Award-winning Scottish artist Beth Robertson Fiddes opened ‘Echoes of the North' at Strathearn Gallery, which is available to view until October 13 Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters Award-winning Scottish artist Beth Robertson Fiddes opened a new exhibition at Crieff ’s Strathearn Gallery at the weekend. ‘Echoes of the North’ was unveiled at the West High Street arts hub on Saturday, September 14, and will be available to view until October 13. Beth has built a global following through her ability to paint the crashing waves and the much-loved rock pools of the Scottish Highlands.
In the world of noted Scottish contemporary landscape artists over the past years, few who have seen Beth’s would argue against her deserving a place up there among the best. Her style is at times a bridge between realism and abstract and her evocative and atmospheric paintings capture the wild beauty of the Scottish wilderness with a skill and talent few others can match. But it is Beth’s exceptional talent for painting water, in particular, that has garnered most attention and critical acclaim.
Notoriously difficult to paint, many artists take different approaches in terms of how to capture water but Beth has spent nearly 30 years honing her craft in a quest to translate movement, transparency and ref.