Dylan Mackenzie

Dylan has a diagnosis of ASD [Autism Spectrum Disorder]. This impacts his ability to communicate - he is (mostly) non-verbal, and as a result this affects his learning and emotional development. Dylan will likely require support throughout his life. Nonetheless, he is physically fit and active, loving and good humoured. 

His love of the outdoors inspires his artistic practice, and he attends regular classes and workshops at Project Ability - a Glasgow-based visual arts organisation which creates artistic opportunities for people of all ages with disabilities and people with lived experience of mental ill-health.

He explores experiences through lyrical and expressive mark making, translating visual scenes into physical, and frequently adding gathered natural materials as mediums, making his work tactile and connecting to an oft visited landscape, while depicting moments of looking and reflecting – of receptivity.

Although his compositions do contain an element of a preconceived notion that guides, they also reveal themselves, discovered and elaborated in the course of their execution and capturing an element of that moment, and at a minimum express the sheer joy of covering something in paint.