Rebecca’s acrylic work on linen is beautiful and captivating, the colour and detail of her work gives a true reflection of local scenes.
Rebecca’s acrylic work on linen is beautiful and captivating, the colour and detail of her work gives a true reflection of local scenes.
Rebecca paints land and seascapes in acrylic on canvas and linen, influenced by East Lothian’s coastal landmarks, spectacular sunsets, ever changing clouds and weather fronts. Trips to Wester Ross have also inspired darker, more atmospheric pieces focusing on darkening skies and shafts of light. Current exhibitions are at The Loft in Haddington, Found in Dunbar and at Hangar in Fenton Barns. Rebecca’s work has been featured in the Toun Cryer, World of Interiors Magazine and she was recently interviewed on East Coast FM’s Art Attack and featured in The Great Outdoors Magazine…
Originally from East Lothian, Rebecca spent her years of education in Perthshire (Duncan of Jordanstone) and Edinburgh (Edinburgh’s Telford College) before working in Art Department for film production. Rebecca started selling her work at The Drill Hall in Edinburgh around 15 years ago and when she returned to East Lothian in 2015 with her family, found endless inspiration on the doorstep and independent galleries willing to show her work.
Rebecca paints commissions in the style of her existing work. The brief can be of a favourite landmark, scene, weather front or colour palette. Please feel free to get in touch directly or via the gallery.
Quote from a client who commissioned an East Lothian seascape:
“…It is simply perfect. Somehow you managed to put everything I love onto one canvas and the more I look at it the more I see. The colours, composition, the light – stunning!”
Quote from a client who commissioned a scene of Loch Ryan:
“… the thing I love is it looks different from every angle you look at it, you pick up different tones … It’s just like having another window, I feel like I could walk in to it. We absolutely love it thank you so much.”
Wonderfully vibrant colours that move your soul. Margot Archibald was born in Bridge of Allan and graduated M.A.( Hons.) from the University of Edinburgh. Further postgraduate, scholarship studies were in Geneva, London and Siena…
Wonderfully vibrant colours that move your soul. Margot Archibald was born in Bridge of Allan and graduated M.A.( Hons.) from the University of Edinburgh. Further postgraduate, scholarship studies were in Geneva, London and Siena.
Now living in North Berwick, she seeks to capture and share the drama, aesthetics and music of nature, precious moments in her mainly seascape and skyscape acrylic and watercolour paintings; sharing magical and spiritual experiences from her daily beach walks. The sea, in all it’s varied moods, with changing backdrop of sky , provides her with inspiration, motivation and vision to paint.
Further information is available in Margot Archibald ART Weebly.
David’s work is dynamic and vibrant with bold textures to add to the complexity of his colours. His work evokes deep feeling…
David’s work is dynamic and vibrant with bold textures to add to the complexity of his colours. His work evokes deep feeling…
“I am a North Berwick-based artist who loves being out of doors, trying to capture the colour, mood and magic of the moment – whether it’s the cityscapes of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the fishing villages of the East Neuk of Fife or the moors and mountains of the Cairngorms or the west coast of Scotland. The high pastures and rugged peaks of the Alps in summer and winter offer a further rich source of material and more recently the sun-drenched coastline and towns of northern Majorca.
Being in the outdoors and walking the mountains, forests and coastlines, watching the changing seasons – these are some of the fundamentals that shape my work as an artist. I paint as I see it and sometimes that’s a recognisable image and sometimes it’s more abstract – it depends on the subject, mood, season and whim. But it’s great fun!”
Photographer Peter Bradley is exhibiting his wonderfully atmospheric, intimate and detailed images of Puffins and gannets with us. From the Arctic to Zambia, Afghanistan to Yemen, Peter has spent many years photographing wildlife in the world’s most fragile habitats and providing aid in the most unstable states...
Photographer Peter Bradley is exhibiting his wonderfully atmospheric, intimate and detailed images of Puffins and gannets with us. From the Arctic to Zambia, Afghanistan to Yemen, Peter has spent many years photographing wildlife in the world’s most fragile habitats and providing aid in the most unstable states.
Working with naturalists and NGOs he has witnessed the impact of environmental change on people and the natural world.
He remains optimistic. We are the first generation that understands this change, has the tools to ensure people and the planet thrive together and the collective will to make it happen.
Peter currently spends his time talking to urban fox in Central London and Barn owl in the Surrey Hills.
More of his photographs can be seen on Insta: Wild_Wordz
Sensitive and magical these thoughtfully created images are whimsical and full of joy, transporting you to a place of calm...
Sensitive and magical these thoughtfully created images are whimsical and full of joy, transporting you to a place of calm.
“Have you made an herbarium yet? I hope you will if you have not, it would be such a treasure to you…”
Emily Dickinson, 1845
East Lothian-born artist Fiona McDougall began pressing flowers at a young age, while learning about the garden and local flora with her mother.
Inspired by traditional herbaria and the Victorian practice of flower pressing, Fiona’s artwork aims to celebrate the evanescent beauty of nature.
Having lived in London for ten years as a Literature teacher, Fiona is happy to be home at last and fully able to pursue her creative ventures from her garden studio outside Gifford. She is now privileged to be passing on her floral enthusiasm to her own daughter.
Fiona McDougall
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Susan Hopkin creates gentle landscapes, punctuated with colour. They are inspiring and create a longing to be outdoors...
Susan Hopkin creates gentle landscapes, punctuated with colour. They are inspiring and create a longing to be outdoors.
“I live in the beautiful East Lothian coastal town of North Berwick and take my inspiration from my long beach walks with my dog for company.
Through this daily ritual, I can observe the seasons as they slide into each other; as the colours change from the singing palette of summer through to the monochrome of winter.
My work is made in multiple layers, with a piece taking days or weeks to finish.
Through the use of charcoal pencil, oil pastel, acrylic paint and gesso, layer upon layer is built up and then scored back to reveal the flickers of colour hidden below.
My hope is that I can convey some of that seasonal atmosphere through my work.”
Bold with colour and alive with feeling Kirsten’s work is strong with textures and captures the romance of the outdoors. Kirsten Boston is a Scottish artist who has lived and worked in the beautiful coastal region of East Lothian for most of her life…
Bold with colour and alive with feeling Kirsten’s work is strong with textures and captures the romance of the outdoors. Kirsten Boston is a Scottish artist who has lived and worked in the beautiful coastal region of East Lothian for most of her life.
Working mainly in Acrylics and Watercolours, Kirsten also enjoys creating Mixed-media works and is inspired by the beautiful scenery around her home.
The wonderful Lothian coastline, the islands of the Firth of Forth and the huge skies give Kirsten the constant sense of wonder, excitement and vigour that she brings to her paintings.
Sea Flora
Revisiting a Victorian tradition
“It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again”
-John Steinbeck. Sea of Cortez, 1951
Sea Flora
Revisiting a Victorian tradition
This exhibition of sea flora represents only a fraction of the species of seaweeds to be found growing along the east coast of Scotland. Blanketing the rocks and foreshores of our estuaries, bays and inlets, they are a familiar sight to the beach-goers, fishermen and sailors. But few of us have seen beyond the fringes of leathery wracks and rubbery kelps at harbour’s edge, or the heaped and tangled detritus cast up by a stormy sea.
Gathering and pressing seaweeds was a serious pastime for Victorians. They sent their specimens to fellow collectors around the world in quest of discovering new species and contributing to botanical science. Once dried, labelled and catalogued they were consigned to dusty albums – many of which still make up the core of our Herbarium today.
Inspired whilst collecting herbs along the beautiful coastline from Aberlady Bay to Dunbar, artist Sara Dodd returned to this tradition to look again at the flora at the water’s edge. Initially pressing to identify and display, she became engaged with the abstract beauty of organic form eroded by the destructive forces of tide and time. Her focus has evolved to capturing moments of transition, highlighting a particular specimen’s translucency, coloration, character, or flow and playing with the blur between graphic line, abstraction and aesthetics.
Sara Dodd as born in Carmel, California and grew up along the Monterey Coast and San Francisco Bay. She studied History of Art and Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley and moved to Scotland in 1988. Completing the Herbology Course at the RBGE in 2011 her work is collected by private buyers and forms the basis of new prints and textile designs.
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