Scottish colleagues

Please click to view Four beautiful etchings by Scottish artist colleagues / friends of Segan Each are available for purchase for the holidays!
Please click to enlarge The reproduction seen above is from a photocopy of the original drawing and not from the original drawing.	ISLE OF SKYE: ROCKS & OLD SHED BY SIDE OF ROAD 1985. Ink on white drawing paper. Approx. 12 H x 18 inches W I visited the Isle of Skye in June '85 with my then girlfriend Heidi Drucker. We rented a car & drove around, ooh'ing and photographing and the people and building-less landscape. One notable sight was a classic heavy-duty red British phone booth - in the middle of nowhere, no buildings , just a lot of sheep milling around. Maybe they were expecting a trunk call on the old tele? We stopped by the side of a road somewhere where I sketched the rocks and an old shed seen in this drawing. Collection of Robert Whittet, Missouri
Please click to enlarge	ST ANDREWS CASTLE 1987-03 Pencil, colored pencil, gouache, ink. 18" H x 17 3/4" W Notes at bottom: Segan 10 IV '87 Walls of St Andrews castle (drawn inside niche in wall by waterside = beach on lower right = water on upper right = long grass on slope below fence. Collection: St. Andrews Scottish Guesthouse, Jerusalem, Israel. (Planning to visit Israel and/or Palestine and looking for a great place to stay in Jerusalem? Check out this hotel. It's entirely smoke free - wihch is rare for a hotel in Israel & Palestine - which has one of the worlds highest rates of cigarette smoking, disease and tobacco caused deaths. The Guesthouse is owned by the Church of Scotland. They also have a guest house in Tiberias and run the only English-language school for elementary through high school age students in Jaffa, a mixed Arab & Jewish city by Tel Aviv.
Please click images to enlarge	BIRD CARCASS & BONE STUDIES, STONEHAVEN, SCOTLAND '87 1987 One of the drawings has 9 old postage stamps and an Aberdeen bus receipt. The other drawing has ½ of a gold embossed sticker at bottom. Drawn at my studio-flat in Aberdeen from small sketches I did on-site on the incline overlooking the beach by Dunnotar Castle, which is about 15 miles south of Aberdeen. The sketch book sketches were of a dead bird I found on the beach. While the bottom drawing looks darker than the one above it, they're drawn on identical white drawing paper. Each: 18 H x 21 ½ inches W with matching frames. Ink, gouache, postage stamps & rubber stamping $2,000 (purchase as a set)
Please click to enlarge	ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS, ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND 1987 Drypoint with hand-coloring with colored pencils. Proofed from one plate printed three times. Public Collection: Portland Art Museum, Oregon Private collection: Joseph Wheelwright
Please click to enlarge	HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE, ABERDEEN 1987. Twice proofed drypoint - one proof a counterproof (hence: why the images are reversed!) One or two proofs were printed; whereabouts unknown
Please click to enlarge 1987 Size: 37 H x 50 inches W Beautifully and uniquely framed with hand-cut mat sections and beautifully patinaed wood moulding	THE OLD BOID NEEDED A HOLIDAY! 1987 During the 5 months I lived in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1987 at Belmont near Union (I lived in Seattle at Belmont & Union, funny coincidence) I'd go downstairs to get my mail and visit Dave Milne, a Scottish jeweler whose jewelry repair shop was downstairs. A true "lover of quality vice," we'd smoke cigs & shoot the breeze about life, art, culture, politics, music (he frequently was playing tapes of Leonard Cohen), the usual stuff. I'd try to decipher the completely unintelligible Aberdonian dialect of the local townspeople who'd walk into the shop to leave the jewelry repairs Dave worked on. One day I asked Dave if I could borrow the stuffed golden pheasant on a metal stand in the shop's corner. A friend of his who worked for British Air had given it to him. The old bird had a British Airways luggage handlers tag tied 'round the neck. "Sure, Ken, take it away, it could use a holiday!" I set up a large sheet of drawing paper on which I did three drawings of the bird. the full figure profile facing left (center), the tush-end view (above), and the profile head facing right (upper right). Somewhere along the way I thought of "documenting" the "loan" of the bird. Dave would "witness" it. We documented this with some PILS beer, a popular Czech beer. Then I'd have a whole bunch of Aberdonians "Witness the Document," each with a witness number: #1, #2 and on on. Among the witnesses were a Scottish policeman, local school pupils and The Two Fine Blokes who ran the music shop down the hall from Dave's shop. Getting the signature of The Sheriff Clerk of Aberdeen took 3 visits to arrange. Other signers included The Danish Consul and the Dutch Consul, Aberdeen... an Official from the Scottish Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries; and The Honourable Lord Mayor of Aberdeen. When I showed up at his office with the artwork, he was sporting Official Fancy Garb, and an Aberdeenshire District Council Press Photographer documented his signing of the Old Boid That Needed a Holiday. Since I left Aberdeen in '87 Dave closed the repair shop and went into full-time, authentic very exquisite "down-home" Scottish jewelry making.... creating exquisite & beautiful Scottish gold rings and other jewelry. When you visit Dave's website tell him you heard about his work through The Old Bird...if you wanna practice your faux-Brooklynese say BOID Dave Milne: http://www.davidmilne-goldsmith.com A benefactor or benefactors are sought to present the work to the United States State Department for the "Art-in-Embassies" program. My vision & goal is to have it on display at the United States Consulate in Edinburgh, Scotland. $3,000.
Please click to enlarge Three drawings mounted on wood frame, with accoutrements.	SCOTTISH BLUEBELL 1987 The artwork was approximately seven feet across x two and a half feet in height. The rope, seen at bottom center-right, from the Aberdeen beach, probably killed it, presumably from the oil and salt water. Among the things inset into the work was a baked "Hi-Spot Cafe" dinner roll, which the artists girlfriend at the time, Heidi, gave him as a snack for the long trip to Aberdeen: By car from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C., then a 9 hour night flight over the Arctic to London's Heathrow Airport, bus to the tube, then a tube (subway) ride to a London train station for a long overnight trip to northeast Scotland. "The Hi-Spot Cafe bakery roll was petrified by the time I arrived in Aberdeen." The wooden boat: Heidelberg, and the carved elephant & bird were bought at a charity thrift in Aberdeen. Everything, including the etched etching plate (top left), went into a dumpster in St. Andrews, courtesy of the artists art student friends Mat Fahrenholz and Deb Schultz. Many years passed before one of them fessed up as to what'd happened to the artwork.
Please click to enlarge	AN ORIGINAL DIAGRAMMATICE TERRE-TERRE MAPA-ZAPA WHOOPAH! 1987 Mixed media drawing mounted on a color etching, and a postage stamp 30" H x 40" W Public Collection: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland. The reproduction of the artwork courtesy of the Aberdeen Art Galleries & Aberdeen District Council, Scotland, copyright owner to the artwork image.
Please click to enlarge	ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND 1987 Watercolor, ink on torn paper. Approx. 14" H x 19" W Corporate Collection: R. H. Reel Co., Seattle
Please click to enlarge	TAKING ABERDEEN BEACH WALKS, SCOTLAND, '87 Ink, pencil, and Royalty 30 1/2 height x 22 1/2 inches width The drawing section on the right I drew in a sketchbook in pencil at the Aberdeen beach where I sat facing one of those famous British - beach breakers - that jut out perpendicularly (ouch, what a word!) from the beach. The section on the left includes my drawing of a wooden model ship [The Heidelberg] purchased at one of those famous British charity thrifts, the one the Heidelberg came from aiding Third World Africans. Other objects I drew included shells and other nifty found-objects I found on my daily Aberdeen beach walks. Artwork Fit-like for Royalty! $2,500.
Please click to enlarge	DUNNOTAR CASTLE, SCOTLAND 1987 India ink, colored ink, colored pencil Paper: 22 1/4 X 25 1/8 inches Framed size: 25 H x 29 inches W Drawn on-site on the beach...the castle is about 15 miles south of Aberdeen...it was a typically cold and blustery Scottish day...lacking a really long piece of drawing paper and a long matching drawing board, the castle was drawn in "stereoscopic" perspective. My pens kept clogging up and some of the exasperation with that made its way onto the drawing at the bottom centre: "Beanpods!" etc. There are a number of photos of Dunnotar Castle on the Internet....type in Dunnotar Castle in a search engine, and I think some paintings by Scottish & English painters, too. $3,500.
Please click to enlarge	ABERDEEN HARBOUR AT NIGHT, SCOTLAND 1987 Pencil, ink, colored pencil Size: Collection of Wojteich & Roseanna Bochenek, Cupar-Fife
Please click to enlarge	ABERDEEN HARBOUR 1987. Ink on paper. Approx. 10 H x 16 inches W Collection of Ellen Terry Bruce
Please click to enlarge	LANDSCAPE BY CUPAR-FIFE 1987. Watercolor. Approx 16 H x 20 inches W Private collection - whereabouts unknown.
Please click to enlarge	(detail of) PORTRAIT OF STANLEY FAHRENHOLZ, 64 NORTH STREET, ST. ANDREWS 1987. Ink over pencil on paper, 20 H x 16 inches W I met Stanley several times in '85 and '87. By then he had long been retired as a shoe cobbler in St. Andrews,. He was raised in Lwow, Poland (Ukraine since the end of WWII). When I knew him, he was ill with heart disease, smoked like a chimney and loved meat and chocolate. Other elderly Poles, long time residents of St. Andrews, would visit every day, and in the blue haze of cigarette smoke, they would discuss and argue about their patriotic wartime service. He died a few years later. Collection of the St Andrews Scottish Guesthouse, Jerusalem
Please click to enlarge	ON THE RANGE IN CUPAR, AUGUST 16, 1987 1987. Ink, colored pencil, watercolour on paper. 17 5/8 H x 23 1/2 inches W Note the "ready to eat baked chicken" towards upper right. Collection of Wojteich & Roseanna Bochenek, Cupar-Fife
Please click to enlarge	THIS IS TO CERTIFY, BY JOVE! A GOOD SHOW BRITS! Drawn in 1988 as a blockbuster sequel to "The Old Boid Needed a Holiday," several "Brits-in-exile" living in Seattle "witnessed," and there are additional designated signatory spaces as well as slots for less famous signers. The piece was shelved since then. One designated signer Samuel Stroum, who didn't sign it, has since passed on; and the Alhadeff family of race track fame since sold the race track. It's evident my intent was to try & sell it to Lloyd's Bank, which, following a merger in the years since '87, is now Lloyds TSB. The buildings, which I like a lot, were inspired by some small Aberdeen building sketches I'd done in Aberdeen & brought back with me. 24 H x 36 inches W Ink, watercolor. $799.99