


Erin Thomson
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Erin Thomson is a Dundee-born painter based in Edinburgh. She studied Painting at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating in 2021. She was awarded the VAS Graduate Showcase Award, the SSA New Graduate Award and was selected for the RSA New Contemporaries 2023 and the RSA John Kinross Scholarship.
Literature
The stars in the sky crash together to create a full moon.
As you gaze from the sky down you see the peak of a mountain,
at its base, a bed of sand on which you are standing and an expanse of water in which you are watching.
In the sand you find a pearl, the reflection reminds you of a rainbow,
the shape is that of an egg, an egg which will be life, breathe air.
You start to move, walking towards a river.
Along the banks you see life, a snail, a frog, a fish.
At the end of the river you see a waterfall.
But it is cold and dark now.
The waterfall has frozen over, icicles as sharp as a thorn of a rose.
Sometimes the ice shelves collapse, creating icebergs, drifting out to sea.
You settle for the night, the wind blowing fallen leaves into the fire you have just created.