Keswick art gallery Northern Lights is holding Dorothy T Ramsay’s first solo show of landscape mountain art from Friday.
Drawing inspiration from the fells around her home on the flanks of Blencathra, Dorothy uses a distinctive colour palette to capture the forms, light and volatile weather of the Lake District.
Fifteen works will be on show at the gallery and the exhibition is Dorothy’s first solo show at the gallery and includes recently completed works. The paintings are predominantly acrylic on board two oil on canvas, three large pastels behind glass and two collages also feature.
This year, Dorothy said, she was working full-time in acrylics and mixed media, playing between abstract and romantic landscape yet at times allowing realism to distort.
Dorothy started taking drawing lessons at Shipley Art Gallery when she was aged eight. After studying at Sunderland art college, where her focus was on printmaking, Dorothy gained a degree in etching at Camberwell College of Arts and went on to complete a masters degrees in art and in systemic family therapy.
She used skills acquired at the Highlands and Islands School for Crofters, and with her friends she started a weaving shed at the Findhorn Foundation in the east of Scotland, studied tapestry with the head of Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh later running a weaving shed at the former Wetheriggs Pottery, near Penrith.
Key influences on Dorothy’s art include Gobelins tapestry, the Cumbrian artist Winifred Nicholson and the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee.
Dorothy been represented by Northern Lights Gallery since April this year. The exhibition runs until October 24.
