Kirstie Cohen was born in Edinburgh in 1963 and raised in North Berwick, Kirstie was awarded a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art and carried out postgraduate studies there from 1987-88.
Kirstie Cohen’s work has been influenced by the sweeping panoramas of the east coast as well as the Highlands where she now lives. Her landscapes are suffused with the mysterious atmosphere of the Scottish hills and coast. Working from her studio on an isolated Highland croft, she creates magical evocations of wild hills and shores onto canvas. The elemental essence of land and sea are evoked using masterfully worked veils of oil paint like spun silk - to powerful effect. Highlights of jewel-pure colour evoke the shimmer of sky and water and sunlight above strong presences of mountain or rock. ‘My painting lies within the context of the northern romantic landscape tradition. It is overall a more emotional cathartic response. The ongoing process of applying paint to canvas, gradually building layer upon layer, eventually evolves its own luminosity and depth,’ she explains.
Kirstie Cohen has been widely exhibited, for example, in the Andrew Usiskin Gallery, Hampstead, London (solo exhibition); Mansfield Park Gallery, Glasgow (solo exhibition) and the Heinzel Gallery in Aberdeen, amongst many others. This collectible work has also been awarded the Nancy Graham Memorial Prize; Chalmers Jarvise Prize; Art TM Open Prize and the Canon ABT Award, showing the range of her appeal and the quality of the work. Her paintings are powerful, atmospheric and can have a transformative effect on their environment.
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