Kirstie Cohen

Kirstie Cohen's work stands out in Scottish landscape painting. Technically it is different from others for it is created by the laborious process of layering and manipulating thin glazes of slow-drying oil-paint. The result is a richness rarely seen in modern painting.

Cohen’s work is more than just this though. The hills, lochs, seas and skies are intentionally in a state of unresolved flux; light and dark move around, tides rise and fall and the gentle flatness of a moor can also be the rolling of the sea… and the land is alive, her paintings are alive. Mastery of paint, composition and intuition are her key concern and this is been the secret of many great painters, for it gives freedom.