Lock paints viscerally. Using blowtorches and electric sanders as well as the brush, he ages and wears his canvasses down, making them seem all the more natural. At its core, his work conveys the passage of time; colours, movement and characters that are half-recalled, uncertain.
Lock earned his MA in Fine Art and MA in Art History from Edinburgh University in 1997, graduating with honours.
Brightens the sun
Wait beneath skies
The fluent air
How the day starts
The train leaves
Nor yesterday running
Air falls softly
Upon the sand
They are flying
Light is borrowed
The water was slate
All the empty
These black fathoms
The secret earth
Dark shimmers blue
Still evening fades
The silence of space
So black the sky
Scar in the sky
This Wave is Green
A blossom fell
Invisible air drifts
The light burns blue