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Kayla Spence

Kayla Spence
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Kayla Spence’s work is rooted in the exploration of connection to landscapes and the emotions they can evoke, in particular, Scottish landscapes. Spence is a painter based in Aberdeen after gaining her painting degree from Gray’s School of Art in 2024. Her paintings aim to reveal an intimacy and delicacy from the land that represents her personal relationship with nature. Nature brings a soothing feeling while also providing solitude, which the paintings are used to convey. Through use of oil paint, Spence explores the tension between abstraction and representation of the landscape. The tension is created by narrow compositions, bold brushstrokes and limited colour palettes.
BA(Hons) Degree in Painting, Gray’s School of Art (2020-2024).

Curator/organiser of “Analogous” at Moray Art Centre, February to April 2024.
This included social media promotion, designing posters, curating the show and installing.

Volunteer curator at Moray Art centre, summer 2023

Contestant on Sky’s Landscape Artist of the Year, Series 10, 2025.

Exhibitions:
Solo exhibition, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, May 2025
“Summer Annual Show” Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, August 2024
“Gray’s Degree Show” Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, June 2024
“Analogous” Moray Art Centre, Findhorn, February 2024
“New Year, New Me, New World Order” Edinburgh Palette, January 2024
“Warm Voices” Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, December 2023
“Gray in the life” LookAgain, Aberdeen November 2023
“Art on the Edge” Moray Art Centre, Findhorn, February 2023

Instagram : @kspence_art
Untitled (blue)
  • Kayla Spence
  • Untitled (blue)
  • Oil
Continuation
  • Kayla Spence
  • Continuation
  • Oil
Surroundings
  • Kayla Spence
  • Surroundings
  • Drawing
Part 1 of drawing
  • Kayla Spence
  • Part 1 of drawing
  • Drawing
Part 2 of drawing
  • Kayla Spence
  • Part 2 of drawing
  • Drawing
Part 3 of drawing
  • Kayla Spence
  • Part 3 of drawing
  • Drawing
Roadside near Beinn Eighe
  • Kayla Spence
  • Roadside near Beinn Eighe
  • Oil
Showdown Peak, Landscape Artist of the Year
  • Kayla Spence
  • Showdown Peak, Landscape Artist of the Year
  • Oil

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