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Magnetic North: The Landscapes of Tom Uttech

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Magnetic North is far more than an exhibition catalogue. The introduction is followed by an essay by Lucy R Lippard, an appreciative and specific discussion of the artist's painting and photography and the relationship between the two. This is followed with an intersting conversation between Margaret Andrea and the artist about photography entitled "Landscape through the Lens", which also includes a discussion about the relationship between the artist's painting and photography.

The photographs are off woodland interiors, streams and lakes, and that is the general theme of the paintings. However there is an air of mystery or something magical about the paintings; generally rich, dark, detailed and jewel like, they frequently include birds or animals, at times in unusually large numbers.

The bulk of the book is taken up with the catalogue of the exhibition; predominantly full page colour plates of the paintings interspersed with full page black and white photographs; although sometimes the page contains two smaller images. The large almost square format of the book allows for most of the images to be presented to a good size on the page, with a few of images produced as full page bleed. There are about seventy paintings presented here along with about thirty five of the artist's black and white photographs. It has a printed hardcover.