Photography as a Tool of Transformation
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Past Online Exhibitions
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we introduced the online exhibition platform for our artists. This feature was pivotal in keeping art alive during the various lockdowns and meant that the exhibitions could be viewed by a much larger audience. This was a significant feature for those whose were still trying to express their thoughts and ideas during this time and provided them with a platform to do so.
You can view an archive of our past online exhibitions below:
By intensely focusing on the landscape throughout this year, we’ve observed continuous changes. In the process, we become a part of the ebb & flow.
We invite you to join in our State of Flow and notice features of landscape often ignored.
For all enquiries: email Veronika Mckerrell or call 07543 084 387
Where do I belong?
Well, through much meandering, nowhere in particular.
Land’s edges, native tree habitats, ancient hills and the Yellows or Blues of Japanese Prints and V van Gogh echo a familiar, liminal space in which to play with shape and colour.
“Our home is the garden, and deep within us is the yearning to hear its song again” – JP Newell, Christ of the Celts.
I think of John Muir who said, ‘When I heard the storm I made haste to join it; for in storms nature has always something extra fine to show us…’
Out in the landscape, my mind flows between: -
Being in a particular time and place, and belonging to different places through time.
Choosing a motif to paint from the landscape happens when there is a resonance between the now and my imagination.
Once I’ve captured an image by sketch or photo, I return to the same motif many times. Collage adds another layer connecting the now to my imagination or dream or art images. The final process was to play with various acrylic textures and use oil to develop the final image. The sepia colours reference old photos slightly worn by various viewers over time.
Through much meandering, nowhere, really.
Now the sea is close by.
"Our home is the garden, and deep within us is the yearning to hear its song again" - John Philip Newell, 'Christ of the Celts'.
Land's edges, native tree habitats and ancient hills echo familiar, deserted, liminal spaces of long ago; a frame within which to explore shape and colour.
"Colour must (...) give things greater style by simplifying them" - Vincent van Gogh.
My empty spaces reflect a pilgrimage through the crowd into a quieter, different creative space.
Last year, the Drawing Course drew me - literally! - into looking and looking again. It has been a "deep end" experience again this year among a cohort of experienced and gifted Artists.
Instagram: @priscakemp
I have been lucky enough to have lived in Traquair near Peebles for almost 30 years. It is a beautiful area that I got to know intimately, with its splendid hills and the valleys of the River Tweed and its tributaries. These three pictures are part of a collection of paintings in which I have tried to capture the gentle shapes and ever changing textures and colours of this region throughout the year.
For me, inspiration comes from each individual’s interpretation of our natural world and from nature itself.
I am always inspired by nature: by its seasonal changes and the routines and traditions which result from these changes. These untamed, ever changing elements of the land, sea and sky are a constant source of creativity and inspiration.
Brought up on a farm in the Pennines, I now live in Edinburgh. Since retiring from a career in people development, I have taken a variety of art courses at the City Lit in London and at Leith School of Art.
I am a member of a women’s group of artists called Women with Artitude, who are based in and around Edinburgh.
I am an experimental painter, who likes working mainly in oils, with brushes, knives, rags, sponges, netting etc - in fact whatever is at hand! I seem to be mostly attracted to cityscapes, and to the intricate patterns of the buildings next to each other.
website: www.gracefulart.co.uk