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Journey in colour

A Journey with Colour

Spring 2023 Exhibition: 11th March  - 24th April 

Our spring exhibition will feature the vibrant work of a range of Scottish artists , each showcasing their unique art pieces with their own distinct style and look. Meet our featured artist, Fiona Haldane, on opening day and get to know our artists and their work. Join us on a journey with colour this spring and explore the many shades and hues on display.

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Paintings may be reserved for pre-sale. Please contact the gallery for details.

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Fiona Haldane

Fiona Haldane was born in Dundee, and attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art between 1975-79. She first started to exhibit in 1996, and is now recognised as the leading pastel landscape artist in Scotland. Fiona has become widely renowned for her characteristic and richly toned portrayals of the dramatic mountain landscapes of the highlands, and evocative studies of the ever changing skies and shorelines around her native Broughty Ferry and the Tay Estuary. She exploits the depth of colour and the versatility of pastels, enabling her to recreate the stunning beauty and mystical feel of the Scottish countryside and coast. Her work is instantly recognisable and highly collected. She has exhibited with several prominent galleries and her work is now enthusiastically collected throughout Scotland, and can also be found in private collections throughout the UK and overseas.

Jean Feeney

Although living in the heart of highland Perthshire, Jean Feeney admits that some of her greatest artistic inspiration comes from a very different part of the Scottish landscape. From her first visit to Ardnamurchan and the West Coast in 1990 Jean fell in love with the landscape, light and colour there, and these have been at the center of her creative output ever since. Born in York, Jean has Scottish roots through her father’s family and came back to live north of the border over 15 years ago. When an earlier back injury deteriorated, oddly enough this gave Jean the impetus to rekindle her old love! An intensive fine art training followed and simultaneously she began to develop her own style. Her subjects focus on the raw beauty of some of the remotest areas in Scotland and beyond, and she is becoming known in the art world for her energetic and sculptural use of paint. It has often been remarked that her work displays a keen eye for detail and a sheer joy of application. She has worked in a variety of media and her trademark is strong and bold colour combined with energy, light and atmosphere. Her main influences are the Scottish colourists and some of the German expressionists and, of course, Van Gogh for his love of yellow and use of thickly applied and textured paint. Her work is becoming increasingly in demand and is represented in many private and corporate collections throughout the world. As a result of a growing market she produced her first two limited edition prints in 1993, and many more have followed. These sell widely throughout the U.K. She exhibits extensively throughout the UK and has had several solo exhibitions in Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

George Gilbert

George was born and educated in Glasgow. Aged 17, he entered Glasgow School of Art to study Drawing & Painting, mentored by William Armour and David Donaldson (1957 – 1961). This was followed by a year of post-graduate study from 1961 – 1962. His Post-diploma exhibition was Highly Commended by the external assessor after which he began to serve a long apprenticeship which continues today The next 25 years were spent teaching art in schools throughout Scotland while he painted in his spare time. In 1989 George resigned from teaching to paint on a full time basis. He has exhibited widely throughout the UK in many solo shows and mixed shows, as well as national exhibitions (RSA, RGI, RWS etc.). George was elected to Membership of the RSW in 1973 and has been privileged to receive three major awards from the Society. Other awards have been received from the RGI and the PAI. George’s work is based on his environment – his studio, home and garden, the local landscape. Basically his interest lies in the way light animates the objects in his studio, the buildings and harbours in the East Neuk of Fife. The elements and patina of age lend a character and dignity which challenges the skill of the painter. He has always been interested in painting techniques; his preferred media are acrylic, watercolour and pen & ink wash. “Generally the subject (or the object) dictates the medium. Acrylic is very flexible and can be built up in layers from impasto to translucent glazes. Watercolour is fluid and I enjoy the challenge of working on a large scale. Pen & ink wash is useful for recording information when travelling at home or abroad.”

Julie Morris

Julie Morris is a watercolour artist from South Lanarkshire. She has been an artist since the early nineties when her career began as an in-house artist for a mail order company called the Thimble Guild which was based in the town of Biggar. She hand painted on collectable thimbles and then went onto illustration work for labels on whisky and wine bottles. Her illustrative paintings were produced and transferred onto thimbles and mugs which were fired in the kiln. Since the closure of the Guild, Julie has gone on to paint mainly in watercolours for various art galleries and charity exhibitions in Scotland. “ For gallery work, I like to paint landscapes using my own sketches and photos of these locations. Occasionally I use my imagination for some and I like to incorporate a bit of collage using old maps and gold leaf to add a bit of interest and texture on handmade paper. I also use a lot of paints that include natural stone pigment in them.” Julie is honoured to have had her work accepted and exhibited along with others in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh a few times in recent years.

Catherine Rayner

Catherine employs the use of subtle colour and tone whilst playing with scale, composition and open space to create paintings and silk-screen prints of animals. Her creatures are brought to life using spontaneous and vivacious line that explores movement and personality. With effortless flow Catherine’s artwork conveys the natural habitat and beauty of creatures many of us take for granted. Facial expressions illustrate curiosity whilst the animals’ postures suggest that they have simply strayed into the frame and might just as easily leave it again. The space Catherine allows her subjects to exist in provides a powerful and sometimes poignant backdrop. Primarily it offers an uninterrupted view of the subject’s carefully studied form. Perhaps more importantly however, it asks of the viewer that they use their own intuition, prompting them to contemplate what lies both within and beyond the frame. In effect, this space acts as an imaginative springboard that invites the viewer into the image to explore it for themselves.

Claire Wills

Claire graduated in 1996 with a degree in Fine Art from the University of Humberside. She has worked in a number of educational establishments since: from nursery; primary; secondary and further education to special schools and residential schools. Working as a facilitator, emotional coach, pupil support assistant, art teacher as well as a creative adviser. Claire has travelled extensively, gaining inspiration from a wide variety of different cultures and locations such as: Tanzania; Budapest; Germany; Jamaica; Ireland; Isle of Man; the Channel Islands; Cornwall and rural Herefordshire along with Isle of Skye and various beautiful locations in Scotland. She strives to create engaging contemporary interpretations through abstract ideas of places or scenes that she has experienced or photographed on her travels. Claire enjoys making paintings of wide – open spaces, which give a feeling of calm isolation where one can be lost in thought. Yet she also likes to create images that demand attention and are full of a unique commination of pattern, texture, colour, nature and nostalgia – each work possessing an energy of a time and place in my memory. Themes in Claire’s work are land and seascapes, castles, woods, flowers and portraiture, created with an array of bold bright colours. Spontaneity is an important quality in her work. She is inspired by Scotland’s rugged landscape and lush green fields. “The huge dramatic skies, and shimmering endless seas provoke an emotional response in me that I simply must share through my art.”

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