Voicing the Unvoiceable

Paint has the power to tell stories and voice the unvoiceable, which is what we see in the works of Christopher Wood RSW and Becs Boyd - two of the five artists currently exhibiting in Kilmorack Gallery's June exhibitions.

As well as an artist, Becs Boyd is an ecologist and a fluent Russian speaker. Most summers involve long-distance walks, normally to remote places in Norway but in 2025 it was to Moldova and Romania, a region buffered by current instabilities and rich in history. Boyd’s latest ten paintings are like the eastern church frescos that inspired her. They also tell stories, of animals and people - some hard and some wondrous - but like the frescos Boyd's work is haunting, beautiful and timeless.

Christopher Wood's latest seven paintings are also inspired by walks and unworded deeper-than-skin feelings. With Wood, inspiration is from a daily walk along the Dunbar coast and an annual pilgrimage to Sandwood Bay in the far north. Christopher Wood is unique in his ability to invoke feelings of heat, dampness and cold - bodily existential awarenesses - captured using only the balance of colour and form.