Talented artist to stage her first solo exhibition
A talented Tillicoultry painter will display work inspired by her late grandfather at her first ever solo exhibition.
Elizabeth Ann Ogilvie is set to showcase a series of semi-abstract, highly personal pieces at the Green Gallery in Dollar. The exhibition opens today (Friday) and runs until Sunday, November 27.
The artist was driven to paint works which interpret how an individual suffering from dementia feels after watching the decline of her grandfather, who died after suffering from Alzheimer’s.
Speaking about her approach to her work, she said: “I never know whether it will be figurative, landscape or semi-abstract at the start of the procedure. It’s all like putting together a puzzle of remembered images, slightly distorted and fragmented through time and memory.
“Just as a person suffering from dementia tries to grasp for remembered fragments to paint a verbal picture.
“It used to take my grandfather half an hour to remember who I was. This idea that a picture is a collection of fragments waiting to come together has fed into all of my work. For me, it is all about the process of fitting little fragments together.
“There is a great freedom in painting this way. I love nature but I don’t want to paint a flower. Nature has its own beauty so that’s why I leave it be and I paint in my own way.”
Gallery owner Becky Walker explained that the exhibition came about after Elizabeth visited the gallery (Photograph by Mark Shields)
and they got chatting.
She said: “She asked if I’d have a look at her work and I was intrigued so I went to her house and I could see immediately that she had something quite special.
“Her work is quite abstract but the layers she creates draw you in completely. I offered her a solo show in the gallery because I knew that other people would love it.”