AMY DENNIS
LANDSCAPE AND OBJECT
THE
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AMY DENNIS Amy Dennis studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2000. She is a Jolomo Foundation Landscape painting award winner (2013) and has exhibited with the Scottish Gallery since 2009. She lives and works in Edinburgh. Dennis’s paintings combine still-life motifs with landscapes that are based on close observations of the coastline around Edinburgh. Her simplified groups of objects reference drawing and measuring tools, which interact in the image with architectural details found on the sites. Her unique style involves a precise interweaving of line and composition: the image oscillating between landscape and object, and between representation and abstraction. Above all Dennis is interested in emphasising the craft of painting and uses the ancient medium of egg tempera paint on Italian gesso. Meticulously pigmented and polished panels are prepared as a ground for the paintings. She then mixes raw pigment bound with egg yolk and distilled water (according to a 15th century recipe) which is applied in several thin layers to create a distinctive, subtle and resonant surface.
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Inchmickery Island, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 50 x 70 cms
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Bass Rock, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 15 x 21 cms 6
Firth of Forth with Objects V, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 15 x 21 cms 7
Cramond Island, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 25 x 35 cms 8
Landscape with Objects III, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 17.5 x 17.5 cms 9
Bass Rock with Objects, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 40 x 40 cms 10
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Tantallon Castle, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 15 x 21 cms 12
Cockenzie Harbour with Objects, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 62 x 84 cms 13
Leith Docks with Objects, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 50 x 70 cms 14
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Calton Hill, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 50 x 70 cms 16
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Landscape with Objects IV, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 17.5 x 17.5 cms 18
Inchkeith Island, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 62 x 84 cms 19
Port Seton, egg temera on true gesso panel, 50 x 70 cms 20
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Firth of Forth wirh Objects I, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 15 x 21 cms
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Firth of Forth wirh Objects II, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 15 x 21 cms
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Cockenzie I, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 15 x 21 cms
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Firth of Forth wirh Objects IV, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 15 x 21 cms
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St Monans, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 50 x 70 cms
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Landscape with Objects I, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 15 x 21 cms
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Landscape with Objects II, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 15 x 21 cms
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Landscape with Drawing Tools, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 62 x 84 cms
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Inchgarvie Island, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 25 x 35 cms
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Beamer Rock Lighthouse, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 25 x 35 cms
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Inchcolm with Objects, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 40 x 40 cms
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Venice with Objects I, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 50 x 70 cms
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Venice with Objects II, egg tempera on true gesso panel, 50 x 70 cms
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CONTEMPORARY ART SINCE 1842