Architects & Artisans has interviewed Scottish architect and artist Karlyn Sutherland about her work and solo exhibition at Heller Gallery in New York.

“Architect and artist Karlyn Sutherland discovered the power and magic of the hand sketch at an early age.

In high school I always enjoyed drawing – hand drawings to represent spaces.,” the Scottish architect with a masters and PhD from the University of Edinburgh says. “And I had an understanding of optical illusions.’

Now she pairs drawing and optical illusions for a dialog that pulls in different directions. ‘I’ll do a sketch with a foreground, middle ground, and background – and then interpret that in glass,’ she says.

She focuses on a longstanding interest in the connection between memory and place, with a response to the atmosphere created by the play of light and shadow within architectural forms”. Read more.