This video is an edition of the series ‘Art in Scotland’, featuring a film by Robert Morgan about artist Jeffrey Blondes and his exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh.

The programme is built around an interview recorded in front of a selection of Blondes’ landscape pictures on the walls of the Ingleby Gallery and includes brief glimpses of some of his work.

Jeffrey Blondes explains that, some years previously, he had moved with his family to rural France for a quiet, pastoral, working environment. Isolation is important to him when he is painting and the lack of distractions in the Highlands attracted him to paint in Scotland.

Blondes outlines his simple and direct approach to picture-making. He draws and paints on location, in the open air, claiming never to have drawn or painted in the studio, and says he never retouches the work later. He stresses that what you see is his work as it was at the time of the event, reflecting his mood and feelings while he was in situ. This video recording lasts 12 minutes and 0 seconds.