gillian murray

Gillian Murray is an Edinburgh based artist who was born in Perth and studied Fine Art, with a focus on printmaking, at Aberdeen’s Gray’s School of Art. Having worked for many years running the Screenprinting department at Edinburgh Printmakers, she decided to focus full time on her own practice. With a focus on landscape, Murray seeks out quiet, remote locations, off the beaten path where she “can feel an affinity with the landscape”. It is here that she makes sketches in which the ‘line’ is of prime importance. “The ‘line’ . . . is the link between me physically being in a place drawing, to it appearing in my final screenprint. It is the constant in my work around which I then create planes of colour and textures to make the final print.” It is without doubt that Murray’s skill and sensitivity have come together in equal measure in these enticing and intriguing representations of the landscape.