About my work: Gathering a new colour palette
Just outside Glasgow, the new year has begun with heavy snow and brilliant sunlight.
I'm very lucky to have a beautiful walk like this just up the road from home, heading through forest towards the Campsies.
Whilst walking, I began to note unexpected rich colours that had disappeared in dark December. The treetops and hills were alight with rich oranges, blush tones and warm greens. I took lots of photographs along the walk, and began recording my new colour palette.
Back in the studio, I picked out colours from the photos I took and compiled a colour palette. Although mediated through technology, I like that these colours have come from the landscape, at that particular moment. The sun and snow altered the colours of the hills as the day went on, and so each photograph captures colours unique to that moment.
I came across artist Vivien Martineau's work, Plant and Pigment, recently and am intrigued by her use of stones from beaches and valleys in the UK to create paint. This way the colours really do come from the land, and I hope to explore this type of pigment making myself at some point in 2021!
In the meantime, stay tuned for new paintings developing from the beautiful light of the winter sun on the Campsie Glen.
