I have quite a lot of news to share regarding up coming events, please feel free to make notes in your diary and come along to any events or exhibitions that you can. I’ll be delighted to see you at any of the following events!
Floating free, 38 x 56 cm.
Save the date! Intertidal Traces opening on Wednesday 6th of November 6-8pm
An Exhibition of recent screen prints, paper hangings and paintings
Scottish Arts Club
24 Rutland Square
Edinburgh EH1 2BW
I will be giving a short Illustrated talk on Screen Printing on Wednesday 27th November from 6 – 7pm. This will be a little about the history of screen printing and about the process of how I make my prints.
The talk and exhibition are in the Club Room, 1st floor. Exhibition runs until 30th November.
NB The Arts Club is open to the public Tuesday – Friday 11.00am – 5pm & Saturday 10.30am – 12.00 and 3 – 5pm
www.scottishartsclub.com
I have been working hard all this year because I was invited by the Scottish Arts Club to create a show for their Club Room walls. The Club has its home in a beautiful large townhouse in an elegant West End Georgian square, and the present Club Room was the original Drawing Room with floor to ceiling windows. The walls seem huge and I wondered how I would make work large enough to fill them!
In the end I just started making screenprints as experiments, which seemed to increase in number until I realised that my experiments WERE the work and that the work was small. It was a leap of faith to accept that small work could fill large walls.
The title of the show – Intertidal Traces – reveals the subject matter and the fascination I have for what lies at that ever changing point where sea meets sand. Living by the Firth of Forth as I do, every day the shore presents new stories, new patterns in the sand and water, and thoughts of water quality, climate change and restoration work being done for seagrass and oysters.
These are intimate pieces that on close inspection allow the viewer to feel drawn into the tide line and to share my concern for its future well being.
Compass Jellyfish 24 x 36cm
The Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright – Winter Printmaking Exhibition https://www.whitehousegallery.co.uk/forthcoming-winter-exhibition/
Opening on Saturday 2nd of November from 11am – 5pm, I’m delighted to be participating in this lively group show and will be at the opening event showing screenprints of the intertidal zone.
The exhibition runs till 4th January 2025.
The art town of Kirkcudbright is well worth a visit and the Whitehouse Gallery gives a warm and colourful welcome to visitors.
The Whitehouse Gallery
47 St Mary Street
Kirkcudbright
Dumfries and Galloway DG6 4DU
Hope for the Firth of Forth 54 x 68cm
Edinburgh Printmakers’ Members’ Show: Dòchas (Hope)
Evening Opening Event Thursday 28th November 6 -9pm, exhibition runs until 9th March 2025
Edinburgh Printmakers
Castle Mills
1 Dundee Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9FP
https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/visit/
Seaweed Cyanotype with screenprint, 29 x 41cm
Coburg House Winter Open Studios – our twice yearly opening of circa 60 studios
Evening Opening Event Friday 29th November 6-9pm, always a fun time with live music, and bar sponsored by Leith Spirits and Moonwake Beer.
Continues through the weekend Saturday 30th November – Sunday 1st December. 10am – 5pm
During the day we have a pop up café from Leith favourite Domenico’s and live music on Sunday afternoon. It’s a great place to get your Christmas shopping started!
Coburg House Art Studios and Gallery
15 Coburg Street
Leith
Edinburgh EH6 6ET
https://www.coburghouse.co.uk/whats-on
