Like a Green & Yellow Melancholy
By Evelyn Pottie

All of Evelyn's work is sketched 'in situ', but developed in the studio in Inverness. Her body of work includes paintings in oils and acrylics on board, canvas and paper, but much of her work uses a screenprint process. In a pamphlet on her work, Evelyn describes how this process involves working from a 'master drawing' which forms the basis for the stencils needed for each of the different colours in the print.

Evelyn describes how she has always been in love with the countryside, developing her work from sketches drawn in the highlands of Scotland. She was educated in Edinburgh and Aberdeen and gained a DA in Drawing and Painting from Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen. After 22 years as a teacher, Evelyn decided to work full time as an artist and printmaker, working for more than 12-years as a screen print technician with Highland Printmakers in Inverness. Of her work, Evelyn has said "if it encourages its viewers to take a longer look at the landscape which we may be in danger of losing...a look at its colours, shapes and forms…a look at its every changing light and shade...a look at its history and its future, then I feel I will have achieved something".