Lynne Douglas

As a professional photographer I travel often to the islands of northern Scotland to make my images in places that provoke a profound emotional reaction. The colours, the textures, the wildness of the places and the history are all intertwined in a fascinating, and often bewildering melting pot of sensation that forces me to make art.

After moving many times to get to where I should be, I now live on top of a cliff at the northern end of the Isle of Skye. Skye is a large and very beautiful island in the far north of Scotland; a place of inspiration, myth and legend. The beauty of the landscape draws artists and walkers, photographers and lovers of Nature like a magnet, and I am likewise smitten. Skye has a ruggedness and intense green hills that would make anyone pick up a camera or a paintbrush.

My work has moved through variations on a theme of movement and colour. Whether the camera moves or I move or the landscape moves it is all the same. Colours, moving blending and soaking into one another create a sense of playfulness, the feeling you get when the wind is in your hair on a bright sunny day. More and more I wonder if there is any end to how one can capture the colours, the lines and the essence of a place.

In my studi...

Despite having an intense love and desire to be an Artist from a young age, I found myself with a career in Science. That said, even when at the peak of my career in Clinical Research and in between my role bringing up two daughters as a single parent, I always found time for Art. I played with Painting and Drawing for many years but eventually settled to Photography and in 2012 started a journey that has not ended.

I am self taught but as a researcher and scientist I naturally research everything until I understand where to start. I have spent almost as much time researching and delving into art as I have making it.

Exhibition at Sky Art Gallery, Building 63, Seoul Dec 2020 - July 2021

Museum of Colours in Seoul, Korea November 2019.

Illumination: An Exhibition of Fine Art Photography
Oct - Nov 2013 Agora Gallery, Chelsea, NEW YORK

Exhibition at Colintraive Hotel, Argyll