Ails McGee
This small collection comprises of studies of the North East Coast, especially the pre-dawn light. Ails works quickly in her sketchbook – sometimes the studies lead to large scale canvases, sometimes, as with this collection, they are removed and framed.
Much of Ails' work is informed by the bleak, bitter beauty of the Scottish Borders, the place in which she was born and spent the first 25 years of her life before she moved to York to open The ArtSpace. She has enjoyed success over the last 3 years selling her calming seascapes and landscapes, but is now looking to add a discord here and there to darken things up a little. "The whole 'chill out' phase has moved on, and people are less interested in all things calm as they are mixing things up a little. If I paint a pleasant scene, that's great, but it's pretty important to me to find a suggestion of something darker than just prettiness, whether it's in the form of tone, or a change in the composition, or even the inclusion of something - a fence, a wall, a tree or two. Northern artists like Jake Attree, Christine Alder, Amrik Varkalis seem to be hitting it right, that mix of light and dark, sweet and sour, and that's what I'm aiming for."
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