Land and Bloom

Land and Bloom is a rare and unmissable reunion exhibition, bringing together identical twin sisters Nicola Coutts and Tracy Skelton as they exhibit side by side for the first time in over 30 years, since their days studying together at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art.

This compelling new body of work unfolds as a visual conversation in paint, moving between landscape and bloom, winter and summer, stillness and abundance.

Nicola Coutts’ paintings burst with the energy of spring and summer gardens. Inspired by flowers in full flourish, radiant heat, and shifting light, she works primarily in oils, enriched with printmaking processes. Layered colour, collage, and expressive mark-making combine to evoke the sensory richness of hazy summer days and the imagined perfection of paradise gardens.

In contrast, Tracy Skelton turns her gaze to the quieter, more contemplative seasons. Her mixed media works draw on time spent walking through the landscape, where autumnal tones and winter atmospheres emerge through textured surfaces, subtle colour shifts, and gestural marks that capture memory, movement, and mood.

Together, their work creates a powerful dialogue between seasons and sensibilities exploring contrast, connection, and a shared artistic lineage. Land and Bloom celebrates nature not only as subject matter, but as emotional grounding and creative structure.

Step into this immersive exhibition and experience a vivid world of colour, texture, and atmosphere where landscapes and flowers come alive in striking, unexpected harmony.

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