Margaretann Bennett RSW

MARGARETANN BENNETT studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1987 to 1991 and now works full-time from her studio base in Glasgow.  She exhibits in galleries throughout the UK and in the major Scottish open exhibitions.  She has won a number of awards, most recently the Contemporary Fine Art Gallery (Eton) Award (Paisley Art Institute 2005), the Langside College Watercolour Award (RGI Annual Exhibition 2005) and the William Bowie Award (Paisley Art Institute 2006).  In 2004 she was elected a member of the RSW (Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours).

Her current work explores the west Coast landscape through use of mixed media where she creates a surface of rich colour and sumptuous texture with paint, often incorporating layers of delicate paper which she pre-colours and marks.  Her approach is intuitive rather than analytical: there is deliberate tension between areas of abstraction and finer detail.  Most of her works are a distillation of collected experiences into a visual unity and an evocation, rather than depiction of place.  

"I seek to convey a sense of time passing and lives lived, drawing on elements where man has left his mark, for example lines and shapes created by old stone walls, steadings and sheepfolds."

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