Shona Elrick
- Work
- Biography
Growing up in rural Aberdeenshire gifted me with a profound emotional connection to Landscape. My paintings capture those unique feelings, colours and patterns experienced whilst out walking in nature.
Painted newsprint collage (a by-product of cleaning my brushes), is the basis of all my painting, from the initial studies to underpinning larger works on canvas. There is so much I love about this process, be it the expressive dynamic between painterly marks and ‘shadow’ grids found within the newsprint, or the play within a surprise mark or colour.
On closer inspection, the viewer can find arbitrary words and phrases that I have deliberately masked off within the newsprint; I find poetry as well as synchronicity in these words; both in regard to place or some aspect to my life, i.e., loss. Although I am increasingly masking-off references to climate change and the destruction of our natural habitat, my artwork is primarily a celebration of nature's beauty as I aim to convey a sense of awe and joy that I experience whilst within a landscape.
I work in place specific Series: currently 'North Sea' and 'Winter Series' are both inspired by stays in my family home in Aberdeenshire. As I live and work in London, Hampstead Heath is also another never-ending source of inspiration fed by weekly walks there. I exhibit widely in London, including regular exhibitions with the Riverside Artists Group.
Painted newsprint collage (a by-product of cleaning my brushes), is the basis of all my painting, from the initial studies to underpinning larger works on canvas. There is so much I love about this process, be it the expressive dynamic between painterly marks and ‘shadow’ grids found within the newsprint, or the play within a surprise mark or colour.
On closer inspection, the viewer can find arbitrary words and phrases that I have deliberately masked off within the newsprint; I find poetry as well as synchronicity in these words; both in regard to place or some aspect to my life, i.e., loss. Although I am increasingly masking-off references to climate change and the destruction of our natural habitat, my artwork is primarily a celebration of nature's beauty as I aim to convey a sense of awe and joy that I experience whilst within a landscape.
I work in place specific Series: currently 'North Sea' and 'Winter Series' are both inspired by stays in my family home in Aberdeenshire. As I live and work in London, Hampstead Heath is also another never-ending source of inspiration fed by weekly walks there. I exhibit widely in London, including regular exhibitions with the Riverside Artists Group.
Shona Elrick
shonaelrick@googlemail.com
07796 206695
www.shonaelrick.com
@shonaelrickart
EDUCATION:
Grays School of Art, Aberdeen. BA Painting (Fine Art). 2.1 Hons. 1986.
University of Hertfordshire. MA Art Psychotherapy. Pass. Distinction. 2008.
STUDIO:
ACAVA STUDIOS, 17-19 Hythe Rd, London, NW10 6RT.
EMPLOYMENT:
Art Psychotherapist, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, HA6 2RN. 2010 - Present (2 Days per week).
EXHIBITIONS:
'Summer Solstice' Online Instagram exhibition @riversideartistsgroup. 1st - 21st June 2024. (organised and administered by myself).
'Salt & Stars' at J/M Gallery, Portobello Rd, London, W11 1LJ. Curated by @artfuldodgerlondon. 20-26 March 2024.
'BORDERS', POSK Gallery, Hammersmith, London — Nov 2023. Riverside Artists Group’s Annual Exhibition. 32 artists 'using the discipline of collage in its wider sense of juxtaposing materials and concepts’. www.riversideartistgroup.com
ARTWEST Open Studios Event - September 2023 (Annual since 2009). www.artwestopenstudios.co.uk. Participant since 2009. Treasurer (2021 - 2024). Joint Lead (2022-2023). In 2022 we opened in conjunction with London Design Festival & www.parkroyaldesigndistrict.com
The Gallery at Green & Stone Summer Exhibition, SW3 6HY. August 2023. Artwork chosen for this exhibition - ‘House with Snow Cloud’ 2023.
MAYDAY MAYDAY, Riverside Artists Group . May-June 2023
Online exhibition, Exhibited- ‘Thin Red Line’.
SHONA ELRICK, Solo Exhibition - ‘Paintsongs to the Wild’, Willesden Gallery, NW10 2SF. November 2022.
Successful solo show exhibiting new works curated by Nadia Nervo. Works included large oils from ‘North Sea Series’; “Hampstead Heath Series’ and my ‘what3words’ Series.
BRICK LANE GALLERY, ‘Art in Mind’, London, E1 6SA. September 2022.
RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, London. ’Many Rivers to Cross’. September 2022.
REFERENCES:
(please request contact details from me).
Janey Hagger, co-chair of Riverside Artists Group. www.riversideartistsgroup.com
Michele Wood, Art Therapist, (Clinical Supervisor)
shonaelrick@googlemail.com
07796 206695
www.shonaelrick.com
@shonaelrickart
EDUCATION:
Grays School of Art, Aberdeen. BA Painting (Fine Art). 2.1 Hons. 1986.
University of Hertfordshire. MA Art Psychotherapy. Pass. Distinction. 2008.
STUDIO:
ACAVA STUDIOS, 17-19 Hythe Rd, London, NW10 6RT.
EMPLOYMENT:
Art Psychotherapist, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, HA6 2RN. 2010 - Present (2 Days per week).
EXHIBITIONS:
'Summer Solstice' Online Instagram exhibition @riversideartistsgroup. 1st - 21st June 2024. (organised and administered by myself).
'Salt & Stars' at J/M Gallery, Portobello Rd, London, W11 1LJ. Curated by @artfuldodgerlondon. 20-26 March 2024.
'BORDERS', POSK Gallery, Hammersmith, London — Nov 2023. Riverside Artists Group’s Annual Exhibition. 32 artists 'using the discipline of collage in its wider sense of juxtaposing materials and concepts’. www.riversideartistgroup.com
ARTWEST Open Studios Event - September 2023 (Annual since 2009). www.artwestopenstudios.co.uk. Participant since 2009. Treasurer (2021 - 2024). Joint Lead (2022-2023). In 2022 we opened in conjunction with London Design Festival & www.parkroyaldesigndistrict.com
The Gallery at Green & Stone Summer Exhibition, SW3 6HY. August 2023. Artwork chosen for this exhibition - ‘House with Snow Cloud’ 2023.
MAYDAY MAYDAY, Riverside Artists Group . May-June 2023
Online exhibition, Exhibited- ‘Thin Red Line’.
SHONA ELRICK, Solo Exhibition - ‘Paintsongs to the Wild’, Willesden Gallery, NW10 2SF. November 2022.
Successful solo show exhibiting new works curated by Nadia Nervo. Works included large oils from ‘North Sea Series’; “Hampstead Heath Series’ and my ‘what3words’ Series.
BRICK LANE GALLERY, ‘Art in Mind’, London, E1 6SA. September 2022.
RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, London. ’Many Rivers to Cross’. September 2022.
REFERENCES:
(please request contact details from me).
Janey Hagger, co-chair of Riverside Artists Group. www.riversideartistsgroup.com
Michele Wood, Art Therapist, (Clinical Supervisor)
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