Archives: Artists
Erraid Gaskell
Erraid is a modern abstract expressionist artist. Her vivid landscapes do not copy Nature. Rather, they explore intense experience and dreaming through memory and imagination, creating form and a sense of place. Her paintings are at the intersection of landscape and dreamscape, inscape and escape. Erraid uses a wide range of materials such as acrylic, pastel, collage and oil. From her home in Perthshire, […]
Read moreFiona Clasen
A central strand to my work is the still life. I am drawn to objects which have belonged to people I have known: beautiful, fragile ephemera, much valued by their owners, though perhaps too precious to have been used often, and now left behind. When placed in an interior space, in muted daylight, the atmosphere created is intriguing. […]
Read moreFiona Macrae
Fiona grew up in Argyll , studied painting at Glasgow School of Art graduating in 2000 and has since had a full time career in painting. She has exhibited nationally and internationally mainly in group shows , with three solo shows to date, Zurich, an Tobar, Mull, and Galanthus gallery. Her paintings are tabletop still […]
Read moreGail Pope
Gail’s passion for art started very early in life – a pencil, crayon or paintbrush was never far from her hand! She won various art competitions at school, but never thought much about it. Realisation as to any ‘calling’ only began when, in her first year at High School (age13), the head of the Art […]
Read moreGarry Harper
The human figure has always been Garry’s main source of inspiration. He says his creative mind is always at play through the course of a day, taking in ideas for textures, marks and tones to play with and marry them with the human form. Glimpses of people from a film might inspire, or the back […]
Read moreGeorgina McMaster
Georgina graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002, gaining a BA Honours in Visual Communication and specializing in Drawing and Painting. She was awarded the First Time Exhibitor prize in 2007 at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the David Cargill Award in 2008 by the prestigious Royal Glasgow Institute […]
Read moreGill Knight
Gill grew up in various Scottish country locations throughout East, West and Central Scotland. Walking and being in nature everyday creates her desire to transfer memories and experiences into something tangible. Her preferred medium is oils often with a limited pallet. When reducing the colours it can often result in her work coming across as […]
Read moreGill Wilson
Gill was born and brought up in Perthshire. She graduated from Winchester School of Art with BA in Fine Art ( 1st class) in 1988, she loved her time there where as part of the course she was able to travel to Paris, Barcelona, Moscow and St. Petersburg. As an Erasmus guinea- pig she spent […]
Read moreGillian Westland
I am an Artist working outside Edinburgh at the foot of the Pentland Hills. I studied Fine Art at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Specialising in Sculpture and Conceptual art, graduating in 1999 with a Ba(Hons) degree in Fine Art. My work was heavily focused on the marks we leave in time and centred […]
Read moreGordon Wilson
Gordon Wilson is one of Scotland’s most exciting contemporary artists. He was born in 1968 and grew up in Glasgow where he is now based. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and has worked in the art industry for many years as a designer, picture framer and artist. Gordon’s subject matter ranges from quirky […]
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