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. […]

My home and studio overlook Loch Lomond where I have lived for more than 34 years with my lovely family and dogs. Whilst working in the events industry then running my own business, my first and over-riding love was always paint and colour. This led me many years ago to study locally with an influential […]

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.

Award-winning artist Darren Rees received the coveted Artist in Residency honour from the Friends of The Scott Polar Research Institute and Bonhams. He travelled with the Royal Navy on HMS Protector from the Falkland Islands to the Antarctic Peninsula and his new book Ice Bound documents his journey with a collection of over 150 sketches, […]

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, […]

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. […]

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 […]