About the Artist

Biography

Sandra Vick is an artist whose paintings are rooted in memories of the Scottish landscape. She is drawn to hills on the horizon and to the geological and human shaping of the land. Working from sketches made outdoors, she explores these ideas through layers of oil paint, mark making and texture, creating paintings that evoke not only a particular landscape, but the feeling of being outside and there in the landscape.

Education

2005-08       MFA Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.

2001-05       BA (Hons) Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.

2000-01       Foundation in Art and Design awarded with Distinction, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh

1994-05       Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics, University of Tromsø, Norway

1990-92       MPhil Health Economics, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales

1987-92       BA(Hons) Banking, Insurance & Finance, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales

Select recent exhibitions

June 2026   Upright Gallery, Edinburgh

Mar 2026     Whitehouse Gallery. Kirkcudbright

Feb 2026     Moy Mackay Gallery, Peebles

Jan 2026      Common Ground; The Living Landscape, Visual Arts Scotland, Kirkcudbright Galleries.

2025                Featured Artist, Torrance Art Gallery, Edinburgh

2025                Pentlands Open Studios, Edinburgh

2025                ‘High Five’ Smithy Gallery, Blanefield

Awards and prizes

2026     Elected as professional member of Visual Arts Scotland

2006     Daler Rowney Prize, Open Drawing & Painting Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art

2005     Andrew Grant Bequest Prize, Edinburgh College of Art

2002     Andrew Grant Bequest Award Travel Scholarship, Edinburgh College of Art

2001     Andrew Grant Bequest Prize, Open Drawing & Painting Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art

1998     Cairncross Prize in Economics