Kerry Souter is a contemporary Scottish abstract artist
known for her atmospheric, highly textured abstract seascape and landscape paintings.
Inspired by Scotland’s coastline, her work translates the emotional experience
of place into abstract compositions shaped by colour, texture, memory, and
atmosphere. Rather than depicting a specific location, her contemporary
Scottish art evokes the shifting light, eroded surfaces, and quiet rhythms of
the Scottish coast.
Her painting practice is intuitive and layered. Working with
acrylic mixed media and handmade collage papers, Kerry builds luminous,
textured abstract paintings through successive applications of paint and
surface manipulation. Layers are disrupted, worn back, and rebuilt over time,
echoing natural processes of erosion, growth, and change found along coastal
landscapes. This process allows traces of earlier decisions to remain visible,
giving each abstract painting a sense of depth, history, and movement.
Colour and surface play a central role in her abstract
coastal-inspired art. Her palette reflects the muted tones and shifting
atmospheric conditions of the Scottish coastline, while translucent glazes and
collage elements create depth and complexity. These contemporary abstract
paintings suggest balance and flow, capturing a sense of time that feels both
immediate and expansive. The work invites stillness and contemplation, offering
viewers an emotional connection to landscape through texture and mark-making.
Born in Dundee in 1970, Kerry studied Textile Design at
Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating with a BA (Hons) in 1992. Her
background in textiles continues to inform her sensitivity to materials,
surfaces, and surface construction. After a varied creative career, she began
exhibiting her work professionally in 2020. Now based in Ayr, Scotland, her
abstract paintings are held in private collections throughout the UK and
internationally.
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