Guildhall Visitor Information Centre, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne
April 23 until June 1st 2008
Open: Monday to Friday 10am - 2pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am - 5pm
Artist's statement
Living in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills, I am inspired by the ever changing beauty
of the wild moors and the contrast with the gentler, heavily farmed Merse area between the hills
and Berwick on Tweed. The often spectacular geological features are tamed by the farmers fences, dry
stone dykes and ancient paths which served as the main links between the cost and the hill communities.
My last series of works was painted on the burnt and regenerating heather of the Greenlaw moor.
I paint outside and I am always surprised by the colour and light on the moor even in the bleakest time of winter.
I try to open the surface of the canvas by using both line
and brushwork to create the feeling of air, movement and light until
the image of the landscape emerges. I am interested in the landscape
moods and the marks left on it by the centuries of human
activity. Farmers, forestry, grouse shooting, which necessitates a lot
of heather burning and regeneration, ancient paths and the herring
road through the wildest parts of the Lammermuirs. I like to take the
landscape as a starting point for the structure of the painting ,
preserving the feel and experience of it and at the same time
experimenting with the image to create a dynamic composition that is
exciting for me.
[1] Redheugh Beach. Acrylics on mountboard. SOLD
[2] Gifford, East Lothian. Acrylics on mountboard. Not for sale.
[3] Lammer Moor 1. Oil pastel on paper. 46/46cm. £200 SOLD
[4] Rathburn Valley, Lammermuirs. SOLD
[5] Lammer Moor 2. Burning Heather. Oil pastel on paper. 79/62cm. Limed
frame and mount, glass. £350
[6] Kilpalett, Lammermuirs. Oil on canvas. 5ft/4ft. £2000
[7] Berwickshire. Oil on heavy linen. SOLD
[8] Faseny Water, Lammermuirs. Oil pastel on board. 45/55cm. Limed
frame and white mount, glass. £250
[9] Wellrig Dean, Lammermuirs. Oil on board, 65/65cm. £200
[10] Burned and regenarating heathland, Lammermuirs. Oil on canvas, 76/76cm.
[11] Raecleugh Head, oil on canvas, 5ft/4 ft. £1500
About the artist
Lida Hatrick has lived and worked in the Scottish borders for the past forty years.
She started painting in her teens but for many years she could only paint in her spare time, while teaching English and raising her three children.
Hatrick began her formal studies in the 1990s at the Edinburgh College of Art, where she studied with Eduardo Paolozzi, Vincent Butler, James Robertson, Ann Oram, and John Buchanan, among others.
She continued her visual art education on a part-time basis in the Open College of the Arts and between 2003-2007 on a full-time basis
at the Leith School of Art, Edinburgh.
She is now painting full-time.
Exhibitions:
2008 Two Women Exhibition, Nenthorn, Kelso | 2008 Two Women Exhibition, Belford, Northumberland | 2008 Guildhall Visitor Information Centre, Quayside, Newcastle, solo exhibition |
2007 ING Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London | 2007 The Aspect Prize Competition, Paisley |
2003-2007 Leith School of Art | 1998 Talbot-Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Laing Exhibition |
Annual exhibitions, Berwickshire Art Society.