Bruise Drawing

Eleanor Adair is a Scottish figurative artist who was born and grew up in Glasgow. Her work is concerned with self-consciousness and identity and tries to capture the constant shifts between the physical and emotional expressions of human form. "I'm heavily drawn towards figurative art and find the human form the best place to explore those extremities that make the body talk. The bodies that materialise in my own art become an alternative account of the routine human form, bodies for eyes that like to wander. Recently I've concentrated on portraiture and drawn on neolithic and paleolithic archaeology for inspiration. I hope these observations offer vision into much of my portraiture, so that each face crosses boundaries of time and culture and brings something of our cultural past to the foreground".