A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, Margaretann now lives and works in Glasgow. Her work explores the Hebridean and West Coast landscape through use of mixed media, creating surfaces of rich colour and sumptuous textures with paint, often incorporating layers of delicate paper. My approach is intuitive rather than analytical; there is deliberate tension between areas of abstraction and finer detail. Most 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.”