Moments Lost in Time REBECCA COLLINS
REBECCA COLLINS Moments Lost In Time 28 August - 28 September 2019
The Scottish Gallery is pleased to welcome back Rebecca Collins for her second solo exhibition at The Scottish Gallery, Moments Lost in Time. Collins lives and works on the northwest coast of Scotland, finding inspiration walking in the varied and dramatic landscape around her home on the Sound of Sleat. Her deep familiarity with this part of Scotland offers her a unique perspective, as a first-hand observer of the changing seasons and sometimes extreme weather; she understands and uses this infinite variety as her principal subject. Her compositions often focus on specific sections of a landscape: a snapshot of summit, sky or slope that capture fleeting moments of atmospheric effects.
Rebecca Collins on Skye
Her ability to create paintings using multiple layers of translucent paint and glazes gives her work a luminous and ethereal quality, rendering the beauty of momentary sunshine, mists and passing squalls. Collins is an artist at the peak of her powers and deeply engaged with the natural world. She has chosen the following words quoted from Gerhard Richter to summarise her artistic practice: I’m trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That’s all. Tommy Zyw
Breaking Light, oil on board, 14.6 x 21 cm
Detail Blue Clouds Towards Isle Ornsay, oil on board, 100 x 74 cm (right)
Five Sisters I, oil on board, 100 x 66
Five Sisters II, oil on board, 100 x 66
Glen Garry, oil on board, 50 x 76 cm
Detail: Misty Glen, oil on board, 21.3 x 15 cm, (right)
The work in this exhibition is of landscapes local to where I live, in some cases outside my studio door. There is so much beauty in the light and weather patterns that I cannot help but be affected by it. Painting allows me to mark and celebrate a moment of beauty while also trying to make sense of that effect on me. Rebecca Collins, 2019
Rebecca Collins on the shoulder of Beinn Sgritheall
Detail: Snow Storm, Kylerhea, oil on board, 76 x 50 cm (right)
Suilven, oil on wood panel, 38 x 50 cm
The View from Suilven, oil on wood panel, 38 x 50 cm
The Mam, oil on b
board, 38 x 50 cm
View from the Mam, oil
on board, 15 x 21.3 cm
Silver Sea, oil on board, 50 x 38 cm
View to Kylerhea, oil on w
wood panel, 66 x 100 cm
REBECCA COLLINS Education Brighton Art College, BA Hons Fine Art 1989 - 1992 Studied under Joaquien Torrents IIado, Mallorca, Spain 1986 - 1988 Group Shows
Realist Landscapes, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2012 A Wall of Wee Gems, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2010 Glasgow Art Fair, 2006 Frames Gallery Summer Show, Perth, 2006 Group Show, Frames Gallery, Perth, 2006 The Yearly Exhibition of Scottish Artists, Panter and Hall, Mayfair, London 2002 - 2008 The Yearly Winter Show, Malcolm Innes / Anthony Wood, Edinburgh, 1997 - 2005 Group Show, The Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Eton, Berkshire, 2000 The Yearly Summer Show, Broughton Gallery, Broughton, 1997 - 1999
Solo Exhibitions
Antarctica, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, April 2010 New Works, Solo Show, The Firth Gallery, Edinburgh, 2000 Solo Show, Eilean Donan Castle, Highlands, 1999 West Coast Mountain Sky and Seascapes, The Firth Gallery, Edinburgh, 1998 Private Collections
The Royal Bank of Scotland Collingwood of Bond Street
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