Gill Tyson

Statement

My main practice is in lithography, concentrating on the richness of expressive marks within this medium. I develop my prints by building up layers of colour to create a depth and intensity in deceptively simple and distilled imagery. My work has been likened to "painting in slow motion".

I am drawn to remote, often bleak and harsh, environments - places as diverse as Orkney, The Lofoten Islands and the Namib Desert. I look for incidents of manmade presence in places that are in some ways inhospitable. It’s often a seemingly out of place marker in the landscape; a circus poster on a telegraph pole by the Arctic Sea, a kilometre marker in the Namib Desert. At the moment I am working on a series of images looking at places where the road runs out; a pier collapsed into the sea, a remote community at the end of the road.

I graduated in 1979 from Edinburgh University and College of Art with an MA in Fine Art. My work is in many public collections including the Smithsonian Institution, Aberdeen Art Gallery and The Royal Bank of Scotland.

Recent exhibitions include The 7th British Mini Print International where I received a Highly Commended. In 2008 I received a Visual Arts Award from the Hope Scott Trust for an exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh and in 2009 a Visual Arts Award from the City of Edinburgh and Scottish Arts Council for a printmaking residency in Co Donegal.

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