The Union Gallery never fails to deliver and Annette Edgars’ current exhibition is no exception. This is a Solo exhibition for Anne who graduated from Glasgow College of Art in 1980.

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Under its new ownership of Jilly Dobson the Open Eye Gallery, in the midst of gallery-land in Edinburgh, goes from strength to strength. The current exhibition is a wonderful mixture of traditional works and new ones. As well as John Byrne, Peter Howson, Elizabeth Blackadder, William Baillie, and Genevieve Draper are exciting three dimensional pieces using driftwood and acrylic by Michael Lythgoe. Also Sarah Carrington has a wonderful collection of watercolours depicting coastlines from Ireland to Iona. Read the rest of this entry »

Edinburgh’s Union gallery is always full of surprises. Their latest one features two interpretations of the same picture, the Lonely Lighthouse. Right, painted in 1978, is one by the father, John Auldjo, and left is the same picture interpreted by his daughter Alison this year.

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For many years now Audrey Grant, currently having her first Solo Exhibition at Edinburgh’s Union Gallery has been fascinated by paint. She explains, “The figures grew out of a dialogue between the paint and me and are invented and imagined, not specific to an individual. Put simply, I make figures out of oil paint and try to let the paint be paint.”

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After many years of reviewing art exhibitions I find many successful artists have not gone through art college but have a creative passion they cannot ignore. Read the rest of this entry »

Mount Stuart on Bute, the home of the Marquesses of Bute, is a massive Gothic revival mansion built on a site long associated with the Stuart family.  The Masterpieces of Mount Stuart (running until 2 December 2012) in the Scottish National Gallery on the Mound features nineteen of Mount Stuart’s paintings, mainly Dutch and Flemish works of the 16^thand 17^th centuries.

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