About

Sharon MacPherson is a Scottish artist based in the Outer Hebrides, whose work is deeply rooted in the elemental landscape of the islands. She grew up on the Isle of Berneray, the place from which her maternal family originate and to which she has returned to live in recent years. This enduring connection to place forms a central thread throughout her practice, shaping both her relationship with the landscape and her response to it.

Sharon’s work primarily draws on the visual language of shorelines, Machair and open moorland, translated through an intuitive and abstract approach to colour, surface and form.

Her paintings are informed by close studies of the natural environment, emerging through an interplay of observation, memory and imagination. Layers of paint, texture and gestural marks evoke the weathered landscape and the shifting seasons, with colour and surface becoming a means of expressing the atmosphere and emotional resonance of place.

Wildlife also finds its way into Sharon’s paintings, reflecting her fascination with the presence and individuality of the natural world. These works allow the subject to become part of a broader exploration of movement, colour and memory, often balancing recognisable forms with more intuitive and expressive brushwork.

Sharon’s work reflects a deep and intuitive relationship with the Hebridean landscape. Through the physical process of painting, she explores the ways in which a place can become embedded in memory and identity, creating works that evoke not simply how a landscape looks, but how it feels to experience it, remember it and belong to it.