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Carolyn Burchell

Edinburgh
Focusing on small areas of parks, gardens, urban scenes and woodland, often with figures or dwellings, I draw in pencils and paint in acrylics and gouache.
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Explorations of my home city of Edinburgh and travels within Europe have always influenced me. In the 1990s and early 2000s visits to Scottish islands led to a simplification of forms and dream-like atmosphere. In recent years visits to Norway, Eastern Europe and within Scotland have provided me with different focus upon woodland, parks, gardens, architecture and urban areas. Surrealist and Romantic landscape painting also plays a part in informing my work, as does literature.  I am interested in the therapeutic aspect of painting and drawing; in landscape as both exterior and interior space, acting as a vehicle for emotion, memory and personal significance.

In 2010 I completed a research project at Glasgow School of Art, examining forest landscape in selected artists' work, which contributed to a dialogue between modern and contemporary artists employing metaphor and symbolism through a variety of creative processes and methods of representation.

Intensive periods of drawing in sketchbooks has helped to produce a stronger sense of movement in my paintings in acrylic, watercolour and gouache. This has heightened my awareness of the private and subtle nature of features in the landscape and what they represent to me. My work often hints at a human presence.

Work in Collections: BBC Scotland, Glasgow; Queen's Hall, Edinburgh;  Astley Ainsley Hospital, Edinburgh; Art in Healthcare, Scotland; NHS Lothian; University of Edinburgh; Edinburgh College of Art; various in private collections.

 

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