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Scene from the National Theatre of Scotland’s Ghost Light, part of this year’s digital-only Edinburgh International Festival under the
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ALISON KINNAIRD M.B.E ART IN GLASS 2020OPEN STUDIO EXHIBITION
1st – 31st August and thereafter by appointment • 10am – 5pm
Shillinghill, Temple, Midlothian. EH23 4SH • Tel: 01875 830 328 • Email: [email protected]
www.alisonkinnaird.com
An Open Studio Exhibition in the historic village of Temple
Alison has an international reputation for her work in glass and music.
She will be displaying new work, some of which came directly out of the COVID-19 situation.
The gallery is a large airy building which can welcome visitors safely. Visitors may phone to arrange a private viewing.
Online Virtual Tour and more information available at: www.alisonkinnaird.com
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� Opened for only a short time before the doors were closed because of you-know-what, Lines From Scotland has resumed at Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries (until Oct 25). Curated by Fife Contemporary, the exhibition explores the myriad ways in which three generations of Scottish artists have worked with physical mark-making, including animation, archaeological records, botanical drawing, landscapes, portraits and designs. Visitors are required to book time-slots, although if you arrive without a reservation, you will be welcome to enter if one is available. Pictured: Details of ceramics by Frances Priest, www.onfife.com/venues/dunfermline-carnegie-library-galleries
t The reopening exhibition at Gallery Q in Dundee continues with featured artists Sigrid Shone and Martin Hill (until Aug 15). Sigrid has adopted a new technique called ‘verre eglomise’ (gilded glass) with a series of studies of roses, while Martin has a new body of both pastel and oil paintings. They are joined by Fife wildlife artist Derek Robertson RSW and nature-inspired Welsh artist Kim Dewsbury. The exhibition also includes several examples of Frank To’s coronavirus responses on UK government envelopes and new work from Jean Martin RSW, Nichola Martin, Fiona Sturrock, Helga Chart RSW RWS, Jackie Cartwright, Pauline Patrick, Elizabeth Haines and Graham Wands. Pictured: Martin Hill, Steeple at Sunset www.galleryq.co.uk
� This year’s annual John Lowrie Morrison OBE exhibition at the Archway Gallery in Lochgilphead is Canalscapes: Holland, Scotland, Venezia (Aug 8-31) for which one of Scotland’s most popular and prolific artists, affectionately known as “Jolomo”, has produced a new selection of themed works. Pictured: A Gerderland Sunset, Holland www.thearchway.co.uk
q The weekly online Getting to Know series at Dublin’s Doorway Gallery continues with a new series of abstract landscapes by Ken Browne (Aug 10-16) and a Facebook Q&A (Thur Aug 13, 8pm). The Getting to Know concept is designed to give viewers an insight into an artist’s workplace, the ideas behind the works and the development of a painting before it reaches the gallery. You can even see how a work might look hanging on your own wall by downloading the gallery’s new preview app and following the set-up instructions. Pictured: A Stormy Evening www.thedoorwaygallery.com ���
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In 1971 the American experimental composer Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) wrote a series of Sonic Meditations that anyone can follow, regardless of musical knowledge or ability, to achieve a state of deep listening and a sense of well-being by paying close attention to breath, body and surrounding sounds. Inspired by Oliveros’ work, Scottish Ensemble invites people to join them in creating “Tumbling Song”, the 14th Sonic Meditation in the composer’s cycle. To take part, visit the Scottish Ensemble website, where you will hear members’ instruments and voices, and follow instructions on how to add your own sounds. Submissions are accepted until August 19 after which a final mix will be completed and visuals added before it goes live on the website. www.scottishensemble.co.uk/tumbling-song
David Atherton: Drawing Aside the Journey at the Dunoon Burgh Hall Gallery is the venue’s first post-lockdown exhibition. Presented in a broad range of media, including pencil, watercolour, acrylic, printmaking and mixed media, the works span two decades of ‘everyday life’, showing subjects which have impressed and inspired the artist and including landscape, portraiture, social comment and industrial heritage. Pictured: The Gantocks, winter www.dunoonburghhall.org.uk ���
Featured artist in August at Larks Gallery in Ballater is Helen Bruce. A graduate of Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, she works mainly in oils, allowing for a spontaneous and intuitive response to Highland landscapes and the northeast coastal villages of Catterline and Stonehaven. Pictured: Catterline Cliff www.larksgallery.com
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Unable to occupy its customary marquee and custom-built stalls, the annual West End Fair by 3D/2D is appearing online this year (Aug 8-30). Since its 1984 launch in the grounds of St John’s Church at the west end of Princes Street in Edinburgh, the art, craft and design showcase has become a staple of the Fringe. This year over a hundred artists, designers and craftmakers will have quality, hand-made products for sale. www.3d2d.online ���
The National Theatre of Scotland continues to roll out new episodes in its Scenes for Survival series of digital short films. They include: Alan Cumming in Out of the Woods (pictured), a three-part story filmed entirely by the actor near his home in the Catskills mountains in New York State in which he plays a father struggling to pick up his daughter from her other dad before his real intentions slowly become clear; Jonathan Watson in A Mug’s Game on the legacy of asbestos poisoning in the Glasgow shipyards; Brian Cox as Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus struggling with isolation in The Lockdown Blues; and Janey Godley as a long-suffering housewife freed from her controlling husband in Alone Part 2, a follow-up to a previous episode. Further shorts will be released weekly. www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/scenesforsurvival, www.bbc.co.uk/scenesforsurvival
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Arturs Akopjans: My Colour is Summer at Coast Art in Dunbar (until Aug 22) is the Armenian-born, Latvia-based painter’s first solo exhibition in Scotland. His naive, almost childish style is often compared to the work of Joan Eardley. Pictured: Sophia, acrylic & mixed media www.coastart.co.uk
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The Granary Gallery in Berwick upon Tweed reopens on August 8 with another opportunity to see Yvonne Parr’s exhibition Heaven, Hell and Earth (until Aug 23), featuring paintings from throughout her career. Filled with black humour, pathos, love and metamorphosis, Parr’s landscapes and figurative works are often inspired by the books of Cormac McCarthy and Patrick White and from time spent living locally and in Istanbul. She studied at Chelsea School of Art, Byam School of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts and has exhibited throughout the UK. Pictured: There’s An Angel Looking Over Your Shoulder, oil on canvas, 2006 www.berwickvisualarts.co.uk
Every year Visual Arts Scotland visits degree shows around the country looking for the best emerging artists and designers working in contemporary applied and fine arts to feature in their annual Graduate Showcase. From 142 graduate applicants, shown this year on digital platforms only, they have selected seven rising stars whose works are now on display (until Dec 31). Pictured: Daphne Jiyeon Jang (Contemporary Art Practice MFA, Edinburgh College of Art), Babel the Golden Boy www.visualartsscotland.org ���
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The Edinburgh International Festival will take place on TV screens and online this year under the banner My Light Shines On. The programme begins with the screening on BBC Scotland and the Festival’s YouTube channel of a one-hour film celebrating the city’s festivals (Sat Aug 8). Lunchtime visitors to Princes Street Gardens will be able to hear audio recordings of concerts by the likes of mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison, pianist Angela Hewitt, tenor Nicky Spence and members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. A spectacular light show will illuminate city skies (Aug 8-10). Inspired by the Primal Scream song “Movin’ On Up”, it will feature beacons shone from venues such as the Festival Theatre, the Usher Hall, the Traverse Theatre, the Royal Lyceum, The Stand and Summerhall.
During lockdown actors, musicians, dancers and orchestras have returned to venues across the city to record performances for new films which will be released over the next few weeks. They include the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Ballet, Scottish Opera, actors Fiona Shaw and Alan Cumming, music from Honeyblood and Aidan O’Rourke as well as poetry and comedy. Pictured: Honeyblood at Leith Theatre www.eif.co.uk
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This traditional shopping basket by Tim Palmer is made in buff willow with a wrapped handle. The sides can be woven solid, with contrasting bands of weaving and waling (raised surfacing) and handles can be side-to-side (better for carrying over the arm) or end-to-end (for carrying in the hand). www.timpalmerbasketmaker.co.uk
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Inspired by the natural world around her in the Scottish Borders, textile artist and quiltmaker Pauline Burbidge uses traditional techniques to make wall hangings and practical, usable quilts, collaging and stitching them together to create what she thinks of as ‘textile landscapes’. www.paulineburbidge-quilts.com
With an eye to practicality as much as aesthetics, Namon Gaston creates timeless furniture pieces and future heirlooms. Passionate about timber, he lets the materials speak for themselves using both traditional and modern production processes. Each piece is meticulously designed and hand-made to order. Pictured: Cùram desk in oak www.namongaston.com
Often inspired by landscape and natural forms, stained glass artist Emma Butler-
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Inspired by geology, ancient history and changing landscapes, Rhona McCallum makes jewellery collections in recycled silver and gold which combine rugged, natural textures with bold, sculptural forms. Forged and carved lines run through the pieces, accentuated by flashes of gold, referencing geological fractures and lines and layers in stone. Pictured: Neolithic earrings www.rhonamccallum.com
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Dutch-born, Dundee-based ceramicist Roos Eisma makes sculptural vessels in forms which are partly planned and partly allowed to develop organically. She hand-builds them in stoneware, shaping and darting to create a curved shape out of flat pieces of clay slabs before fine modelling and glazing to create surface details. www.rooseisma.co.uk
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...isms: Understanding Modern Art, by Sam Phillips, pub. Bloomsbury It seems that more than any other creative pursuit, art is defined by ‘isms’. Starting in the late 19th century artists coined isms to describe their particular work, while in other cases critics or other observers invented a term. (In the latter case, these descriptions were
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500 Self-Portraits, var. editors, pub. Phaidon The challenge of interpreting and recreating their own likeness has proven irresistible to artists through the ages. First recognised during the Renaissance, the genre is explored here through works by many of the world’s greatest artists – from Dürer and Rembrandt to David Hockney
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Lowry’s Lamps, by Richard Mayson, pub. Unicorn The author looks at the work of L. S. Lowry in a new way by examining a telling detail featured throughout the artist’s work. Lowry (1887-1976) lived through a period of transformation, when often ornate gas streetlamps of the industrial age gave way to their
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Street Art, by Ed Bartlett, pub. Lonely Planet Defacement to some, beautification to others, street art has struggled to gain respect. While bands of illicit, aerosol-wielding ‘taggers’ do nothing more than practice graffiti of
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Finland’s cool capital is a hot destination for art-lovers.
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Helsinki is a compact city of around 630,000 residents spread out from Senate Square, the official centre of town, where steep steps
lead up to the Cathedral, gleaming brilliant white under its turquoise onion domes and glittering gold statues. Most of the city’s buildings date from the 1850s (the oldest stone building was erected in 1857), when an extensive construction programme was undertaken to celebrate the new capital after it assumed the role from Turku. Sitting on a compact peninsula jutting into the Baltic and laid out in a classic grid system, much of the city is designed in lowrise, Russian Imperial style (Finland was formerly under Russian rule) with some elegant, neo-Renaissance architecture added later along with a dollop of Art Nouveau. Helsinki’s defining feature is water. The city is virtually surrounded by it, and nearly three quarters of its total area are covered by it. With almost 100 kilometres of coastline (including two dozen bathing beaches), several harbours and ocean-front parklands, you’re never far from a sea view.
First stop on any art tour of Helsinki has to be the Ateneum Art Museum. Home to the country’s most extensive collection, it tells the story of Finnish art from the 1750s to the early 1960s. Opened in 1888, the Ateneum’s grand entrance hall and stairway hark back to the days when an art gallery was a place of reverence. The Ateneum is unsurpassed in showcasing the ‘golden age’ of Finnish art (roughly, from the 1880s to 1910), with many national treasures on view by beloved national names such as Albert Edelfeld, Pekka Halonen, Helene Schjerfbeck and Akseli Gallen-Kallela, who were often inspired by Finnish folklore and mythology such as The Kalevala, a collection of ancient poems.
As well as some of the best loved Finnish artworks, the Ateneum has a small selection of international art from the late 19th century to the 1950s, including works by Gaugin, van Gogh, Cezanne and Chagall, and a gallery dedicated to special exhibitions. www.ateneum.fi
Continuing the story of Finnish art from the 1960s onwards is the nearby Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, a sleek, white, minimalist building on five levels connected by a curved ramp. Taking its name from the Greek word for ‘crossing point’ (and also a term for the intersection of optic nerves), the museum focuses on Nordic, Baltic and international contemporary art, including installations, paintings, film and photography. www.kiasma.fi
On the upper floor of a former tennis centre which has been renovated as a retail, restaurant and cinema complex, the Helsinki Art Museum, or HAM (motto: ‘Popcorn for the brain’), shows a terrific collection of Finnish and international 20th century art under a sweeping, curved roof in a light, airy, hangar-like space ideal for viewing large-scale works. The 9,000-piece collection includes some of the top names in modern art, such as Niki de Saint Phalle, Roy Lichtenstein and Louise Bourgeois. Most public artworks and statues dotted around the city streets and in parks belong to the HAM collection. www.hamhelsinki.fi
Opened in 1928 in a building which is one the finest examples of Finnish neo-
Classical design, the Kunsthalle (Art Hall) champions contemporary art and design displayed under soaring ceilings. Look out for lovely touches such as period tile, a patterned ‘cassette roof’ in the main art hall and repeated round shapes echoing the medallions on the exterior walls. www.taidehalli.fi
In 1921 the brewing magnate Paul Sinebrychoff bequeathed his private art collection, the largest in the Nordic countries at the time, to the state. His home now hosts the Sinebrychoff Art Museum, where the sumptuous
interiors, including antique furniture, silverware, porcelain and other exquisite objets d’art, seem frozen in time, giving an insight into stylish early 20th century living. Surrounding them is Finland’s most significant collection of paintings by foreign Old Masters, ranging from the 14th century to the 1850s and including works by Flemish, Dutch, Italian, English and French artists such as Cranach, Rembrandt, Tiepolo, Daubigny and many others. The lower floor, with its vaulted brick ceiling, is an atmospheric setting for displaying religious icons. www.sinebrychoffintaidemuseo.fi
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Art NouveauA couple of areas show off Helsinki’s Art Nouveau heritage best. In the Katajanokka district, Luotsikatu (‘katu’ is Finnish for street) is arguably the city’s best preserved street, while Huvilakatu in the Kalliolinnantie district has some of the city’s most attractive houses of their kind. Even if you’re not planning to go anywhere, pop into the Central Railway Station opposite the Ateneum Art Museum, where four granite, torch-bearing giants guard the main entrance to the Art Nouveau building, named one of the world’s most beautiful stations in a BBC survey. The interior walls feature beautiful murals and there are many elegant touches in the facings and fixtures.
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Opened in 2018, Amos Rex is Helsinki’s latest art museum as well as being one of the largest private art museums in Finland. Named after the newspaper publisher and arts patron Amos Anderson (1878-1961), the museum has a permanent display of the post-
Impressionist collection assembled by the architect Sigurd Frosterus (1876-1956), best known for designing the nearby Stockmann department store on Mannerheimintie, Helsinki’s main commercial street. Amos Rex also shows changing exhibitions by living artists as well as loaned works. The spectacular subterranean complex has large, street-level skylights like bulging eyes, where passers-by can peer down into the gallery spaces below. www.amosrex.fi
Helsinki is home to Europe’s biggest independent cultural centre. Spread over a 12-acre site, the Kaapeli (Cable Factory) formerly produced telephone and electricity cables before becoming a Nokia factory. (The mobile phone company is Finland’s biggest international
Music-lovers may want to make a pilgrimage to the weird memorial to Finland’s most famous contributor to the music world. No, not Eurovision winners Lordi (remember them?), but the composer Jean Sibelius. The Sibelius Monument is an odd steel and stone structure – are they stalagmites or organ pipes? – overlooked by a glowering giant head of the maestro. Most of Sibelius’ symphonies were premiered at Finlandia Hall, home to the Helsinki Philharmonic, with the composer himself conducting.
For the “Wow!” factor, head over to the Tempelliaukio Church, or ‘church in the rock’, which was quarried out of solid bedrock. Its walls are bare stone and it has a natural water feature. With its massive copper dome, from the outside it looks like a flying saucer.
The Kunsthalle (Art Hall) Sinebrychoff Art Museum
brand.) Today it has been converted into a complex of artists’ studios, galleries, theatre and dance spaces, radio stations and a popular cafe-restaurant. Nine hundred people go to work there every day. www.kaapelitehdes.fi
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Seascape and Landscape Paintings by
Angela Lawrence
Open all year 10.30 am - 5pm Mon-Sat (Tues 10.30 - 4) Clience Studio, By the Clocktower, 212 King Street, Castle Douglas DG7 1DS 07902 301 883 www.cliencestudio.co.uk angelalawrencecliencestudio
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We can’t be with you in person this year, please join us online.
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A SUMMER TO REMEMBERFRIDAY 10 JULY - SAT 5 SEPTEMBER 2020
Tricia Barna, Fiona Brown, Lizzie Farey, Jackie Henderson, Robert Pereira-Hind, Morag Lloyds, Kevan McGinty,
Fiona Millar, Anne Skinner, Karen Stamper.
Exclusive Online Collections by Susan Cairns & Dominique Cameron. Glass: Amanda Simmons & Debbie Lord. Sculpture by Lynn Muir.
Ceramic Sculpture by Pratima Kramer.
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along with lots of our gallery favourites and introducing some new names to
the gallery... 25th July - 30th Aug
The Torrance GalleryThe No-Festival Festival Exhibition
www.torrancegallery.co.uk36 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6JN
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SPECIALIST SHIPPERS OF FINE ART & ANTIQUESOur Service Centres are now open for customers and following safety guidelines.
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‘Pack and Send offer a professional, informed and efficient service for both the gallery and its clients. We often ship high value, delicate items and Pack & Send create affordable, customised crates and deliver art works safely‘
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Helsinki is a UNESCO City of Design, and a whole area has been designated the Design District, a cluster of 25 streets and 200 shops, showrooms, galleries, jewellers and vintage and antiques stores. Pick up a map at any outlet and explore for yourself or join a guided tour. www.designdistrict.fi A 20-minute tram ride from the city centre, the Iittala and Arabia Design Centre has outlets for famous Finnish design brands, including beautiful wooden products for the home by Pentik, Finlayson textiles (founded by the Scottish mill owner James Finlayson), Iittala glass and Hackman ceramics. www.designcentrehelsinki.com
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The Finns, like their Swedish neighbours, are passionate about design. They talk about it like other people talk about food or sex. Behind the grand, red brick facade of the Design Museum, Finnish Form is a permanent exhibition of design objects from the second half of the 19th century to the present, exploring the role that design plays in society in line with legendary designer Eero Aarnio’s credo that ‘the ultimate purpose of design is to make our lives easier and function better’. Aarnio gained worldwide attention for his Ball Chair, first introduced in 1966. www.designmuseum.fi The glassware company Iittala is best known for its iconic Aalto (Finnish for ‘wave’) design. First introduced at the 1936 Paris Exhibition, it was once chosen by Finnish consumers as their top national brand. Designed by Alvar Aalto
(1898-1976), a revered figure in Finland, it has been used for everything from vases and candle-holders to napkin-holders and ice cube moulds. Whereas elsewhere in Europe Iittala is sold in specialty stores, in Finland you can pick up a piece in your local supermarket. www.iittala.com Hand-made and ethically produced in Finland, the Ivana Helsinki clothing range by Paola Suhonen combines modern Scandinavian with a traditional touch to create a look of sophisticated girlishness. Who but a Finnish designer would describe her clothes as “full of positive melancholy and hope of tomorrow”? www.ivanahelsinki.com Kalevala and Lapponia are iconic names in Finnish jewellery design. The 70-year-old company which produces them first made pieces as replicas of objects in the National Museum. Today most of the designs are new, often with a story behind them, such as the Carmen and The Tales of Hoffmann collections based on operas presented by the Finnish National Opera. www.kalevalajewellery.fiwww.lapponia.com Other top native designers with an international reputation include Artek furniture and Marimekko fabrics. Both have retail outlets in Helsinki, or you can browse their products at Design Forum Finland, a showcase and exhibition space for the best of Finnish design.
Ball Chair designed by Eero Aarnio
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Earlier this year, Stills photography centre in Edinburgh invited photographers all over the UK to take part in a collaborative artwork entitled ‘Elementary Blueprint’. Hundreds of participants developed cyanotype paper (also known as blueprint) by placing it outdoors and exposing it to the unpredictability of the elements, with the sun, wind and rain leaving their mark in various ways. Here are some of the fascinating results. www.stills.org
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ARCADIAN RHAPSODY25 July – 5 September
Paintings by Sheila Anderson Hardy Prints and etchings by Kit Boyd
51 High Street, Coldstream TD12 4DL. 01890 254 010 or 07980 402 755www.whitefoxgallery.co.uk [email protected] 10am-5pm. Wed 10am-1pm
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June Carey RSW RGI PAI is a multiple award-winning artist whose work
has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the UK and
abroad. Her work is in many public and private collections, including the Royal
Bank of Scotland, Oxford University, BBC Television, Highland Region and
Dundee District Council.
‘Forbiden Love’, gouache &
acrylic
Evocative landscapes by Simon Rivett from his recent Borderlands
series of the Scottish Borders in which he captures the graphic rhythms of the fields and walls,
using colour and shape to create works which are full of harmony,
playfulness and joy.
‘Winter Borders Two’, watercolour on paper
Intimate figurative paintings by Kevin Low from his Women and Men series. For several
years a photographer of stage performances, Kevin’s
understanding of lighting, drama and the precisely chosen moment
have resulted in a resonant collection of images.
‘Lilac Skirt’, oil on panel
‘Sweet Thoughts of You’,
gouache
‘The Night Pool’, acrylic & mixed media on panel
‘Pink Dress’, oil on panel
‘Pink Shorts’, oil on panel
‘Winter Borders Three’, watercolour on paper
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‘Winter Borders One’, watercolour on paper
W E E K LY O N L I N E E X H I B I T I O N S S E R I E S
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