Featured Artist: Rebecca Fielding

Periphery is a new body of works by artist-printmaker Rebecca Fielding.

This series of etchings present a vignette of a single day: the summer solstice. Representing the hours of daylight of the longest day of the year, each print in the series reflects a fleeting moment in time. To many, the Solstice is a day with deep spiritual significance, and a time at which the veil between worlds is blurred. A time of transition and transformation, the artist has attempted to capture the surreal quality of this long summer day. The images can be followed through their changing light, and titles that can be read as a poem:

The day stretches awake

Reaching hands,

Calling into Spheres

Rolling a breeze over green shadows

And Fuschia beds.

Walking through

Time,

And in it.

Looming giants look over

A shrouded hoard. 

Rolling clouds

Release

A scattered prism.

Leading to something ancient.

Aubade to Serenade.

Things are caught in wisps of light,

And the day burns away.

Each print is created in colour, most being multi-plate etchings. This technique allows for greater depth of colour and shade, as colours are layered over each other and contrasted with one-another.  Combining these techniques with chine-collé and a la poupee inking, no two are the same.

Rebecca Fielding, (b. 1997) is a printmaker based in Glasgow. She studied Art History, Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of East Anglia, before moving to Scotland in 2019. Having completed a course in etching at Glasgow Print Studio, she has developed an artistic practice which focuses on printmaking. She has exhibited work at Glasgow Print Studio, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2025) and Seed, Frome (2025). Fielding seeks inspiration in the rich history of making that traces back through human history. She creates visual responses to images she observes in her everyday life, including dreams, combining this with references to art history. These images often take on a surreal quality, referring to the disquieting strangeness of much of the human experience.