Sandra Vick

Artist biography
Sandra Vick is a painter living just outside Edinburgh at the foot of the Pentland Hills Regional Park. Sandra came to art later in life, completing a foundation diploma at Leith School of art, and going on to study drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art as an undergraduate and then won a scholarship for postgraduate study. In her recent work, Sandra is interested in exploring our place in the landscape, and about how it is part of us and we are part if it. Sandra works in a variety of media to explore her theme, including watercolour, acrylic and oil. Sandra’s paintings have been exhibited across the UK and are in private collections worldwide.


Artist Statement 2024
My latest work is about the landscape. It’s about how it is part of us and we are part if it. How the clearance of land in Scotland left many ruins of houses and other memories of humans in the landscape. How, inspired by Jon Muir, we leave “only footprints” that add up to scarred landscapes and the consequent conservation projects. How through our use of mobile phones, every part of the landscape is now documented, shared through social media and images then the more remote and wild places are more known about and further footprints are...

awards and prizes
2014 awarded "highly commended" at Wildlife Artist of the Year 2014 exhibition
2006 Daler Rowney Prize, Edinburgh College of Art
2005 Andrew Grant Bequest Prize, Edinburgh College of Art
2002 Andrew Grant Bequest Award Travel Scholarship, Edinburgh College of Art
2001 Andrew Grant Bequest Prize, Edinburgh College of Art
1998 Cairncross Prize in Economics

art education to date
2005-08 MFA Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art
2001-05 BA (Hons) Painting, Edinburgh College of Art
2000-01 Foundation in Art and Design awarded with Distinction, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh

Selected Exhibitions:
2024 Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2024 Royal Scottish Society of Watercolour Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
2017 Wildlife Artist of the year 2017, Mall Galleries, London
2017 Green Gallery, Dollar,
2016 Iona House Gallery, Oxfordshire
2015 Green Gallery, Buchlyvie, Stirling
2015 ScotlandArt Gallery, Glasgow
2015 McGill Duncan Gallery, Castle Douglas.
2015 Artpistol Gallery, Glasgow.
2015 Shortlisted and selected for Wildlife Artist of the Year 2015 exhibition, London.
2015 Delamore Arts 2015, Devon.
2015 Tig Gallery, Tighnabruiach.
2014 Gallery Heinzel Contemporary, Aberdeen.
2014 The Found Gallery, Dunbar.
2014 Shortlisted, selected and awarded “highly commended” for WAY2014, London.
2013 ‘The Natural Eye” SWLA Annual Exhibition, London.
2013 If I were an handbag designer, Suburbian Pavillion, Edinburgh.
2012 Scotlandart.com gallery, Glasgow.
2012 Dancing Light Gallery, West Linton.
2009 Creative Visions of Nature, Scottish Seabird Centre, North Berwick.
2009 11th International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, University of Leeds.
2008 Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield,
2008 Aberfeldy Artist’s Book Festiva...