January 12 2010

An artist who seeks inspiration from Glaswegian building sites has won the Aspect prize for new painting after a series of studies depicting the interiors of unfinished buildings along the Clyde were praised by judges as “assured and remarkable pieces of work”.

Patricia Cain, a former lawyer, was drawn to Zaha Hadid’s Transport Museum after finding visual appeal in the complexity, structure and organisation of scaffolding and other detritus of construction.

Cain admits: “When a building is finished I lose interest”.

The jump from running a solicitors office to pursuing a love of art has proved financially challenging but creatively liberating for Cain who last year was awarded a doctorate from Glasgow School of Art.

The Aspect Prize is given exclusively to Scots or artists established in Scotland and the winners will go on display at the Fleming Collection in central London.

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