Dominique Cameron: Up With The Larks
Come take a tour of ‘Scotland’s quiet places' in new exhibition by Dominique Cameron

Fife-based artist Dominique Cameron’s new exhibition, Up With The Larks, is billed as a celebration of ‘Scotland’s quiet places’. It takes the viewer on a cross-country tour of coastlines, waterways and hinterlands, from Peterhead Harbour in the east to Ardnamurchan Lighthouse in the west. In between, Cameron offers up scenes of fishing ports, market towns and desolate train stations, bringing varying degrees of abstract verve to her canvases.
‘Peterhead Harbour’ is a scratchy crayon sketch on Yupo paper, an atmospheric, bucolic scene that brings to mind some of Sylvia Wishart’s more gesturally expressive Orkney drawings. A similar tone is rendered in pictures of Sanna, a hamlet on the far-west tip of Ardnamurchan, and, in charcoal, the imposing Lairig Gartain pass in Glencoe.

But it’s in the larger, colourful abstract canvases that we find the real riches. ‘Orkney’ is a delectable square of intersecting colour planes, scrubbed greens, blues and ochres. ‘Corrour Station’, depicting the famously isolated train stop in the central Highlands where a scene from Trainspotting was filmed, is a sea of bright orange with childlike yet precise little details picked out. There is an interesting push and pull between figuration and abstraction in these works which shows an artist on an imaginative as well as geographical journey.
Fidra Fine Art, Gullane, until Sunday 18 June.