Plum Cloutman was the recipient of the 2018 Lyon & Turnbull Graduate Showcase Award. As part of the award, Plum spent one week at Sweeney’s Bothy. The award culminated with a exhibition of Plum’s work at Lyon & Turnbull’s Edinburgh saleroom from 11-14 August 2019.
Plum Cloutman is a painter and printmaker. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2018 with a BA (Hons) in Painting and is now based between London and Norfolk.
Taking the still, the ornamental and the static as raw artistic material, she uses her brush, pencil and pastel – in small, deft concentric motions – to animate her subjects. Sharp and deliberate lines differentiate the pools of soft colour characteristics of the scenes she paints: a bricolage of textures, tones and moods that recall the hazy and unreliable dreamscapes of sleep. These images are often fractured between panels, or affixed to the more corporeal textures of steel or metal.
You can read more about Plum’s residency experience here.
Header image: courtesy of the artist.
