In this exciting new body of work Auriol Innes uses abstraction to explore her memories of landscape. We are in the assured hands of an artist who has spent a lifetime drawing and painting figuratively, she steers us on a steady path away from the purely descriptive to a kaleidoscopic, visual, interior world. Her subject matter is the vivid recollections of landscapes that she has drawn and painted before. Some are of places she has long connections with, like the Hebridean island of Colonsay, others are brief but powerful experiences in new and strange landscapes that have stayed with her. But don’t worry, you won’t find any wishy washy nostalgia here, the memories she has put down on paper for us are compellingly powerful and they absolutely zing. Through shape and colour she has recreated the startle of orange lichen on the top of a jagged black rock above the tide line of a glittering rock pool or the impossibility of a primrose in sand dunes on the edge of the vast North Atlantic Ocean.

Tor Falcon