Susie Collingbourne

Susie Collingbourne is a Scottish landscape artist and will be introducing her new collection at the preview evening of 1 May.

This new body of work marks a shift in focus in her artwork: more abstracted, more intensely colour-driven, but rooted as ever in the light and atmosphere of the Scottish landscape. The paintings take their lead from Perthshire: its fields, its soil, its boundary lines, the soft pinks and warm earthy tones that saturate the land in every season. Colour is the subject here; held, layered, and celebrated.

The collection is ideally suited to be exhibited in Aberfeldy, Loch Tay and the Ben Lawers hills have long held a significant place in Susie’s creative imagination, and she finds herself returning to them again and again, so it feels entirely right that this new, more abstracted work should find its home here, in the landscape that helped to shape it.

Susie predominantly uses acrylic paint layered with rich textures, softened edges and occasional touches of gold leaf. Her goal is always to capture a moment of stillness, drama, colour or memory: the quiet glow across distant water, the weight of a darkening sky, or the softness of morning light on early blossom.