ERINCLARE SCRUTTON, HAZEL CASHMORE, CATE INGLIS

4 February - 2 March 2024

HAZEL CASHMORE

Hazel’s work originates from her experience of the Caithness landscape. Towering seas, huge skies, panoramic vistas, and brooding hills and moorland occupy her paintings, reflecting the qualities of Scotland’s most northerly mainland landscape. She is compelled to capture the ever-changing light which shifts across the natural environment revealing and changing the land.

Hazel was art tutor at North Highland College from 2004 to 2007. Since then Hazel has devoted her time exclusively to her own work. She says: 'I relocated to the Borders after living for many years in the Far Northern Highlands. This elemental landscape and my emotional response to it informed my work.
These constant themes of land and sea are, for me, places to escape to, embrace and inhabit, and make a statement about, sometimes expressing a present predicament or life event.
I have long been preoccupied with the quality of light – or the absence of it. Often dark, the Northern light also possess a brilliance which I try to replicate in my work.
I use acrylic paint for its quick-drying properties, allowing me to convey emotional urgency with gestural brush-marks, or by using thin layers to create depth and distance.'

Hazel has exhibited widely throughout Britain and has work in private collections in the UK, Canada, France and the USA.