Angela Lawrence

Angela’s recent landscape paintings, while ranging from a semi-abstract to a more representational style, mainly evoke the changing moods of the hills and sea in South West Scotland and often emphasis the effects of the light on the land. The Galloway landscape, the Solway, the Western Highlands and coastal areas are her main sources of inspiration, but often locations are purely imaginary, telling of the wind or the mist across the hills or sometimes of myriad varieties of rocks along the shore.

Angela works mainly in oils at present but returns to watercolour often, finding that both can stimulate different ideas and approaches to the same themes. She particularly enjoys trying to evoke glimpses of Scottish or Cumbrian landscapes whilst leaving the viewer space to fill in details with their own imagination.

Angela’s most recent series of paintings, ‘Sea Spirits’, focuses purely on the sea and captures impressions of the shore and the movement of the water. In 2011 Angela will be continuing with this project in the Outer Hebrides, which she received a Visual Arts Award for from Creative Scotland and Dumfries & Galloway Arts.