Eric Cruikshank

About Eric Cruikshank

b. 1975 United Kingdom based in Dundee. Eric Cruikshank studied Painting and Drawing at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 1997.

Eric Cruikshank takes landscape as an initial starting point within his practice. His drawings and paintings are not about literal presentation; instead, the focus is on the emotive qualities of place. Using an objective palette tied to the Scottish landscape, colour acts as a vehicle to reveal the picture planes underlying points of reference.

With the structure, design, and colour harmony being grounded in the everyday, the viewer is encouraged to readdress notions of their surroundings, where the familiar is opened up and made full of possibility.