KIRSTIE COHEN ST KILDA | an atlantic journey
COVER IMAGE Stac an Armin oil on canvas | 120cm x 150cm
+44 (0) 1463 783 230 art@kilmorackgallery.co.uk Kilmorack Gallery, inverness-shire iv4 7al SCOTLAND
KIRSTIE COHEN
ST KILDA | an atlantic journey
20th July - 17th August 2019
ST KILDA | an atlantic journey
These paintings are my response to the landscape of St. Kilda. With all the images fresh in my mind, I started to work out how to visually approach the task of producing a series of works, to express how inspired and overwhelmed I was at the sheer drama of the place. Being terrified of heights, I stayed clear of all the sheer cliff edges that were at the summit of every hill I climbed. To see sea birds rise up above my head with an abyss below was unsettling. And of course I thought about the St. Kilda people scaling these cliffs for birds and eggs for their everyday survival. I view this experience as the beginning of an exciting visual journey that has already taken me to places I have never before explored.
Kirstie Cohen, June 2019
‘ The work of the eyes is done, go now and do the heart work on the images within you ‘ Rainer Marie Rilke
Hirta’s Cliffs collage | 45cm x 55cm
Atlantic ii | oil on canvas | 100cm x 162cm
Looking Towards Boreray collage 45cm x 55cm
Dun collage 45cm x 55cm
Seascape study vii oil on board 15cm x 20cm
Seascape study viii oil on board 15cm x 20cm
Stac an Armin oil on canvas 120cm x 150cm
Behind Boreray It is black behind Boreray and small. All suns dance darkly, throw no shadows on the rock this black. Stac Lee is a black berg, its sunk seven-eigths beyond the scope of suns and me. We who wave our puny daring under Stac an Armin creep tinily by.
Jim Crumley
Studio Window mixed media 71cm x 74cm
Stac an Armin ii collage 45cm x 55cm
Atlantic i | oil on canvas | 100cm x 162cm
Landscape study iii oil on board 15cm x 20cm
Seascape study v oil on board 15cm x 20cm
Seascape study i oil on board 15cm x 20cm
Seascape study ii oil on board 15cm x 20cm
Seascape study iv oil on board 15cm x 20cm
Sketchbook 1 mixed media 25cm x 38cm
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