SANDRA VICK artist

My latest work is about the landscape. It’s about how it is part of us and we are part if it. How the clearance of land in Scotland left many ruins of houses and other memories of humans in the landscape. How, inspired by Jon Muir, we leave “only footprints” that add up to scarred landscapes and the consequent conservation projects. How through our use of mobile phones, every part of the landscape is now documented, shared through social media and images then the more remote and wild places are more known about and further footprints are left. How we are as much part of the landscape as it is part of us. We are nature, we live with nature and we are part of it. And how we are custodians, and need to look after it for future generations to love as much as we have.

My paintings capture the colours of the landscape, the shapes of the landscape, the beauty but also how my presence is part of that. Each painting has a hint of a figure, a shadow, a worn path, a presence, a building, a part of it that links it to humans.

This work has developed over the last year, moving from a more literal translation of the landcape towards a more abstract translation. This is all new work.

Please get in touch if you'd like to see any of these paintings in my studio. I welcome studio visits by arrangement. 

Apologies that this page is not yet mobile phone ready - it is better viewed from a computer screen. 

summer fields oil on canvas, 84.5x84.5x3cm £1200	path to the hills  oil on linen, 50x50cm £500	road to the hills - small study oil on canvas, 20x20cm £100
across the valley oil on canvas, 61x61cm £600	over the valley oil on linen, 40x40cm £350	snowy fields mixed media, 40x60cm on canvas £600
a way to the hills oil on canvas, 80x30cm £600	from the tumshie field oil on canvas, 70x30cm £600	where are the hills? oil on canvas, 80x30cm £600
across the loch oil on canvas, 80x20cm, £600	a wide and empty space oil on canvas, 91x61cm £950	time let me hail and climb mixed media on paper, 70x92cm framed £650
craws flying by oil on linen, 40x40cm £500	carnethy oil on canvas, 70x30cm £600
from scald law oil on canvas, 60x60 UNFRAMED	hills more travelled, 80x30cm  currently on show at the Now&Then Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show at the Royal Scottish Academy at the National Galleries of Scotland, on the Mound in Edinburgh.