Rowena Comrie

Glasgow based painter trained at University of Reading .  Rowena has consistently exhibited for the past 35 years and her work is held in public and private art collections, notably Aberdeen Art Gallery & The Women's Art Collection, Cambridge University.

Educated at the University of Reading, taught by Terry Frost and Mali Morris, I have used the aesthetics of colourfield and abstract expressionism as potent means of communication. Working from my Glasgow studio, I continue to capture fleeting visions that arrive from long developed ideas. My method requires a spontaneous and energetic means of paint application tempered by an objective assessment of chance occurrences, known to surrealists as ‘Objective Chance’.  I spent my youth in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and those seaside years left a lasting love of coastal environments, sublime horizons and infinite skies.  I have now been based in Glasgow for 13 years having previously spent 20 years in Aberdeen.