As Far As I Can See – Exhibition of Claire Beattie landscape paintings

Landscape paintings inspired by colour, light and distant horizons

Wednesday – Monday 11:00 -16:00 (closed Tuesday)

Berwickshire-based artist Claire Beattie has produced an exhibition of beautiful, vibrantly-
coloured paintings inspired by the colour, light and distant horizons of the Scottish Borders.

The works usually feature a solitary motif as a focus. This can often be a tree or group of
trees, a cloud, a farm building, hay bales or the outline of the hills against the sky. She
creates the images by building a myriad of layers of colour and marks until these landscape
elements finally ‘settle’ into place and glow and resonate, like a memory or a view that
comes briefly into focus.

Claire has recently completed 100 Day painting projects inspired by the Berwickshire
countryside, recording the same view daily on a small scale, and experimenting with
different surfaces. The exhibition includes paintings which have emerged from this process,
with colour and light at their centre.