Yarrow revisited

Yarrow Hillside, oil on canvas, 2008 © Claudia Massie

Back to the palette today, and work continues on the Border landscapes. I'm doing an exhibition in August at the Flaubert Gallery in Edinburgh, in conjunction with regular co-conspirators Nicola Moir and Camilla Watson, and so I'm working with this in mind. The idea is to have a coherent body of work that will look mighty impressive when all put together, and the majority of it will probably be landscapes. I used to paint mostly grim city scenes but the bucolic charms of the Borderland have taken over of late. Here's a lively painting of a hillside up Yarrow, scarred by sheep tracks, quad tracks and broken down dykes, cowering beneath a tumultous sky. A Geologist tells me this hillside was once upon a time a sand dune, and I think you can see that in its form.

Update: Seems the Geologist actually said 'it looks like a sand dune' but it wasn't one, not ever. Does look like one though. It's a turbodite actually. Apologies for any confusion. I am ignorant, and deaf, and don't pay attention to Geology lessons.

To see work by Moir and Watson follow these links:

http://www.nicolamoir.com/

http://www.camillawatson.co.uk/