Janice McNab, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh (2008)

Janice McNab, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh (2008)

The Chocolate Box Paintings, by Ken Pratt (2008)

‘Chocolate box painting’ is the term we use to write off sentimental images of the past, often the rural past. These rose-tinted idealizations of country poverty developed alongside the industrial revolution, and came to define a life that never was, first to urban Victorians, and then to generations of Cadbury’s Chocolate buyers and jigsaw puzzle aficionados. Janice McNab, an artist who grew up in the picturesque Scottish Highlands, has taken our shared knowledge of such imagery as the critical starting point for a series of paintings that seek to define something of our current blind consumption of the natural world.


Real life delivered in empthy wrappers by Iain Gale (2005).
Review published in Scotland on Sunday, UK.

‘Real life delivered in empthy wrappers’ by Iain Gale (2005). Review published in ‘Scotland on Sunday’, UK.