Archives: Artists

Born in Ayrshire, Claire grew up on the Moray coast, before graduating with an MA in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art with distinction in painting in 1997. She has shown her paintings professionally throughout the UK since 2008 and works from her home studio in the Scottish Borders. […]

Claire was born in Dundee, working from her home studio in Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders. Exploring mixed media and collage, she studied at Edinburgh University and now exhibits widely in public and private galleries at home and abroad. She hopes to create an atmosphere that resonates through the use of colour and symbol, aiming […]

Claire’s home and studio overlook Loch Lomond, where she has happily lived since 1989 with her family and dogs. While working in the events industry and later running her own business, her first and overriding love was always colour and paint – colour is at the heart of everything. This led her to study locally […]

Born and educated in Glasgow, Connie Simmers took advantage of the non-diploma classes at the Glasgow School of Art and attended these over a three year period from 1981 to 1983. She started exhibiting in mixed exhibitions in 1984 before having her own solo show in 1989 and in subsequent years has exhibited regularly in […]

Damian Henry is an artist printmaker known for his distinctive figurative images of young couples as they go about their everyday life. Graphic works range from small monochrome etchings to large vibrant colourful monotypes. Etchings employ gentle, romantic, detailed imagery – flowers, girls, musicians.

Darren Rees has been painting wildlife for nearly 40 years and is one of the UK’s most highly respected nature artists. His work has attracted many awards and honours most recently Wildlife Artist of the Year from the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation and BBC Wildlife Magazine. Darren also won the Artist in Residency in Antarctica post organised […]

Dawn Spence is a Glasgow-based artist with a deep passion for abstract art. After earning an honours degree in Contemporary & Fine Art, she went on to study education and spent four years teaching Art, Design, and Photography in secondary schools. In August 2024, she answered the undeniable call to dive fully into her art […]

Deborah Phillips was born in Dundee, the daughter of well known Scottish artist, Douglas Phillips. It soon became apparent that she would follow in her father’s footsteps. She first exhibited work at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art at the age of 14. She attended Duncan of Jordanstone College […]

I am a self taught artist based in Fife and have been painting for many years. I was brought up in a creative household so it was enviable that art was going to be a big part of my life. Having spent the fifteen years in the gallery and workshop side of the business I […]

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, she draws […]