Collection: Rowena Comrie

Educated at the University of Reading, taught by Terry Frost, John McLean and Mali Morris, Rowena Comrie has used the aesthetics of colourfield and abstract expressionism as potent means of communicating feelings and ideas. Working from her studio in the East End of Glasgow, she continues to capture fleeting visions that arrive from long developed ideas. Her method requires a spontaneous and energetic means of paint application tempered by an objective assessment of chance occurrences, known to surrealists as ‘Objective Chance’.

Rowena spent her youth in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and those seaside years left a lasting love of coastal environments, sublime horizons and infinite skies. She has now been based in Glasgow for 13 years having previously spent 20 years in Aberdeen.