Sandra Vick

Sandra Vick is a painter living just outside Edinburgh. Sandra came to art later in life, completing a foundation diploma at Leith School of Art, going on to study drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art as an undergraduate then won a scholarship for postgraduate study.

Sandra works in a variety of media to explore her theme, including watercolour, acrylic and oil. Sandra’s paintings have been exhibited across the UK and are in private collections worldwide.

Since graduating from ECA 20 years ago, Sandra has been drawn to the natural world for inspiration. For 15 years her work was solely about our native birds, their habits, the psychology of behaviour and identification taking away colour so capturing exactly what made them be them.  She watched them, drew them, photographed them and worked out how to capture them without any use of colour. Her paintings are accurate enough for any birdwatcher to be able to identify the birds painted, just from their silhouette.  For the past two years she has turned to their landscape - the tops of mountains, the coast, the farmed fields. In this move, her focus has become that of time - the passing of time. From the larger picture of the formation of the landscape, the erosion by glaciers, the human erosion from use and passage, the effect of the climate, the effect of seasons, our presence. Her practise parallels this, each painting takes time, is a process of adding, taking away, a passing of