Stephanie Tristam’s current work reflects a number of influences, her love of textiles and the decorative, and landscape in both the Borders and Patagonia. She has a dramatic, intuitive, luscious sense of colour which she brings to all her work. She sees her self as engaged in a process that involves time and openness to allow paintings to evolve.

“I began my career began in the sixties as a Designer. Retirement has given me the time to take up painting again and moving to a beautiful part of Scotland has given me the inspiration. The light here is great, presenting ever changing scenery, depending on the time of day, the weather or the season. I try to capture the light and shade in my work, as I feel this gives it life. I’ve always been interested in portrait painting, so painting animals seemed a natural progression given the character in their faces.”