Artists
Denise Davis’s paintings and drawings are inspired mainly by the human form and the hills and coastlines that form the magnificent Scottish Highland landscape where she lives and works. Denise has studied the human form and life modelled for over ten years. Her life paintings and drawings are full of movement and change, often with only slight suggestions that the form exists. Her latest life work, however, is more realistic, concentrating on light and dark, and the emergence of the figure from a space. Her landscape work focuses on the vast areas of water, coast, and mountains about her Highland home. Denise’s use of colour is bold and distinct, but constant blending and layering creates a softness and depth. Her most recent series of landscape paintings are inspired by aerial photographs, map studies, and regular hill and coastal walks. Althought the paintings may appear as abstract, they are impressions of observations and personal feelings about the coastlines and contours of the land.