Windswept places, shadowed glens, and luminous shorelines
Between Earth and Echo is a collection of paintings born from the elemental presence of the Highlands of Scotland; a landscape that speaks in silence, in shifting weather, in stone and sky. These works are not direct depictions, but emotional translations - interpretations of what it feels like to stand among these vast spaces and listen for what lingers just beneath the surface.
Here, the earth represents not only the physical terrain - its windswept places, shadowed glens, and luminous shorelines - but also grounding, embodiment, and presence. The echo evokes memory, absence, and the reverberations of time - personal and collective, past and ongoing. Each brushstroke is both a trace and a response, holding space between what is seen and what is felt.
Through abstraction, shifting palettes, and the suggestion of form rather than direct representation, the paintings invite viewers into this in-between space - a place where land becomes memory, and memory becomes landscape. They ask: what does it mean to belong to a place larger than yourself? How does the land hold the stories we don't speak?
This is not a documentary of the Highlands, but a dialogue - a quiet exchange between external landscape and internal terrain, between fleeting experience and the timeless presence of place.
The show also features artworks by Louis Lacaille, a painter whose work explores curiosities within natural and earth sciences. Based in Edinburgh, she is drawn to those subjects that lie at the edges of perception or comprehension: fleeting phenomena, strange lifeforms, and subjects whose scale or complexity makes them difficult to observe directly.
