Lida Hatrick Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1950 -

Artist's statement - LIDA HATRICK

Living in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills, I am inspired by the ever changing beauty of the wild moors and the contrast with the gentler, heavily farmed Merse area between the hills and Berwick on Tweed. The often spectacular geological features are tamed by the farmers fences, dry stone dykes and ancient paths which served as the main links between the cost and the hill communities.

My last series of works was painted on the burnt and regenerating heather of the Greenlaw moor. I paint outside and I am always surprised by the colour and light on the moor even in the bleakest time of winter. I try to open the surface of the canvas by using both line and brushwork to create the feeling of air, movement and light until the image of the landscape emerges. I am interested in the landscape moods and the marks left on it by the centuries of human activity. Farmers, forestry, grouse shooting, which necessitates a lot of heather burning and regeneration, ancient paths and the herring road through the wildest parts of the Lammermuirs. I like to take the landscape as a starting point for the structure of the painting , preserving the feel and experience of it and at the same time experimenting with the image to create a dynamic composition that is exciting for me.