Thank you to Royal Academy of Arts Assistant Curator Helen Record for using it as the British Landscapes research group image!

The image is a still from my film Landscape in Lockdown/Glen Muick, which depicts the five-panel painting Glen Muick hanging between trees in the landscape. It's just fantastic to see it with the Tate logo above, can't quite believe it! 

The commissioned film responds to 'Landscape in Lockdown' with a contemplative recording of my painting Glen Muick. 

Aiming to counteract the lack of physical connection in lockdown, I captured a more intimate experience of landscape, closely filming the drawn and sewn lines of the canvases in a dreamscape-like installation. Filming this way evokes the textures and tangibility of the landscape in a more immersive way than photography. The film is not perfected and glossy, instead it embraces the honesty of the painting and the experience of walking. The exposed frayed edges of fabric, loose threads and prominent brush marks lay bare the construction of the painting, asking the viewer to contemplate the process of labour. 

Another aspect of this film is the intention of slowing down, appreciating what’s around us. The audio of gently echoing footsteps transports the viewer to the hillside, and there is a feeling of growing proximity to the landscape and more freedom as lockdown comes closer to ending. The film cuts to hills just outside of Glasgow, and as the camera pans round we see the paintings unraveled from the installation, celebrated in the landscape.

If you would like to view the 2 minute film, you can find the link here.