Soft Pastels
working with raw pigment with my bare hands adds an intimacy between myself and the artwork, that no other medium allows. every finished work remains mutable. this fragility gives them a living quality making them all the more precious.
“i learnt a lot about love in the mountains, about my own capacity for it. on my adventures, what i’m chasing isn’t the summit, nor the thrill of conquest. i find myself wanting to know the mountain, deeply, in all its intensity. intensity has a way of holding up a mirror in a way that nothing else does. it’s a riveting discovery to find my own depth mirrored from something of such untamed and majestic beauty. and the only way to really love it, is to know it.”
Immanence
portfolio
these works trace my earliest explorations of soft pastels, documenting my progress in mastering a medium that feels endlessly alive. many pieces return to the same scenes again and again, reflecting my attempt to capture the fleeting nature of highland winters with their ever shifting light and the golden glow of their dusks and dawn that only last minutes. for the most part, the scottish highlands remain my constant muse; their skies inspiring me to create lived-in dynamic atmospheres that capture the impermanence so characteristic of the highlands.
this portfolio includes pieces from my first and ongoing series “immanence”, featuring winter scenes from the cairngorms national park.
artist:
yashna rambeerich
year
2024 – 2025
