Originally from Tillicoultry in Clackmannanshire, Nicola McInally graduated in 2001 from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, with a BA (Hons) Fine Art, specialising in Painting. After developing her practice for several years, she received a Visual Artist Craft Makers Award from Creative Scotland (VACMA), which led to her membership at Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop (FDPW), to explore etching techniques. Nicola continues to be an active member of FDPW and works between the print workshop and her Outer Spaces studio in Dunfermline. “Memories and drawings contemplating autobiography, and landscape form the basis of my paintings and prints. As a painter and printmaker, I enjoy merging both processes together and fascinated by the various processes used within printmaking. In my prints, layers of painted rice paper, used within the chine-colle process, are held by a rhythmic flow of etched patterns. Repeat patterns can be found in all my artworks as either a soothing, meditative form or with energetic mark-making to illustrate the contrasts of the Scottish Landscape and my memories within them.”