Shona Grant
Website: https://www.shonagrantsart.com/
Email: Shonagrant99@gmail.com
Click on a thumbnail image above to enlarge.
Atlantic Ocean: South Uist. Photographic print exhibited in RSA 2016. 420mm x 594mm.
Stones Sea Sky. Outer Hebrides. Photographic print exhibited in RSA 2017. 530mm x 530mm
Common Ground. Commissioned double concertina artists' book. Mixed media. 250mm x 200mm. Concertina extending to 2 metres
'Winter Woodland' tunnel book. Photographic artists' book. Currently shortlisted for the RA Summer Exhibition 2019. 210mm x 280mm x 30mm
'Venation' artists' book. Photographic scrolls and natural materials. 160mm x 195mm x 50mm
'Land Lines' is the cover image of my artists' book of the same title and has also sold as a print on it's own.
Statement
I am an artist working with photography and drawing/painting, and I also make artists’ books from my work. Much of my artistic output is influenced by my childhood growing up on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. I am particularly drawn to coastal areas, and my preferred seasons to visit are the autumn and winter months when the weather can quickly change and the skies and light can be incredibly dramatic. In the Outer Hebrides the huge skies dominate the landscape and they are very much part of the photographs and drawings that I make. No trees grow on South Uist and when I visited the mainland as a child I was fascinated by the sound they made on a blustery day and I loved going for walks in dense woodland that enveloped you in its woodiness. It was the complete opposite to the wide open spaces of South Uist that I was used to. I am still fascinated by trees and I often draw woodland in my preferred medium of charcoal.I have always enjoyed the book form. For me, the weight and feel of a book in the hand matters almost as much as its content, so it was a natural progression to use my photographs and drawings in handmade books in such a way that the book becomes an art object in its own right.
