Malize McBride

Malize is principally a landscape artist. Painting in oil and watercolour, drawings in pencil, ink and wash, and also make abstract monoprints that refer to landforms and geological processes.

Malize's work ranges in scale from very large oils on canvas to small sketches; her watercolours are mostly large and loosely painted using very large brushes. She goes on long trips painting, sketching and taking photographs, all of which feed into later work in the studio.

Malize loves being out in high, wild and remote areas. From visiting Antarctica, Central Australia and Greenland, now working mainly in Scotland, especially the North and West. Interested in geology and how this influences the topography but most of all Malize responds to the huge skies and empty spaces of the north. Increasingly aware of the fragility of this landscape, and feels her paintings are becoming not only emotional responses to a view but also a form of record of it.

She works in a variety of media including watercolour, graphite, vinyl text, monoprint and oil, and often incorporate graphite rubbings of rock and other natural surfaces