Windswept places, shadowed glens, and luminous shorelines
Between Earth and Echo is a collection of paintings by Ellis O'Connor 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.
Contemporary Scottish Abstraction: Where Highland Landscapes Transform into Emotional Terrain
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.
Edinburgh Exhibition Explores the Dialogue Between Scotland's Ancient Land and Personal Memory
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.
