Scottish Landscape artist Lynn McGregor RSW has been travelling around, building her memories of the beautiful Scottish countryside and translating them into painted scenes, for many years now. It is these two elements, landscape and memory, which are the building blocks of her work combined with her unique approach to application which allows her to create such extraordinary Scottish landscape paintings.

Rather than painting and repeating exactly what she sees, Scottish artist Lynn McGregor RSW draws on her own memories of the scenes she captures. Playing with the textual and geometrical shapes of the landscapes Lynn McGregor RSW breaks her subject into layers of marks and colours in an almost printmaker fashion. These layers combined with the more personal layers of her own memories create work which is both visually pleasing and evocative. Being both mentally and physically embedded in the landscape, her studio sitting between a wooded hillside and Loch Awe, her practiced hand is at ease letting intuition and the marks themselves led her in the initial application of paint, before later balancing all the elements within the composition with a more controlled and critiquing eye.

Lynn McGregor’s clean lines, blocked shapes, considered colour palette and instinctive mark making is all seamless captured through her wisely chosen medium, acrylic. Acrylic paint enables the fairly immediate building of layers due to its fast-drying nature, stopping colours from getting muddied accidentally and allowing a more impulsive, instantaneous covering.