Rebecca Collins finds inspiration walking in the varied and dramatic landscape around her home on the Sound of Sleat. Her compositions often focus on specific sections of a landscape: a snapshot of summit, sky or slope, capturing fleeting moments of atmospheric effects. She paints using multiple layers of translucent paint and glazes, which gives her work a luminous and ethereal quality.
I have lived all my adult life on the north west coast of Scotland and every day I witness the temporal beauty created by the shifting weather patterns, how light and its effect through rain, snow, cloud onto rock and sea create moments of blinding beauty. I feel lucky to live surrounded by this ever changing, dynamic environment. Painting allows me to record and celebrate these fleeting moments. – Rebecca Collins
