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Limited Edition giclée of original oil on canvas by Abigail McLellan. Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 195. This image is printed on a traditional acid-free 310gm² artist's paper with a China-white, textured surface.

Abigail McLellan

Abigail was born in Middlesbrough in 1969. She moved to Dumfries in southwest Scotland in 1983 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1987 to 1991. She has since won numerous awards, including the prestigious Morrison Scottish Portrait Award.

She continues to live and work in Glasgow and exhibits regularly in London and Edinburgh. Her travels both in the U.K and abroad have been influential in the development of her work - particularly trips to New York and Japan. Over the years she has developed her method of painting in acrylics involving a build up of many layers of carefully selected colour with varying degrees of transparency. The resulting depth of colour, often fused with intricate patterns achieves a rich and tonally sumptuous composition. Her technique is successfully employed in her landscape and portrait work as well as in her better known paintings of flowers.

“McLellan's plants offer the essence of their organic character in a distinctive visual shorthand. It is as if they have been made according to the simplest of analytical descriptions. The result is a series of brilliant, celebratory images of seductive beauty. While these can certainly be seen as part of an essentially Scottish tradition of painting, betraying the source of the artist's training, they also speak of a universal language, which cuts across obvious divides of geographical and art-historical convention. These are instantly engaging images, which persuade the viewer temporarily to abandon reality and enter a world of possibly unconsidered beauty.” lain Gale, Art Critic for Scotland on Sunday, November 1996

Abigail continues to develop and refine her work, extending her repertoire and exploring the possibilities of abstraction. She has also produced designs for rugs and embroidery and is enthusiastic about extending her talents wherever a creative opportunity arises.

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