Catriona Millar BA (hons) Fine Art
Artist's Work and Biography

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CATRIONA MILLAR

Set of 7 new giclee prints – very small edition numbering 25 each


Little Wing
34.5 x 46 cms
£300 unframed


Minstrel
31 x 31 cms
£250 unframed


The Good Listener
36.5 x 46 cm
£300 unframed

The Rehearsal
35.5 x 43.5 cms
£300 unframed

The New Maid
35 x 43.5 cms
£300 unframed

Whisperer
31 x 32 cms
£250 unframed

 

The Agency
£300 unframed

 

 

Artist's Statement

A figurative painter working in oil and mixed media Catriona Millar's works have an immediate impact but they are sustained by a deeper, compelling resonance that draws the viewer back time and again into their centre of gravity.

It has already been said by one critic that Catriona Millar's work ‘possesses an alchemical narrative' and just a few moments in the company of the high-energy figures she creates and you can sense the magic, the boldness and the truthfulness behind them. Their stories are indeed a sort of fluid magic.

Each character is alive with sharp draughtsmanship, and while they inhabit a different world it is still somehow familiar. The artist herself is right through every picture, sacrificed in a bravura display of colour and form that is as compelling as it is enigmatic.

As the artist herself says.

“I seem to be intent on filling space with interesting and arresting figures. Probably because I like people and I like crowds. I'm interested in the texture and pattern they make and the drama of their interaction. When you watch someone else of course you are in a sense learning to understand yourself.”

“People find my work variously uplifting, funny, disturbing, exciting and unusual. Which is probably about right.”

Exhibitions:  

2004

Tolquhon Gallery Summer Exhibition

Crovie Bi-Annual Exhibition

Peacock Visual Arts A5 Exhibition

2005

Royal Scottish Academy , Edinburgh

Aberdeen Artists Annual Exhibition

Larks Gallery Summer Exhibition, Ballater

Tolquhon Gallery Summer Exhibition, Tarves

Resipole Gallery Summer Exhibition, Acharacle

Rendezvous Galley Corridor Exhibition, Aberdeen

Rendezvous Gallery Scholarship Exhibition, Aberdeen

Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, October 2005 with Riverside Gallery

Christmas Exhibition, Riverside Gallery

2006

Glasgow Art Fair with Riverside Gallery