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Alison McGill

b.1974

Calm, 2023

pastel on paper
H:10cm W:10cm
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Winter Twilight, 2023

pastel on paper
H:10cm W:10cm
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Autumn Sky, 2023

pastel on paper
H:10cm W:10cm
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First Signs of Summer, 2012

oil & wax on board
H:38cm W:38cm
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Morning Glow, Lochside, 2016

oil & wax on board
H:30.5cm W:30.5cm
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Rhythm of the Land, 2020

oil & wax on board
H:46cm W:46cm
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Hillside View, 2020

pastel on paper
H:15cm W:23cm
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Change of Season, 2020

oil & wax on board
H:30.5cm W:30.5cm
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Coastal Walk, 2015

charcoal pencil on paper
H:15.5cm W:23cm
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Sweeping Landscape, 2020

oil & wax on board
H:122cm W:132cm
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Autumnal Landscape, 2020

oil & wax on board
H:61cm W:61cm
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Into the Hills, 2020

oil & wax on board
H:46cm W:46cm
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Approaching Winter, 2020

oil & wax on board
H:30.5cm W:30.5cm
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Cool Day, 2020

oil & wax on board
H:30.5cm W:30.5cm
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Shoreline, Spring, 2017

pastel on paper
H:17.5cm W:17.5cm
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Late November, 2015

oil & wax on board
H:20.5cm W:25.5cm
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Silent Shore, 2015

oil & wax on board
H:30.5cm W:30.5cm
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Colours of the Land

Oil and wax on board
H:51cm W:51cm
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Dark Sky and Fields

oil and wax on board
H:127cm W:122cm
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Alison McGill

Born: 1974

‘I prefer to leave the interpretation of my paintings up to the individual, hoping to evoke a sense of calm through my work and to offer an escape to the viewer – a chance to reflect and gain a new perspective on life.’

Alison McGill lives and works in Edinburgh and has been a practicing artist since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1998. Her central subject is the Scottish landscape and shores, which she creates in her distinctive abstract style. As a student, under the tutelage of Victoria Crowe, Alison first experimented in mixing wax and paint to create heavily impastoed textures and painterly surfaces. The mastery of technique in allowing the wax to flow and evolve has been honed and developed over years of practice; excavating and melting the layers of the painting to reveal multiple layers of melded colours, to capture earth contours, rock strata and impressions of the land in its elemental state. In the hands of Alison McGill the landscape moves from real, observed locations to lyrical abstraction.

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