Cain’s Riverside Museum, Interior II was part of a body of work that explored the regeneration of the Clyde landscape, including the New Riverside Museum, designed by Zaha Hadid. This piece show’s the interior of the museum still during its construction phase, with all the industrial indoor scaffolding. Her focus on the lines going in every direction within the building's “negative” space brings the colours to the forefront.

Patricia Cain, born 1963

Born in the Lake District and training initially as a lawyer, Patricia Cain later completed a PhD in her practice of drawing at the Glasgow School of Art; her research explored the relationship between thinking and drawing. Cain’s work balances abstraction with figuration, focussing just as much on the subject as the negative space that is present. Her Riverside Museum, Interior II was part of a body of work that explored the regeneration of the Clyde landscape, including the New Riverside Museum, designed by Zaha Hadid, which one her the Aspect Prize in 2010. She has described her love of draughtsmanship as being partly inspired by Sir Muirhead Bone, seen in the attention she gives to both composition and detail.