiles and Printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (Dundee) graduating in 1989.
She was shortlisted for the Scottish Textile Awards ‘Scotfree’, at the Kensington Exhibition Centre in London and sold her work to international designers, Timney Fowler.
Joy is a contemporary Scottish artist based in Glasgow. She specialises in screen printing, oil painting and woodcut. She has exhibited across the UK and produced many bespoke commissions for international clients including Tunnocks.
Her spirit is so evident in her work.
Direct and vibrant the work also feels timely. When the world seems to be in constant crisis, the mindfully observed moments visible in Joy’s work for Callendar Park can be seen as a resistance. Spaces that feel optimistic and calm whilst being acutely aware of the wider world.
Important physical spaces and important work.
Joy has a studio at WASPS in Glasgow where she paints in oils. A member of Glasgow Print Studio she leads the woodcut courses using the Eagle Press.
She has exhibited her work in Glasgow, London and at the S.E. Feinman Gallery in New York, and has her work in collections with the Collins Gallery, New Hall Cambridge, Hughson Gallery, Glasgow Print Studio and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
