New Collection Artists From 2025
As we step into the new year we feel it is important to reflect on 2025, a year which was a significant moment in the evolving life of Colstoun Arts, marked by the acquisition of new works including unique works, paintings, photographs and prints that deepen and extend the scope of our collection. Recent additions include works by Rob & Nicky Carter, Rose Electra Harris, Katie Paterson, Anna Perach, Georgia Peskett—artists whose practices engage rigorously with material, landscape, time and perception, and whose voices resonate strongly with the values that underpin our programme.
Alongside these acquisitions, we are equally grateful to have received generous donations of work from artists who have taken part in our residency programme: Orla Kane, Ioanna Limniou, Kathryn Lynch, Evie O’Connor and Corri-Lynn Tetz. These works stand as both a record of artistic enquiry developed at Colstoun and a testament to the lasting relationships formed through the residency.
Together, these additions reflect an ongoing commitment to dialogue, experimentation and care—shaping a collection that is both responsive to the present and attentive to what endures. additionally we are delighted to recieve the donation of a work from the estate of Luke Silva, an artist who’s work we deeply resonated with and who’s legacy we wish to help develop after his passing.
Below is an introductory paragraph on each of the artists that entered the Colstoun Art collection in 2025.
Rob & Nicky Carter: A london based husband and wife duo that work at the intersection of nature, artifice and illusion, where botanical forms are meticulously reconstructed through the language of photography. Working collaboratively, the artists are known for drawing on the traditions of still life and landscape while employing digital processes to produce images of extraordinary precision and clarity. Flowers, plants and natural phenomena are not simply depicted but reimagined, suspended in a state of heightened stillness that feels at once timeless and distinctly contemporary. In their work, the familiar is rendered strange, inviting a slow and attentive looking in which beauty is inseparable from a quiet, underlying unease
Orla Kane: creates work that unfolds through a deeply felt reimagining of landscape and memory, where the terrains of the Scottish Borders are not merely depicted but translated into evocative, dream‑laden forms. Her paintings and drawings weave together motifs of moons, suns, flowers and shifting landforms with an intuitive sense of colour and rhythm, allowing each composition to emerge as a poetic meditation on place, time and recollection. Kane’s delicate yet richly layered approach — whether in saturated coloured pencil, oil or mixed media on board and paper — invites viewers into a world where the boundaries between inner experience and the outer environment dissolve, revealing the imaginative potential of marking, memory and movement.
Rose Electra Harris: bridges the vivid energy of colour with an instinctive engagement with form and emotion, producing works that feel both exuberant and deeply personal. Trained initially as a printmaker and now working predominantly in large‑scale painting, her art draws on the natural world, memory and the expressive potential of mark‑making to create compositions that pulse with life and rhythm. Harris’s bold use of colour and texture resonates with a tactile sense of process, as layers of pigment and gesture build dynamic surfaces that invite the viewer into an immersive visual experience. Whether referencing floral motifs or abstracted spatial environments, her work celebrates the joyful potential of colour and form while retaining a subtle poetic complexity that rewards close and sustained looking.
Ioanna Limniou: work rooted in an evocative fusion of memory, landscape and lived experience, where oil paintings unfold like intimate narratives drawn from the quotidian rhythms of rural and communal life. Working predominantly in oils alongside crayons and watercolour pencils, Limniou renders figures, animals and environments with an expressionistic fluidity that bridges the classical and the contemporary, drawing inspiration from traditional Greek imagery, poetry and the sensory qualities of place. Her canvases, often animated by vibrant, layered colour and a subtle interplay between human and natural realms, invite viewers into scenes that feel at once nostalgic and immediate, revealing the enduring connections between beings and their surroundings. Across her work, familiar gestures and landscapes are transmuted into poetic visual stories — echoing the cycles of life, the richness of everyday rituals and the delicate threshold between past and present.
Kathryn Lynch: continually builds upon her back catalogue of poetic meditation on place, memory and the fleeting moments that punctuate everyday experience, having the ability to “only paint where she is”. Drawing on long walks through both urban and rural environments, she distils scenes of streets, waterways, sunlight and twilight into compositions that hover between representation and abstraction, allowing form and colour to evoke mood rather than literal detail. Through subtle, expressive brushwork and a nuanced handling of light and atmosphere, Lynch invites viewers into a world where familiar motifs — from boats and trees to seasonal shifts of sky and shadow — become touchstones for reflection and emotional resonance. Her work celebrates the poetry of place, translating the seen and the remembered into evocative visual narratives that feel both personal and universally accessible.
Evie O’Connor: has built a painting practice that engages with the myths and contradictions of contemporary life, drawing on her own archive of imagery alongside the relentless visual churn of social media to construct scenes that are at once seductive and disquieting. Her work examines the aspirational fantasies of wealth, leisure and status that saturate today’s cultural landscape, rendering vignettes of performative affluence — from sun-drenched pools to exclusive parties — with a keen eye for both their allure and their underlying inequalities. Through her compositional acuity and painterly precision, O’Connor invites reflection on class, aspiration and the psychology of desire, challenging viewers to confront the oft-uncomfortable realities behind the polished façades of contemporary imagery.
Katie Paterson: distinctive powerful work that is hard to categorise which unfolds through an extraordinary engagement with deep time, the cosmos and our fragile place within the natural world, where poetic ambition and scientific inquiry meet in quietly monumental form. Her multidisciplinary practice — spanning installation, sound, photography, text and conceptual artefacts — draws on extensive research and collaboration with scientists, astronomers and researchers to translate phenomena such as star death, glacial melt and geological change into experiences that are both intimate and vast. From planting a forest to supply paper for books that will only be printed a century hence, to mapping the locations of dead stars and creating a light bulb that simulates moonlight, Paterson’s projects invite reflection on existence, temporality and our shared future with a Romantic sensibility and minimalist precision. Her art intimately connects everyday experience with the farthest reaches of time and space, prompting wonder, humility and contemplation in equal measure.
Anna Perach: Known primarily for the elements of her practice weaves myth, craft and corporeality into a strikingly original visual language that challenges conventional boundaries between body, object and narrative. Working primarily through a painstaking tufting technique borrowed from carpet-making, she transforms domestic textiles into sculptural hybrids — wearable forms that are at once tactile, uncanny and richly symbolic. Drawing on ancient folklore, psychoanalytic thought and female archetypes, Perach’s work examines how personal and cultural stories shape identity, gender and the material trace of memory, inviting viewers to encounter figures that resonate with both mythic depth and lived experience. Whether activated through performance or presented as autonomous sculptural entities, her pieces blur the line between garment and body, interior and exterior, foregrounding craft as a potent means of exploring psychological and cultural terrain.
Georgia Peskett: reimagines the overlooked nuances of contemporary life through a painterly lens that is both intimate and expansive. Working primarily in oils — often layered with wax on silk to create translucent, evocative surfaces — she draws inspiration from photographic fragments of urban landscapes, commuters and everyday architecture, transforming seemingly mundane scenes into compositions rich with colour, atmosphere and psychological resonance. Peskett’s work navigates between representation and contemplation, imbuing façades, streets and fleeting moments with a poetic depth that elevates the quotidian into a space of reflection and meaning. Over decades of exhibiting internationally and featuring in prestigious contexts from the Royal Academy to global private and public collections, her evolving practice continues to explore themes of identity, transience and the fragile beauty inherent in the world around us.
Luke Silva: known for his powerful use of watercolour with a compelling and deeply personal visual language that bridges memory, vulnerability and imagined space. His paintings — often executed with a delicate yet expansive handling of pigment across paper and canvas — conjure constructed realms that sit between the real and the fictive, allowing familiar forms and objects to act as anchors within dream-like landscapes. Drawing on motifs as diverse as catastrophic fires, ceramic vessels and fragments of digital imagery, Silva’s work unfolds as a meditation on the tensions between devastation and renewal, attraction and fragility, offering a poetic reflection on internal experience and the wider world. Though his career was tragically cut short in 2024, his distinctive voice — informed by both lived experience and an acute sensitivity to psychological terrain — continues to resonate through exhibitions realised internationally.
Corri-Lynn Tetz: paints a compelling interrogation of the female figure and the visual languages through which identity, sensation and desire are depicted and constructed. Working from an archive of found imagery — spanning personal photographs, fashion and film sources — Tetz transforms these referents through a richly intuitive handling of paint, allowing each composition to occupy a liminal space between representation and abstraction. Her paintings generate dream-like tableaux that explore the vulnerabilities and clichés of femininity, questioning received notions of the gaze and the pictorial conventions that surround depictions of the body. With colour and form deployed in ways that heighten both the immediacy of first glance and the deeper resonance of lingering presence, Tetz’s work invites viewers into scenes of poetic complexity that resonate with psychological and cultural depth. Born in Calgary and now based in Montreal, her work has been exhibited widely across North America and Europe, reflecting a sustained and evolving engagement with contemporary painting.
