'Gift (Warm Tree Cave)' by Vivien McDermid (framed)
Gift (Warm Tree Cave)
Vivien McDermid
2024 Oil on card
32 x 20.5cm
Oak frame
£1,640
Vivien McDermid (b.1981) is a painter based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She graduated with a degree in fashion design from Edinburgh College of Art in 2005 and began to paint after the birth of her first child in 2007. In recent years she has exhibited in group and duo exhibitions but ‘Burnt Milk and Honey’ is her first solo show. McDermid describes painting as the language in which she feels she can most fluently communicate and untangle the experiences of being human. For her, the act of painting is a continual strengthening of the bridge which joins the inner and external worlds. She explains “Painting often feels to me like a kind of excavation or an unburying of something lost. I dig for what might be tangible within my compulsive daydreams. I like to feel as though I’m unearthing something precious; something that is all at once mysterious and familiar”. Taste, bite and colour are often the starting points for new work: Sour sweets, candles, lichen, a glare of autumn sun, glowing flowers in the window of a dark room.
Gift (Warm Tree Cave)
Vivien McDermid
2024 Oil on card
32 x 20.5cm
Oak frame
£1,640
Vivien McDermid (b.1981) is a painter based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She graduated with a degree in fashion design from Edinburgh College of Art in 2005 and began to paint after the birth of her first child in 2007. In recent years she has exhibited in group and duo exhibitions but ‘Burnt Milk and Honey’ is her first solo show. McDermid describes painting as the language in which she feels she can most fluently communicate and untangle the experiences of being human. For her, the act of painting is a continual strengthening of the bridge which joins the inner and external worlds. She explains “Painting often feels to me like a kind of excavation or an unburying of something lost. I dig for what might be tangible within my compulsive daydreams. I like to feel as though I’m unearthing something precious; something that is all at once mysterious and familiar”. Taste, bite and colour are often the starting points for new work: Sour sweets, candles, lichen, a glare of autumn sun, glowing flowers in the window of a dark room.
Gift (Warm Tree Cave)
Vivien McDermid
2024 Oil on card
32 x 20.5cm
Oak frame
£1,640
Vivien McDermid (b.1981) is a painter based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She graduated with a degree in fashion design from Edinburgh College of Art in 2005 and began to paint after the birth of her first child in 2007. In recent years she has exhibited in group and duo exhibitions but ‘Burnt Milk and Honey’ is her first solo show. McDermid describes painting as the language in which she feels she can most fluently communicate and untangle the experiences of being human. For her, the act of painting is a continual strengthening of the bridge which joins the inner and external worlds. She explains “Painting often feels to me like a kind of excavation or an unburying of something lost. I dig for what might be tangible within my compulsive daydreams. I like to feel as though I’m unearthing something precious; something that is all at once mysterious and familiar”. Taste, bite and colour are often the starting points for new work: Sour sweets, candles, lichen, a glare of autumn sun, glowing flowers in the window of a dark room.