JENNY MASON

Jenny was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and now lives in Edinburgh. Her paintings have been exhibited in many galleries around Scotland including Flaubert in Edinburgh, the Paisley Museum and Art Gallery and the Aberdeen Artists' Society.

'The starting point for my work is the landscape, in particular looking out from the landscape onto large expanses of sky and sea. There is something reassuring in the endless movement of clouds in the sky and the relentlessness of the sea - whether it is a grey, drizzly day with low cloud or one with high winds and clouds rushing across the sky. It is never the same, never boring, and it takes one's attention off the cerebral and onto the visual wonderment of the world we inhabit.

In my work I seek to capture the shimmering ambiguity of light on the sea or land, to encapsulate a certain romantic atmosphere or and the feeling one gets when immersed in that landscape. The surfaces of my work are painterly and have a soft, hazy quality as I work the paint in quite a dry manner, applying glazes of colour to slowly build up a rich patination. In making image, I strive to balance expressiveness and restraint, formal qualities such as love of colour and surface, with a note of representation to the landscape in which the work was conceived'.