Welcome
Look Beyond !
I invite the viewer to look beyond the trees to the light
Look beyond the play of light on the water to the distant horizon
Look beyond the urban scenes I create, to question our similarities to our ancestors
I ask myself to look beyond the obvious, question, explore....
Recent paintings and art textiles explore the tenuous relationship between man and the natural world. As an artist, Denise spends valuable time researching text and gathering visual information from painting en plein air, museum visits and life drawing. This process was instilled by her drawing and painting degree course at Glasgow School of Art in the early 1980's.
As the theme for a solo exhibition develops, the figurative designs emerge to include a layering of imagery, form and symbolic meaning. Whilst the landscape paintings explore and try to highlight the importance of these areas of natural beauty, under threat.
The following gallery solo exhibitions have been inspired by the fragile biodiversity of the
Sea:- Ocean of Time Exhibition, Dundas St Gallery, Edinburgh 2018
Air:- Creation, Creation Exhibition, Glasgow Art Club 2019
Air:- Falling Light, Dundas St Gallery, Edinburgh 2020
Land:- Nature's Odyssey, Dundas St Gallery, Edinburgh, Dec 2022