Raine Clarke lives in West Calder with her family. She studied at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen and went on to train as a nurse. Recently she has exhibited on the Isle of Gigha and also in West Lothian, Caithness, Edinburgh Botanical Gardens and Austria. Her illustrative work has been commissioned by 'Island' literary magazine and VisitScotland. Raine also works as a performer with Fischy music.

This exhibition has been inspired by the wide, open landscapes on the west coast of Scotland and all the detailed forms of nature found within those places. She writes: “I am interested in the idea of the shore as a permeable, fluctuating boundary and the life that moves into that space of sand and sea as tides ebb and flow. Another theme of this work is around the sense of home and having a safe place - solid ground in a changing, shifting environment.”