Kilmorack Gallery has announced details of their forthcoming  exhibition showing the work of two Scottish painters: Kirstie Cohen and Christopher Wood RSW. The third exhibition of 2012, which opens on 11th August (and runs until 22nd September 2012), demonstrates the strength of Director Tony Davidson’s programming, recently described by a critic as ‘one of the most astute in the country’.

Kirstie Cohen
Kirstie Cohen uses a painstaking technique of layering oil paints and glazes to create her work. The paintings are of no particular place, evoking instead the distinct quality of light that distinguishes the Scottish Highlands.

Cohen has exhibited widely and to great acclaim since she graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s. She now works from her studio high above the Beauly Firth, a places that, like her paintings, is in a constant flux of moving weather and passing clouds. This exhibition at Kilmorack Gallery includes larger and more interesting work than ever.

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood’s paintings are made from mixed media, and the physical process of creating is intertwined by the careful abstraction of the subject, be that the sea, the elements or the cry of gulls.

Since he graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in the 1980s, Christopher Wood has had many solo shows across the UK and is an invited member of prestigious societies bearing acronyms (RGI, PAI, SSA and VAS). He has a score of awards to his name and work in the best of collections. This is Wood’s first major exhibition since retiring as president of the Scottish Society of Artists earlier this year.

Tony Davidson says ‘Both Cohen and Wood grew up in artistic families close to the sea in East Lothian. In their work, both artists always come back to the sea. They have the abstract qualities that mark out the best professional artists. A Christopher Wood painting at first appears difficult, yet quickly resolves into something deeply recognisable; where as a Kirstie Cohen painting starts off recognisable, and the more you look at it, the more challenging it becomes.’

The show of new work by these two artists (at Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire) runs from the 11th August until the 15th September.

Kilmorack Gallery
The Old Kilmorack Church
By Beauly
Inverness-shire
IV4 7AL
t: 01463 783 230
www.kilmorackgallery.co.uk

Source: Kilmorack Gallery