New Series in the making...
I spend a lot of my time when the outside the studio wandering the streets of Edinburgh or the vast landscapes of Scotland. A chunk of the time im spending hours driving around Scotland either delivering paintings or visiting family/friends or simply for an adventure. I use these trips using as an excuse to explore the country of my birth. From beautiful, often-deserted hills and glens of the Highlands, from the Trossachs to the Cairngorms, from Old Town to the rolling Pentland Hills. I take every opportunity to roam these dramatic, mystical and often desolate places, with my dog, Rollo and most of the time fiancé (aka. my art assistant), bouncing and roaming along beside me. This page is used as an occasionally art journal. To learn more about upcoming 2026/2027 exhibitions head to my News Page.
Artist's statement:
I wander without any particular aim, absorbing the everchanging seasonal colours and light. I consider how the light touches the land. When I return to my studio in Edinburgh, I try to capture it. I look at the pictures I've taken on my phone, but mostly I work from the pictures in my mind, from imperfect, emotional memory.
Art Journal: SOLO SHOW: 'One to Watch'
Marylebone, London
27th Jan '26
This new body of work reflects a life lived between places. From a childhood shaped by open countryside, through the intensity and movement of Dhaka, the vast, elemental landscapes of Australia, and now the architectural rhythms of Edinburgh, my experience of place has never been singular. These environments overlap within me, forming an inner geography that continues to surface through paint. It is not tied to one country or time, but represents the idea of home as something carried rather than fixed - a presence that endures across movement, distance, and change. Ultimately, this series invites the viewer into an interior landscape, a space where memory, place, and emotion merge. It is an exploration of what it means to belong everywhere and nowhere at once, and of the quiet beauty found in the spaces in between. Currently exhibiting at Thompson’s Galleries in London Solo Exhibition: ‘One to watch’ https://www.thompsonsgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/148-erraid-gaskell-one-to-watch/
Art Journal: 'Adventures outside the Studio' 22nd Nov '25
Over the last few months of 2025 my fiancé and I had many mother-nature adventures over at Loch Lomond and The Cairngorms, climbing various munros. The weather was mostly good and the light glorious. But being scotland, always prepare for any weather changes. These hikes inspired me to work on a new style and a new series of paintings for this Spring season and for upcoming Summer exhibitions 2026. I wanted to capture the feeling of that moment when you reach the top of a Munro and you turn around to look back at the landscape you've just climbed through - that sudden moment of perspective when the land drops away from you and shapes itself into a picture.
