Michael Craik, born 1972

Micheal Craik is a Scottish artist born in 1972 in Edinburgh. He received a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, Winchester, from 1992 to 1996. Between 1999 and 2000, he earned an MA in European Fine Art from the Winchester School of Art in Barcelona. Craik's work has been widely exhibited internationally and is represented by galleries in Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States. Michael Craik's practise investigates the interaction of colour and repetition as a means of creating quiet, contemplative work concerned with colour, material quality, and process. Craik creates paintings by applying and removing paint repeatedly. This reduction process appears throughout his work, alluding to the forces of erosion that shape our landscape. He creates contemplative, minimal paintings by allowing the elemental qualities of the paint to determine the appearance of each work. His work can be found in private and public collections including Bank of Montreal, Collins Gallery/Strathclyde University, The Fleming Collection, Mastercard, Royal Bank of Scotland, McGraw-Hill Companies, and John Lewis Partnership.