- LINDA PARK
- IAN DARLING
- FIONA MILLAR
- FIONA STRICKLAND
- FRANCES BELL
- LUCY PARSONS
- PHYLLIDA MEACHAM
- ROB HAIN
- DAVID HAY
- SUSAN MITCHELL
- ANGELA HUNTER
- MARCUS HODGE
- CLAIRE BEATTIE
- SANDRA VICK
- BARBARA FRANC
- SAM MACDONALD
- PENELOPE ANSTICE
- CHRIS ROSE
- HELEN KEMP
- PATRICIA SADLER
- HAZEL VELLACOTT
- MATT CURTIS
- HELEN FAY
- JEAN FEENEY
- MICHAEL DIX
- HENRIETTA LAWSON JOHNSTON
- GRAHAM MUIR
- CHRISTOPHER PALMER
- ANNE SKINNER
CLAIRE BEATTIE
Claire is based in Duns in the Scottish Borders. Her work is concerned with the Borders landscape and she creates works in oil and other media that document her response to her surroundings. The compositions that emerge, although not always topographical, are based and abstracted from photographs, sketches and memories of the roadsides, hills, moorland and woodland of her environment.
'Creating paintings which are calm, composed and balanced, but which retain a sense of the hand that has made them, is what I hope to do with my work. I love simple and austere composition but on close inspection I want the work to reveal a restrained yet rich palette of colour and tone, echoing the landscape itself, and that its character of painterly surfaces achieved with layers of mark making are apparent and interesting to the eye.'
The work is minimal in style and has a repetitive quality in its preoccupation with these landscape features, emphasised by a restricted palette of tone and colour. Currently, this concern with repetition is emerging through working in series, each piece informing and laying the foundation for the next. In this way the paintings build to form a body of work which has at its core a specific element of the landscape.
Claire graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1997 and, after some time off to raise her three children, returned to painting full-time. Claire's work is regularly accepted by both the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and she has exhibited in a number of high-profile galleries and institutions over the past few years including The Paisley Art Institute, The Affordable Art Fairs in London and Bristol, The Chelsea Art Fair, The Junction Gallery, Oxfordshire, Cameron Contemporary and The Albany Gallery, Cardiff. She is a member of The Society of Scottish Artists and Visual Arts Scotland.