Eona Murray Aitken
Ordinary Member   < ARTISTS

email: ema651@yahoo.co.uk  
Born in Glasgow; lives in Edinburgh.

Selected Annual & Group exhibitions:

Glasgow:
Compass Gallery Christmas Exhibition
Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
The R.G.I. Kelly Gallery, Postcard Exhibition 2003
Art Exposure Gallery, regular mixed exhibitions and 2-person show 1994
Strathclyde University Staff Club, 2-person show 1993

Edinburgh:
Society of Scottish Artists. See www.s-s-a.org
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
Visual Arts Scotland
“City Trees”; Bellevue Gallery and World Heritage Trust, Charlotte Square 2002
Leith Open Exhibition 1993
Laing Art Competition, Talbot Rice Gallery
“The Edinburgh Scene”, City Art Centre 1986

Miscellaneous:

Falle Fine Art, St. Helier, Jersey 2008
Paisley Art Institute., Paisley, Renfrewshire 2007
Beltane Studios, Peebles 2006/7
Amnesty International Exhibition, Duff House, Banff 2003
Broughton Gallery, by Biggar, Lanarkshire 1988, 1994
Art Fair: Europ’Art, Espace Auteuil, Paris 2002

Various solo exhibitions around Scotland including MacLaurin Art Gallery, Ayr, 1984 and 1994.

CD of electronic music “Closely”, inspired by images from the exhibition “Looking More Closely” in the MacLaurin Gallery, composed, engineered and produced by Peri Urban during 1994 and performed live at private view of exhibition. Recorded on CD 1998; hear it on www.periurban.com/page4.html

Awards: Anne Wishart Purchase Award, Society of Scottish Artists 1996

Other websites: www.scotlandsartists.com

Collections:

Motherwell District Library, Lanarkshire
Strathclyde Regional Council, Dept. of Education, Hamilton
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Art in Healthcare, Edinburgh
Dr. Helen Cargill Thompson collection, Strathclyde University, Glasgow
Private collections in Britain, France, Sardinia and California

My work is influenced by gardens and landscape, particularly the various styles, surface textures and meditative atmosphere of Japanese gardens. I tend to favour simplified forms, muted colours and the use of leaves, sawdust, sand, patterns and textures, to convey a feeling about a particular moment or place.

Recent work is concerned mainly with the play of light and texture on the earth’s surface. While the images may be considered landscape-based, there is also an element of exploration or discovery in the process of painting, as perspective and details are altered by the effects of light. Some take on the appearance of views from space, while others involve close scrutiny of the ground as in geological study or archaeological excavation.