"The simple beauty of Andrew Mackenzie's most recent paintings belies the time and effort that goes into making them....These interventions into the anonymous, urban treescapes capture a tension between abstract pattern and reality, the point where nature meets human.... Memory and romance are in a dialogue with the necessities of modern life and its own particular aesthetic beauty."
Ailsa Boyd, the List

News - November 2009

Seven Short Sails
Andrew Mackenzie has 3 drawings online, as part of Seven Short Sails. Initiated by artist Pat Law, based in Heriot in the Scottish Borders, Seven Short Sails is a creative chinese whispers...the starting point - 1 sailing boat, 7 short voyages and 7 artists. All in northern latitudes. There are cultural similarities and parallels between artists living at these latitudes; ways of living and seeing dictated by climate, daylight, geography and tradition, and this series of responses will unwittingly reflect those elements.

7 artists have responded to 7 sets of material which took the form of sketches, stories, paintings, photographs, conversations, and the outcome will be shown here. These responses will be passed onto another 7 artists and so on... for a total of 7 phases/50 artists.

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