Prize-winning children’s author and illustrator, Catherine Rayner, has opened an exhibition of new and original art work at the Line Gallery in Linlithgow.  Several of her best known characters, including Miles and Giles, the scurrying pheasants, appear but the largest single set of subjects are Harris, Miriam, Frazer and a rich collection of their fellow-hares.

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The Printmaker’s Gallery features an exhibition by well-known Scottish artist Paul Furneaux exploring the theme of landscape through the Japanese woodblock printing technique Mokuhanga. This exhibition explores the development of the artist’s use of this technique over the past decade, with an emphasis on his most recent series, which has seen his 2D practice develop into 3D wall-mounted sculptural objects.

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The prolific output of well-known and loved artist, Perpetua Pope, is even more amazing when we consider at 95 years of age she is still producing new work, painting daily in her studio. She gave up teaching in 1972 to concentrate on her own paintings and has become increasingly popular. The latest works are currently part of an Exhibition at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh. Read the rest of this entry »

Janet Melrose,  a talented artist based in Crieff, has her first solo exhibition currently at the Union Gallery in Edinburgh. It is entitled ‘A Still Life’ and lives up to all expectations.

Through her beautiful paintings Janet connects art and nature in a way which is both enchanting and, at times, almost whimsical. Read the rest of this entry »