Connie Liebschner
Glasgow-based landscape artist, explorer and swimmer
About
Connie Liebschner is a visual artist based in Glasgow. Her practice explores the Scottish landscape through her deep connection to outdoor swimming and exploring, using painting as a way to translate embodied, immersive experiences of place.
Liebschner works predominantly in painting and is interested in how two-dimensional images can evoke immersive spaces. She explores this through the use of multiple layers, shifting viewpoints, and varying opacities, allowing digital and physical ways of seeing to overlap.
She studied BA Fine Art at Loughborough University, where she developed an interest in how digital media can be translated into and compared with handmade processes. Following her degree, Liebschner worked as a print tutor at Leicester Print Workshop, where she enjoyed experimenting with a wide range of techniques. She later moved to Scotland to complete a Masters in Print Media at Glasgow School of Art, combining her printmaking knowledge with more traditional painterly approaches.
Liebschner is a founding member of the G20 Artist Collective. Her work is held in private collections across the UK and Europe.
Artist Statement
I am drawn to the edge of the land through my love of swimming. Landscape painting, for me, is about capturing ever-changing spaces. Water further alters this view, flipping and abstracting the known into the unknown while holding a restorative power. I enjoy revisiting places throughout the year, observing seasonal shifts and responding to the land as a living, evolving entity. Flora, fauna, weather, and light all shape our perception of a place, and my response is often colour-driven.
My work is about more than observing the landscape—it is about fully immersing myself in it. The discomfort of cold water, or the breathlessness of running and hill walking, heightens my awareness and endorphins, allowing me to notice fleeting sparks of surrealism within these somewhat romanticised views. I prefer the autumn and winter, when the landscape feels most alone, and often seek hidden paths, moving through the terrain to gain new perspectives and deepen my connection to place. Swimming, walking, and running create an invigorating space between calm and physical intensity, where magic and discomfort coexist.
While out in the wilderness, I document these experiences through drawings, watercolour sketches, and photography, which I later develop in my home studio. Working on rigid wooden panels, I use experimental, solvent-free techniques—layering matt pigments, inks, and gesso to build depth and richness. During lockdowns and while caring for young children, I developed this approach by chance, but it has now become my preferred method of making. This exploratory painting practice allows me to translate fleeting experiences of the landscape into layered, original artworks.
Education
2017 - 2018
MLitt Fine Art (Print Media), Glasgow School of Art (Distinction)
2013 - 2016
BA Hons Fine Art, Loughborough University (First Class Hons)
Awards and Residencies
2018
Dumfries House Residency (In association with Royal Drawing School), Cumnock
2016
P2P Artist Prize, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester
2016
EM16 Residency, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2016
The Enterprise Office Award for Enterprise and Innovation, First Prize, Loughborough University
2016
Edward Sharp Prize, Loughborough University
2016
Leicester Printmakers Award, Leicester Print Workshop
Press
2023 BBC Radio Scotland, G20 Artist collective interview
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001slq6
2023 Artmaguk Cover Jan 23
2022 Bird Nest Artist Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZbyjKPIc1k
2022 Glasgow Live Interview
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-lives-connie-29-west-24876585
2022 ArtMag G20
https://artmag.co.uk/post-lockdown-post-code-at-the-alchemy-experiment-glasgow/
2022 The Kelvingrove Review
https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/thekelvingrovereview/issue19placeandspace/
2016 Renee Pfister
https://www.reneepfister-consultancy.com/news/artist-in-focus---connie-liebschner---september-2016
Selected Exhibitions
2026
Shortlist, RA summer Exhibition, London
Bathing Places — 37 Looe Street Gallery, Plymouth
Tenement Streets, G20 Artist Collective, Glasgow
Colours of Our Country, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh
the Edge of the Known, Glasgow Gallery, Glasgow
Spring Exhibition, The Velvet Easel, Portobello
Water, the Bingham Trust Gallery, Cirencester
2025
Tenement Streets, G20 Artist Collective, Glasgow
Spring Exhibition, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh
Together in Art, Kimpton Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Spring Exhibition, The Velvet Easel, Portobello
Redefining Landscape, The Glasgow Gallery, Glasgow
A Scottish Symphony, Crane Court Gallery, London
2024
Winter Show, Detail Framing Gallery, Edinburgh
Winter Small Works, Spring, Cheltenham
Beyond This Horizon, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh
A Glasgow Collective, The Glasgow Gallery, Glasgow
Canal Conversation by G20 Artist Collective, Trongate 103, Glasgow
Connie Liebschner Solo, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow
Nature's Palette, Tatha, Newport-on-Tay
Inception IV, Dalkeith Palace, Dalkeith
Curtains, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow
Permanent Collection, The Glasgow Gallery, Glasgow
Inception IV, Dalkeith Palace, Dalkeith
2023
SSA 125th Exhibition, Maclurin Gallery, Ayr
Winter Small Works, Spring, Cheltenham
The Colour & The Shape, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh
10th Anniversary Exhibition, The Velvet Easel, Portobello
A Stone, A Spark, A Shard of Glass, Maryhill Museum, Glasgow
Tektos, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow
Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow
Inception III, Dalkeith Palace, Dalkeith
2022
Featured Artist at Birds Nest Gallery, Edinburgh
Winter, Spring, Cheltenham
Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh
Summer & Winter Exhibitions at Velvet Easel, Portobello
Strata/ Thought Lines, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow
Inception, Dalkeith Palace, Dalkeith
Small Works, Spring, Cheltenham
2019
Fling: Relay 2, Tramway, Glasgow
2018
Post Graduate Degree Show, Tontine, Glasgow
Jetty. Surgery (JD Kelly), Glasgow
2017
BAT. McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
RE: Imagined, Store Street Gallery, London
2
Essence and Location, ArtCore, Derby
2016
Untitled, 3 The Spot, Derby
Pulse. Surface Gallery, Nottingham
P2P, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester
Free Range. Truman Brewery, London
Mass, Loughborough University, Loughborough