Patricia Paolozzi Cain
Patricia Paolozzi Cain (b. 1963) is a multi-award-winning artist living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She has a PhD in the Practice of Drawing from Glasgow School of Art. She won both the Threadneedle and Aspect Prizes in 2010, and has since received noteworthy awards from the Royal Watercolour Society, the Pastel Society, the Royal Scottish Academy and Arte Laguna in Venice.
With nature as Paolozzi Cain's starting point, she uses intuitive processes of drawing and painting to help visualise the interdependence that exists between the external world and the internal mind. She says, "I try to follow myself when making art. Not maintaining a fixed state, I try to flow with the changing conditions and environments, always moving and adapting as I go. There are always opportunities for re-aligning one’s own position - a reminder of the ‘uncarved block’.
"When I look at what I’ve made, I’m interested in knowing more generally whether there is some sort of spiritual aesthetic made visible in the spatial contents of my work."
