Isla Davie is a Scottish artist from Aberdeenshire. She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, in Art and Philosophy and was awarded the Sandra McNeilance Memorial Prize for Painting and Drawing.
Isla’s practice delicately explores the experience of being a human. Using pencil on paper as a process and language of purity and simplicity, she observes and contemplates various states of mind, body and being. She considers fundamental human states alongside personal associations and perceptions (including sleeping, dreaming, crying, meditating, swimming, thinking, loving, feeling, being).
Isla’s practice is influenced by water, and the notion of water as a physical and metaphorical connector to human and non-human, and a reflection of the nature of being. A slow process of focused observation, documentation, and reflection gently lies beneath the surface of the physical artworks, amongst considerations of various Western and Eastern philosophies. Her drawings act as contemplations, simultaneously asking and answering questions of self, home, minds, bodies, and being.
