Artist: Georgie Young

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Georgie Young is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art and paints mainly contemporary Scottish landscapes.  She paints primarily in acrylic using a bold palette and rich textures. For many years Georgie Young lived, taught and painted in Ayrshire.  She now divides her time between Edinburgh and Pittenweem in Fife.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

            palimpsest

            noun: a parchment or other surface on which writing has been applied over earlier writing which                 has been erased: something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form
            ORIGIN - from Greek palin ‘again’ + psestos ‘rubbed smooth’

The process of making a painting is very like the evolution of a landscape with layers built up, scratched into, worked on top of, then stripped away, erased, and then built on again, while still revealing traces of the former layer.

Choice of subject is a strange process – or rather not a process but a moment of recognition – this is what needs to be recorded. There will seldom be recognised ’landmarks’ in my work, because above all it is an attempt to reveal the unexpected beauty of unremarked places and the presence and influence of the human on the physical environment.

My work aims to evoke a feeling and capture a sense of place, an atmosphere or an unexpected detail rather than reproduce a direct likeness. The paintings are a product of observation, interpretation and improvisation: the original observation is processed, re-examined and the essence abstracted. The landscape is always the starting point and thereafter what is produced is my attempt to recreate, not the place, but the memory of the place. I am fascinated by the interplay of light, time, weather and season on landscape. The effect of the elements is one of the most fascinating things for me, not just for the energy, which it can produce in a painting or drawing, but also because of the influence it can have on my emotion and the reaction of others.

CV

2009
Union Gallery - Edinburgh
Whitehouse Gallery Kirkcudbright
Juno Gallery – Dunoon
Iona House Gallery – Woodstock , Oxfordshire
Kranenburg Fine Art, Oban
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Tolquhon Gallery
Aberfeldy Gallery, Perthshire
Red Rag Gallery – Stow-in-the-Wold
Woodbine Contemporary Art – Lincolnshire
Morningside Gallery – Edinburgh
Panik Gallery Killearn

2007/2008
Iona House Gallery – Woodstock , Oxfordshire
Kranenburg Fine Art, Oban
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Tolquhon Gallery
Aberfeldy Gallery, Perthshire
Red Rag Gallery – Stow-in-the-Wold
Woodbine Contemporary Art – Lincolnshire
Morningside Gallery – Edinburgh
Panik Gallery Killearn

2006/7
Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk
Kranenburg Fine Art, Oban
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Tolquhon Gallery
Aberfeldy Gallery, Perthshire
Red Rag Gallery – Stow-in-the-Wold
Woodbine Contemporary Art – Lincolnshire
Morningside Gallery – Edinburgh
Panik Gallery Killearn

2005/6
Lund Gallery , North Yorkshire
McNeill Gallery, Hertfordshire
Kranenburg Fine Art, Oban
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Tolquhon Gallery
Aberfeldy Gallery, Perthshire
Manor House Gallery – Oxfordshire
Red Rag Gallery – Stow-in-the-Wold
Woodbine Contemporary Art – Lincolnshire
And Bristol and Edinburgh Art Fairs - Woodbine
Morningside Gallery – Edinburgh

2003/4
Kranenburg and Fowler, Oban
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Affordable Art Fair (with Leith Gallery)
New York Art Fair (with Leith Gallery)
Discerning Eye – Leith Gallery
Women Artists – Tolquhon Gallery
Aberfeldy Gallery, Perthshire
Manor House Gallery – Oxfordshire
Red Rag Gallery – Stow-in-the-Wold
Woodbine Contemporary Art – Lincolnshire
Morningside Gallery – Edinburgh