Uisge : Highland Waters
Uisge! Framed Size: 143 x 112 cm 143 112
Winter Light, West Coast Framed Size: 164 x 113 cm 164 113
Spring Storm, Sandwood Bay Framed Size: 134 x 93 cm 134 93
Assynt Tides Framed Size: 164 x 124 cm 164 124
August Pool Framed Size: 144 x 112 cm 144 112
Return to Reiff Framed Size: 118 x 88 cm 118 88
Autumn Tides Framed Size: 164 x 124 cm 164 124
Golden Pool Framed Size: 54 x 44 cm 54 44
High Water Framed Size: 164 x 114 cm 164 114
In Assynt Framed Size: 132 x 91 cm 132 91
Limestone Pool II Framed Size: 88 x 73 cm 88 73
Limestone pool I Framed Size: 88 x 73 cm 88 73
Loch Veyatie Framed Size: 133 x 83 cm 133 83
Changing Seasons, Cul Mor Framed Size: 118 x 88 cm 118 88
Pool, Enard Bay Framed Size: 134 x 93 cm 134 93
Red Pool, Clashnessie Framed Size: 54 x 44 cm 54 44
Rock Pool, April Framed Size: 118 x 88 cm 118 88
Rocks and Water, Old Dornie Framed Size: 86 x 72 cm 86 72
Shoreline, Iona Framed Size: 93 x 73 cm 93 73
Spring Tide, Clachtoll Framed Size: 118 x 88 cm 118 88
Summer Evening, Garvie Bay Framed Size: 54 x 44 cm 54 44
Surging Tide Framed Size: 134 x 103 cm 134 103
Wee Waterfall, Hirta Framed Size: 88 x 73 cm 88 73
West Coast Summer Framed Size: 93 x 73 cm 93 73
Rocky Conversation Framed Size: 53 x 43 cm 53 43
Late Summer, Achiltibuie Framed Size: 38 x 31 cm 38 31
Pool at Low Tide Framed Size: 53 x 43 cm 53 43
Uisge – Water in Gaelic. No doubt a familiar word for the whisky connaisseurs! Here we have the source: crashing tides, flowing rivers, rock pools of immeasurable depth and kaleidoscopic reflections – the waters of life. This new exhibition explores the coastal and inland waters of the West Highlands where Beth lives and works. It emerges as much out of her adult experience of living and working in the Highlands, as it does her childhood spent on Tiree, playing outside in the cold rain, sleet and snow, always finding warmth in the rockpools. A childhood of half understood words, stories and songs about lost cities under the sea, kelpies and child stealing fairies. Ominous thoughts on even the sunniest of days.
Beth spent her early childhood on Tiree and, after a spell in Kansas, moved to Kingussie in the Highlands. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating with a degree in sculpture in 1995. Since then she has continued to draw and paint, travelling around the West Highands and Islands of Scotland to collect source material and sketches which are then worked up into larger pieces in her studio.
Beth’s interest lies in the passage of time and our experience of looking at land and sea, during which nature’s forces feel transient, fleeting and elusive, and always fully alive. With tides, splashes, breaking waves and angry waters she captures very specific moments, and fills them with a sense of nature’s magnitude and endurance over time. The paintings themselves have an other worldly quality, conveying the sense and scale of being a person within these remote places.
Beth’s method of working on the paintings reflects her interest in continuity and change; being both in the moment and part of a larger evolving process. She adds paper and paint, washes parts off, sands things back time after time until she’s happy with the emerging painting. Some paintings emerge quickly, with little battle, and others prove to be a stronger force to be reckoned with! We look forward to welcoming Beth at the Private View and raise a glass to this incredible collection of paintings. Uisge Beatha!
Please contact us for more information about the Private View, meeting the artist, and for any sales and reservation enquiries ahead of the opening.
