Orla Stevens creates paintings that respond to multi-sensory experience of place. Translating emotional and physical perceptions of Scottish landscape and Soundscape into colours, textures and marks. These works document the experience and connection to her native wild landscape: celebrating and recording the interconnected relationship of mind, body and environment. Through painting, print and stitch, Orla carries these influences through traditional craft processes into a contemporary context. 

Orla Stevens is a painter working across paper, canvas and textiles. Graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2018 with first-class honours, Orla has been developing her practice, merging her screen print training with painting processes. Orla works between Callander and Glasgow, where she is a part-time print technician for Print Clan, an open-access studio.