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34 | www.westendermagazine.com When Out The Hellish Legion Sallied ©Nichol Wheatley presented opportunity to colour the mind, a fertile ground for learning – chef, blacksmith, barman, bouncer, building site labourer, each offered an eye for study and a possibility for the hands on practical. All the while Wheatley continued to draw, and it was just 7 years after leaving Art School that he founded a commercial art company – Perfect Circle. A name that rose from an act of the Florentine painter and draughtsman Giotto (b.1266) who was reputed to have drawn a perfect circle of red paint in one brushstroke at the request of the Pope, as a measure of his skill. For Perfect Circle, a small team of artists were challenged to problem solve, project manage people, space and materials and budgets – a wonderful nod to the Renaissance studio. The client list grew quickly, from set designs for film and television to private and public commissions. The Blue Nile’s Paul Buchanan was in fact one of the wellwishers who stopped by the day we met, and Wheatley briefly told me about their collaboration for Kelvingrove Station, a piece that he is extremely proud of. ‘Translating ideas through two different skill sets was exciting and is a fantastic challenge,’ he recounts, ‘yet we knew with absolute confidence that it would work.’ It was also interesting to learn that Wheatley’s ‘Tam O Shanter’ was first discussed with Òran Mór’s owner Colin Beattie some 12 years previous. At the time he was working with Alasdair Gray on the ceiling of the building and it took some years for the commission to bear fruit. On visiting the exhibition, Gray I have no doubt was impressed by his friend’s achievement although Wheatley did recount, with a smile that he thought there were, ‘things that could be improved.’ Now complete, it will share the same space each January in celebration of the birth of Robert Burns, at eye level under the might of Gray’s mural ‘Universe’, as yet unfinished but equally sublime in it beauty and his iconic painting ‘Fleck’, before returning to their more permanent home on the walls of the bar on the ground level. From the lofts to the rather unique setting of the bar downstairs, connecting the story to a contemporary audience sees the journey of this series of paintings endure in a space where people gather, eat, drink, sit among friends and observe in solitude – a brilliant allegory and a perfect place for Wheatley’s magnificent paintings to call home. nicholwheatley.co.uk oran-mor.co.uk
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