Artist Ellis inspired by coastal storms
Ellis O’Connor’s show at John Muir Trust’s Wild Space gallery in Pitlochry is open until February
An arts graduate who spent five months in Iceland last winter has a stunning exhibition on display in Pitlochry.
Ellis O’Connor’s show at Wild Space is titled‘Transcience’and focuses on the dark north Atlantic.
The Dundonian’s starting point was a road trip around the north west of Scotland that she made as an 18 year-old. The journey got her hooked on storm-battered coastal scenery.
“The landscape and geology blew me away,”she explained.“I came to love hiking and camping out in the remote landscapes of Scotland and realised I could combine this with my art.”
A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and
Design, Ellis has created paintings inspired by expeditions to some of the wildest places in Europe.
She spent five months last winter as an artist-in-residence in Iceland and three weeks in Svalbard, the remote archipelago halfway between Norway and the North Pole.
Before that in 2014, the young painter spent a month-long residency in Shetland.
Ellis is back on Shetland right now, where she will spend the winter as artist-in-residence at Sumburgh Head Lighthouse.
Transcience is at the John Muir Trust Wild Space gallery in Pitlochry until February, open Wednesday to Monday, closed Tuesdays.