Victoria Ross, Martin in School Uniform, 2025
Victoria Ross is a self-taught visual artist born in Glasgow, now based in Linlithgow, who makes pared-back, expressive paintings and drawings. She paints people as she experiences them—fragile, full of gaps, with broken edges. Working from old family photographs and using a muted palette of watercolours and oils, Ross creates delicate, ethereal portraits by constantly setting herself creative problems that no one else has asked her to solve.
Ross’s work is an ongoing conversation between inner yearning and the world’s refusal to stop turning. It’s an embodied attempt to accept time’s passing, to gently honour those who’ve gone before, and to cherish her own small life. A quiet invitation to think less and feel more. Recent exhibitions include group exhibitions Neuk Perspectives, Patriothall Gallery (Edinburgh, 2024), Shared Perspectives, EH49 Hub (Linlithgow, 2024), The Time of Her Life, House of Smalls Gallery (Edinburgh, 2024) and solo exhibition Capturing Transcience, Glisk Gallery (Burntisland, 2023).
