Alasdair McGregor's work is usually derived from the natural landscape although he doesn't regard himself principally a "landscape painter". He is often more interested in the small worlds at our feet than in the infinite expanse. The structure and complexity of space as defined by natural forms has long been a them of Alasdair's work. He takes inspiration from William Blake's famous words:
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
Perhaps stemming from his training in architecture, Alasdair has gone on to develop an interest in stretching the limits of pictorial space in an illusionistic way. Through a strong use of perspective and realistic detail, he endeavours to take the viewer on a journey to places increasingly more exotic and divorced from our contemporary urban existence.
In more than fifteen years of working as a painter, writer and photographer, Alasdair has been fortunate to venture to some of the world's great wilderness destinations. In such places he finds his ultimate stimulus.