Izzy Thomson graduated from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen in 2016, with a First Class BA (Hons) in Painting. She won several awards at her Degree show, and was then selected for the year-long Graduate Residency at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh. After that Izzy returned to the Highlands and was awarded a Dewar Arts Award for a studio in Wasps, Inverness Creative Academy, where she is now based.
See the below slide for Izzy Thomson’s body of work from ‘Must Be Scene In Person’ at Leith Makers.
Izzy’s portfolio
Like peering out to sea the from the edge of a cliff, my paintings are a meeting place of two worlds. Often painted with a crepuscular palette, they have the language of a dream one has just awoken from and feel like imagined yet inhabitable spaces. Like stage-sets, they act as a device: an invitation into a ‘tapsalteerie’ world, where one finds characters who are impervious to their environment, amidst leaning lumps of land and unsettled seas.
As well as their fairy-tale like allure, my works are rooted in reality. They are a way to bring two worlds together- the real and the imagined/ the human and the non-human- in the hope of rekindling what is, perhaps, a misplaced familiarity and sensitivity to our natural world.
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