Ready for a rural revolution
Roost Design
The Herald — November 2010
On a bright autumn day, Kirsty Wither is in her Brighton studio playing Nick Cave and putting the finishing touches to her newest paintings. The Scottish painter,who graduated from Gray’s School of Art 20 years ago this year, is feeling optimistic. “I do feel I’ve developed over that time, and I’m enjoying the fact that I’m putting more paint on my canvas, using fresher and more subtle colours, and have a wider range of looser and tighter handling,” says the 42-year-old, whose breathtaking work with flowers has found considerable commercial success. “It feels good to evolve. But the thing I’m noticing most is that I’m reacting more positively to landscape painting than ever before. At the moment they seem to have more potential.”
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