Eric Cruikshank

2025 Upcoming Artist-in-Residence • Painter

“The works operate as a bridge between abstraction and representation – distinct yet inseparable, continuously emerging and receding.”

This artist’s work delves into the emotive essence of place, moving beyond literal representation to explore the interplay of landscape, memory, and possibility. Inspired by the Scottish landscape, a carefully chosen palette reveals picture planes that reimagine the everyday. By inviting viewers to see the familiar anew, the artist creates a connection between design, structure, and the spirit of place.

Through meticulous layering and subtraction techniques, the artist achieves surfaces of refined balance, free of brush marks. Subtle gradations and shifting hues evoke sensations of time and memory, encouraging quiet contemplation. These open colorfields provide space for personal interpretation, blending abstraction and representation to create a profound dialogue between viewer and landscape.

Upcoming Artists-in-Residence

2025 • Painter & Fibre artist

2025 • Painter

2025 • Painters

2025 • Painter

Past Artists-in-Residence

2024 • Multidisciplinary artist

2024 • New media artist

2024 • Comic book author

2024 • Painter

2024 • Painter

2023—24 • Painter

2023 • Playwright

2023 • Textile artist

2023 • Visual artists

2023 • Painter

2023 • Painters

Ceramicist • Permanent artist-in-residence

Eric Cruikshank

2025 Upcoming Artist-in-Residence • Painter

“The works operate as a bridge between abstraction and representation – distinct yet inseparable, continuously emerging and receding.”

This artist’s work delves into the emotive essence of place, moving beyond literal representation to explore the interplay of landscape, memory, and possibility. Inspired by the Scottish landscape, a carefully chosen palette reveals picture planes that reimagine the everyday. By inviting viewers to see the familiar anew, the artist creates a connection between design, structure, and the spirit of place.

Through meticulous layering and subtraction techniques, the artist achieves surfaces of refined balance, free of brush marks. Subtle gradations and shifting hues evoke sensations of time and memory, encouraging quiet contemplation. These open colorfields provide space for personal interpretation, blending abstraction and representation to create a profound dialogue between viewer and landscape.

Upcoming Artists-in-Residence

2025 • Painter & Fibre artist

2025 • Painter

2025 • Painters

2025 • Painter

Past Artists-in-Residence

 2024 • Multidisciplinary artist

2024 • New media artist

2024 • Comic book author

2024 • Painter

2024 • Painter

2023—24 • Painter

2023 Guest Resident • Playwright

2023 • Textile artist

2023 • Visual artists

2023 • Painter

2023 • Painters

Ceramicist • Permanent artist-in-residence