TateShots: Callum Innes studio visit

TateShots travelled to Edinburgh to meet Callum Innes, one of the artists featured in Tate Britain's new Watercolour exhibition. Innes allowed us to film him at work in his studio, revealing just how contemporary the watercolour medium can be, as he pushes the paint to its limits.

Watercolour is at Tate Britain from February 16 to 21 August 2011.

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[KEPHALLE]

@PicassoStar1 "your video": i'm not Callum Innes, nor a Tate employee hehehe. anyway, sure, i'd like to be economically indipendent as an artist and make a living with it, but 'til that day, if it will ever come, i'll just make art because it's one of the few things that makes my life worth living :-D

[PicassoStar1]

@KEPHALLE I don't feel any bitterness - I really don't. I have my own studio and I work my art every day, perhaps the same as you. In terms of envy? Yes, what artist wouldn't want to be financially independent and fee to work on their art until consumed by it. Your video gives the impression of an artist that has vast space to work and plenty of time to work, which rarely exists without a measure of wealth. You are correct, of course, the day of the bohemian artist has vanished.

[KEPHALLE]

@PicassoStar1 i feel some bitterness and envy in your comment, wich is totally inappropriate here imho. i'm unemployed now but still i paint with what i have, the materials i can afford and squeeze the best out of it! if you want to paint and get better each time there's no excuse, you just go for it. and rememer: a great deal of artists teach in school or college, so they do not have all the time you'd expect, the time of the bohemian artist is over.

[PicassoStar1]

Don't know enough about this artist to know if he's rolling in the bucks or not, but I am always disillusioned by artists who have substantial residual income from another source and don't have to "work" for a living and can dabble in art until they get good at it. Some artists produce thousands of paintings because they have the time on their hands, while us working stiffs plug along as best we can.

[nn8nn]

very inspiring..thanks

[jhalfaro]

@spiralisedcat the more money you make the more room you can afford lol :P

[spiralisedcat]

His friggin studios massive!! I paint in a 6x8ft room.I guess the better you are the more room you deserve.

[leanlois]

fantastic!

[KEPHALLE]

finally a good video about this great artist! thank you so much!