Claudia Massie is a young Scottish landscape artist, based in Perthshire. Follow the links above to view paintings or find out about exhibitions. Visit the blog for images of new paintings and further updates.

“My work focuses on the Scottish landscape. It surrounds me, it is where I live and where I grew up; it is intrinsic to the person I am. I am attracted to certain elements of the landscape: the light, the colours, the forms of the geology and the vegetation.

Much of my work is focused on transitional areas of the landscape: the shift between agriculture and wilderness, the edge of forestry, the geological fault zones.

The commercial forestry plantations that bestride the Scottish landscape appear again and again in my work - bold yet obscure signifiers of man’s impact on the land, impositions on the wilderness yet a curious kind of hermetic wilderness in themselves.

The landscape is defined by its geology and this is another theme to which I return often. My most recent work is centred on the Highland Boundary Fault, a dramatic transition zone that sits behind my home in Perthshire.