GEORGINA COBURN ART
I enjoy working in layers of different media including ink, watercolour, acrylics and collage. What collage does incredibly well as an artform, especially in uncertain times, is provide an unbridled form of expression and much needed protest. I love the playfulness and intuitive free association of making collages. Using discarded materials, cutting and tearing away assumptions, including your own, is an essential part of the process.
Mixed Media and Collage
'I made the diptych Highland Clearance (40cm x 100cm) to try to process what I see happening all around me and to acknowledge the trauma felt by many people in rural Scotland today. We are currently living in the shadow of a wave. Communities from Shetland to the Borders are experiencing a deluge of planning applications for substations, pylons, battery storage facilities and windfarms, powered by greed. At times, this relentless onslaught by multinational energy companies is overwhelming. The cumulative impact of their unsustainable advance across our landscape is the source of profound distress, grief and anger.
Unlike Hokusai's "Great Wave Off Kanagawa" (1831) which is an expression of reverence for nature, the unnatural wave I have depicted using small pieces of collaged paper and mixed media is man-made and reflects the wider global climate crisis. It is an attempt to create some order out of chaos and uncertainty, and to raise awareness about what is happening in the Highlands and in the Scottish countryside.'
Georgina Coburn
Highland Clearance was selected for the Scottish Landscape Awards exhibition 2025 at Kirkcudbright Galleries 5 July - 28 September.
Details from Highland Clearance by Georgina Coburn (collage and mixed media 40cm x 100cm)
Ariadne (2024, collage and mixed media on board 10' x 12')
The Owl Who Has Lost His Pussycat (2022, collage and mixed media on paper 30cm x 48cm)
A Step in Time (2026, collage and mixed media on board 10' x 12')
Psyche (2024, collage and mixed media on board 10' x 12')
Heron and Dragonfly (2024 Stone Lithograph collage, ink and watercolour on paper)
The Harbour (2020, collage and ink on paper, 23cm x 16cm)
The Magician (2021, collage and ink, 21cm x 16cm)