Karin Borland is a painter (and sometimes textile artist) living in Perthshire. Her twin passions as a child were, and probably still are, wildlife and art. Karin studied Zoology at the University of Dundee (an excruciatingly difficult choice over art college) but the desire to create never went away. She did an Art Foundation and a Design Crafts Textiles HNC at North Oxfordshire College as a mature student. Karin was an art tutor with Oxfordshire County Council for 5 years. She moved back to Scotland 14 years ago and this saw a return to her first career of teaching. She teaches art at Fairview School in Perth and runs local art classes for adults.
Karin works from her gorgeous burnside, garden studio in nearby Dalguise and is inspired by her walks with her standard poodle Maeva. Daily photographs and sketches in the forest, and by the River Tay, inform her art. Karin paints atmospheric landscapes with an emphasis on light and pattern. She works in layers of paint, some translucent, some thicker and more opaque and these are often wiped back or dissolved to reveal details and patterns in the layers beneath. Using these signature techniques she creates rich surfaces which convey arresting images of the beauty in ordinary everyday observations.