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About Shona
Shona grew up in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She studied at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, but soon after moved to London, where she works and has a studio. In addition she has a base in Aberdeenshire, a Landscape that is in her bones and main well of inspiration.
SHONA ELRICK - BIO
Shona Elrick grew up in the open rolling farmland of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where she would spend every available moment outdoors playing, helping out and exploring the local countryside. It is was in this setting that nurtured a deep-rooted and passionate bond to landscape, and therein began expressing her feelings of wonder and awe through paint and pastels.
She studied Fine Art - Painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen 1982-1986. During her studies her work was selected to be exhibited at The Scottish Royal Academy and Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Significant influences at this time were to be the work of Henri Matisse and Richard Diebenkorn: Matisse, for both his joyful play of vidid colour as well as his “radical flattening” of imagery on the canvas, and Richard Diebenkorn for his painterly mark-making qualities. These aspects and fascinations still endure in Shona Elrick’s work.
Within a year of graduating she moved to London - a temporary move that finds her still there! Finding herself at a bit of a creative loss, she embarked upon a part time degree in Ceramics at Middlesex University. To Shona’s surprise, working with clay allowed her to explore the qualities of the traditionally 2D mediums of collage and mark-making; this provided the breakthrough in her painting which she has continued with to this day.
Shona Elrick has exhibited mainly in London: including a joint exhibition with Ceramist Sue Paraskeva at the Hiefer Gallery and a wide range of galleries, opens and Art Fairs. Her Solo exhibition - Paintings to the Wild, 2022, at Willesden Gallery was triumphant success. She was an active member of the ArtWest Art Trail 2009 - 2023. Latterly she has exhibited annually and more with The Riverside Artists Group, based in West London.
Shona’s continues to live and work in London, as well as increasingly spending time at her family cottage in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She also works part-time as an Art Psychotherapist.