She is often drawn to the edge of the land through her love of outdoor swimming.
The light is constantly shifting and, therefore, altering the scene. The constraint of a camera's lens or artist's panel creates boundaries that do not exist if stood within real-time and space. Connie's current practice explores how to recreate the Scottish landscape within the limitations of this knowledge.
By layering the image, she creates depth that enables the viewer to be absorbed through focussed segments of interest, along with more peripheral, hazy areas. She is often drawn to the edge of the land through her love of outdoor swimming. The watery surfaces play, reflect and refract the formal segments of land, water and sky, and transform the work into a simplified study of line, shape and colour. Connie uses translucent layers of chalky gesso, along with glossy inks and acrylics to paint, rub and scrape, mimicking the contrasting textures of the landscape.