Night Edges is a triptych abstract oil painting evoking seascapes by Victoria Orr Ewing

I make paintings that evoke landscape, at times with an adherence to reality, at other times favouring reduction to abstracted colour fields. They hint at some of the ways we interact with landscape - notions of the vastness of cosmic space to small intimate moments of particular light in our personal environments. Or at times, abstracted images from our imaginations and memories

The commonality between them is a specific kind of light, a radiance between darker shapes. I select times of the day or weather conditions to evoke an atmosphere of melancholic grace. I give equal importance to every element in the painting, ensuring no hierarchy of meaning.

My paintings can be devoid of detail but often create a small visual barrier, beyond which the viewer is rewarded with an infinite expanse of space. Empty wild places, often stark and sublime, carrying a hint of ominous beauty. My sources are increasingly diverse. I work from life and in the landscape, on the open moor or marsh. The more personal view from a kitchen window, blurred photography and frozen scenes television or film.

I am interested in liminal space - places between places, edges and borders. I perceive borders not just as physical demarcations on a map, but as complex symbols that define, divide, and connect us. Borders are multifaceted; they represent safety and exclusion, identity and division, freedom and restriction.

I am portraying the nuanced and often contradictory nature of the spaces we inhabit.

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Solo Exhibitions

2024 Intimate Immensity, 11 Avenue Studios Gallery, London
2020 The Light Between, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
2019 Ebb and Flood, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
2018 Of Land and Stone, 11 Avenue Studios Gallery, London
2014 Sombras Naturales. El Cuartito, Gaucin, Malaga
2012 Scottish Skies, Panter and Hall, London
2009 Light on Andalucia, Panter and Hall, London
2002-16  Art Gaucin Open Studios, Gaucin, Malaga
2001 Moroccan Paintings. La Fructuosa, Gaucin. Malaga
1988 Organic 2. Wilkinthrope farm Studio. Somerset
1996 Opening exhibition, Glassworks Production Studio, Soho, London
1995 Organic Work, Creelers, Edinburgh
1991 Asian Sketches. Black Bull Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions

2025 Gallery At Home Open Call Summer Exhibition, Gallery At Home,Abergavenny, Wales.
2025 Irving Gallery Open Call Exhibition, Irving Gallery, Oxford.
2024 Short Listed, Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2024 Rhythm & Blue, Kevis House Gallery, Petworth, West Sussex.
2023 Royal Institute Of Painters In Watercolour, Mall galleries, London
2023 ING Discerning Eye, Mall galleries, London
2023 Kevis House Group Exhibition, Petworth.
2023 Wells Art Contemorary, Wells Cathedral, Somerset.
2022 Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness. Kevis House Gallery, Petworth, West Sussex
2021 Liberating Landscapes. Kevis House Gallery, Petworth, West Sussex
2021 Fourteen. McAllister Thomas, Godalming, Surrey
2019 Winter Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
2019 Galloway Artists. Fine Art Society, Harbour Cottage Gallery, Kirkcudbright
2017 Selected for Bath Society of Artists open. Victoria Gallery, Bath
2016 Selected for RA summer exhibition. RA London
2014 Group exhibition, Nando Arguelles Gallery, Sotogrande, Cadiz
2013 The Scottish Show, Panter and Hall, London
2009 The Scottish Show, Panter and Hall, London
2006 Gibraltar International Art Competition. 1st prize
2005 3 woman, Atelier Gallery, Gaucin, Malaga
2002 Summer exhibition. New Grafton Gallery, London
2002 Los Canos Gallery, Guadiaro, Cadiz
1996 Kitchen art. Christopher Hull Gallery, London.
Art in Nature, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucester.
Jaisalmer in Jeopardy, Groucho club, London
1995 Banking on Art. Clachen Moor Gallery, Galloway. 1st prize
1991 The Discerning Eye. Mall Galleries, London.
Save the Rhino, Bonhams, London
1988 The Sunday Times Watercolour exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Art for Youth, Mall Galleries, London.
Art for Earth Action, Rawlings street, London
1987 Byzantium Gallery, Edinburgh.
Art for Youth, Mall Galleries, London.

Awards

2006 33rd Gibraltar International Art Competition, 1st prize
1995 Bank of Scotland Art prize
1986 Thomas Girtin watercolour prize

Collections

Turcan Connell, Glasgow.

Cawdor Castle, Scotland.

The City & Guilds Institute, London.

Ministry of Culture, Gibraltar.

Glassworks Post Production Studio