We are delighted to welcome Pascale Rentsch’s first solo exhibition with The Gallery. Working directly in the landscape, Pascale embraces the weather, light, and spontaneity of painting outdoors. Her expressive marks capture not just the appearance of a place, but its emotional resonance – the feeling of standing in the wind, of rain on paper, of light flickering through gorse. The Living Earth brings together work made across Scotland including East Lothian, the Isle of Islay, and Luing – locations rich in memory, meaning, and wild natural beauty.
Explore the exhibition online here: Pascale Rentsch | The Living Earth
I am always moved when painting in nature because wherever I look I feel hope – the skylarks singing high in the sky despite the stormy weather and the light sparkling like gold dust on the shoreline. I carry my art materials in my trusty trolley, weathered by big hills, rocks, sand and even snow. It keeps all my materials together in one place and saves my back from a heavy rucksack.
Pascale Rentsch is an award winning Swiss-born artist living in East Lothian, Scotland, where she makes the most of her surrounding countryside, hills and coastlines. She draws and paints plein-air, directly from nature in all conditions.