Erraid Gaskell

Born in Perth in 1997, Erraid spent her childhood growing up on the Black Isle in the north of Scotland and her adolescence in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Having also travelled extensively throughout Asia and Australia, she has been exposed throughout her life to different cities and cultures, the wilderness and outback.

One of the gallery's youngest artists, Erraid has just recently graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee in 2020, after studying Fine Art there from 2016. She is currently based in Perthshire, working from her studio in Dundee, but she also considers Australia to be home after the time she has spent there.

Erraid is a modern abstract expressionist artist, whose vivid landscapes are based on memory and imagination, rather than copying nature. Her paintings are at the intersection of landscape and dreamscape, inscape and escape. She draws inspiration from the countryside in Scotland and from her overseas travels and Folklore and Færie have always inspired her.

Erraid uses a wide range of materials to create her works, including acrylic, pastel, collage and oil, producing pieces with many layers of colour and allowing translucent and opaque shapes to overlap. She loves to combine unusual colours and different textures onto the canvas to depict nature's wildness and mystery.

My art is my imagination coloured in on canvas.

My mind's eye gazes through my dreams, feelings and memories to what I observe and leads me to paint as I do. I perceive and interpret things and places based on the value and meaning I give them.