1st  - 27th August 2006
CROSSFLOWS - 7 International Artists Interpret Japanese Woodblock

Edinburgh Art Festival

‘Crossflows’ brings together several artist printmakers of differing backgrounds, who have studied and experimented over the past decade with traditional Japanese woodblock techniques both in Japan, on scholarships, and elsewhere.  The name ‘Crossflows’ suggests an interchange and exchange of ideas and techniques from East to West and vice versa.

1st - 9th July 2006
NORTHERN SKIES

Jill Ashforth

Travelling north from her birthplace in Edinburgh to the West Highlands and the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, Jill has tried to capture that elusive quality of light for which Scotland is renowned.  Oil paintings and mixed media.

17th-28th June 2006
PORTOBELLO STORIES

Martin Fowler

The paintings involve themselves with the minutiae of daily life in Portobello as seen by an artist who was born and raised in the town and who lives there to this day.  The work is an attempt to portray not only the town for posterity through painting, but also as a means of understanding the nature and the identity of Portobello.

3rd-14th June
INOCENT GARDEN

Watercolours by Andrea Turner & Installations by Dick Lee

Andrea continues to use rose petals and memories of the sea as a means of conveying her thoughts and feelings about the fragility, transience and beauty of life, and Dick exhibits installations from the recesses of his mind.

8th - 17th MAY

LONG NIGHT MOON - the rhythm of remembrance

new work by Iona artist Mhairi Killin 

Recent mixed media work exploring the process of time on healing grief and the ascension of the spirit after death.  The title piece, Long Night Moon is a collection of images created using paper, brass and stitched silver, charting the celestial path of the moon in 2006

Exchange exhibition between An Tobar - The Tobermory Arts Centre, Isle of Mull and Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.          For An Tobar website see links page.

27TH APRIL - 3RD MAY

PUSHING UP DAISIES

Ian Healy & Kirsty Lorenz

Striking Contemporary Portraits

of Flowers and Fictional Folk

Ian Healy’s exhibition will continue to

The Arches from 10th May – 15th June

253 Argyle Street Glasgow

20TH APRIL - 26TH APRIL

Sale of Work by Miriam Vickers

6TH APRIL - 19TH APRIL

WATCH THIS SPACE

New work by Gerry McGowan.  Exhibiton tours to An Tobar Arts Centre, Tobermory, Isle of Mull.

t: 01688 302211

25th March - 5th April 2006
DRAWN FROM LIFE

The Life Drawing Group at WASPS studios invites you to our exhibition of life drawings.

email:  ldgroup2@fsmail.net

11th-22nd March 2006
FELT & NOSTALGIA

Jeanette Sendler

'MIXING FIBRES'

12 feltmakers evoke memories in this versatile medium - telling past

stories to enrich present lives

February - March 2006
CHRISSIE HEUGHAN

New Work - Installation

PAPER AND TEA

Unique works with paper formed by the simple gesture of hand papermaking.

February 2006
TIM TAYLOR

New Work - Installation

FEAR OF FLYING

A new body of work that draws inspiration from unplanned residencies in airports throughout the world.The airport encapsulates a unique environment where increased security, the movement of peoples and their control, and the heightened awareness of cultural and religious differences are manifest.

January 2006

DORIS VOETTER

New Work

Mattress Elegies

Installation work

December 2005

SIRI FRANCE

New Drawings and Paintings

December 2005

CHRISTMAS SHOW

Painting, Prints, Jewellery, Ceramics

Lorna Fraser, Mark Powell, Gerry McGowan,
Robert Ward, Teena Ramsey, Paul Furneaux
and Carol Baines.

November/December 2005
MORAY HILLARY

Painting Installation

Utilising tattoo imagery and decorative patterns, an innovative strategy can begin to be achieved using the body as point of departure. The emphasis is on the detail, and the images and shapes reveal themselves slowly, creating miniaturised traces across a landscape of flesh.

November 2005
Scotland and Andalucia

Paintings

JONATHAN SHEARER

With the support of: The Consulate General of Spain, Edinburgh, La Tasca, Spanish Tapas Bar and Restaurant
Glenkinchie Distillery,and in association with malcolm good art

October/November 2005

Blue Flowers - Red Shadows

Colour Woodcuts

PAUL FURNEAUX

After completing a Masters in Woodblock Printing at Tama Art Univerity, Tokyo, Furneaux has applied this ancient techinique to contemporary prints.

October 2005

Life Cycle
Exhibition of Prints & drawings
Gillian Murray & Joyce Gunn Cairns

JOYCE GUNN CAIRNS MBE. Works include figurative, portrait, drawing and wildlife studies. GILLIAN MURRAY. Work is based on plants - focusing on their structure, strength & delicacy.

September 2005

Marion Smith: Sculpture

The work was constructed, assembled, built and arranged using corrugated cardboard, string, velcro on an architectural scale