KAYDIE

Abstract artist Kaydie finds inspiration in the layers of history that build up into the colours, textures and forms that make up the everyday surfaces of the city. Now based in Edinburgh, she has lived in urban areas all her life and loves finding the unseen beauty in hidden, inner-city spaces.

Much of her work is characterized by a recreation of the spaces she observes in everyday life, particularly the way nature starts to break down or interrupt the structure of urban design. 

"I love seeing the way a wall is resurfaced by running water, or a linear pavement is turned into organic, cracked forms by roots fighting through underneath. It feels like a wonderful metaphor, finding beauty in what is, essentially, decay and destruction... it's life and death existing in the same space."

From cherry tree blossoms and overgrown ivy, to crumbled bricks and rusted scaffolding, all parts of city life are incorporated into richly coloured, evolutionary abstractions.