Second Annual Exhibition of 2018
Resipole Studios May 18 – June 29 2018
RESIPOLE Studios and Fine Art Gallery has unveiled its second annual show of 2018.
It includes At the Edge in the main hall – a group exhibition of artists taking inspiration from the Scottish coastline, and a collection of psychedelic art in the Red Gallery by Stephen French, Rodger Insh and Keith Thomson, as well as the gallery’s first ever Postcard Show showing in the White Gallery.
At the Edge showcases new work by three regular exhibitors at Resipole – Alan B. Hayman, Jonathan Shearer and Jim Wright – and introduces Ruth Brownlee, a multi-award winning landscape painter based in Shetland. Since gaining a degree at the Edinburgh College of Art, Brownlee has become one of Scotland’s foremost contemporary landscape painters, exhibiting across the UK and receiving a long list of grants and awards.
Shetland’s skies and seas are a constant inspiration for her work.
She said: ‘My paintings are based on my experiences of living in the Shetland environment and are concerned with capturing the atmosphere, the play of light on the sea and coastal landscape, through mixed-media.’
The gallery has also introduced the work of Beth Robertson Fiddes. Originally from Tiree, Fiddes travels around the western Highlands and islands to collect source material and sketches which are then worked up into larger landscape pieces in her studio near Ullapool.
‘I refer often to memories of my early childhood at Hynish on Tiree, playing and exploring the shoreline there, trying to attach meaning and a story to everything I found or saw,’ she explained
In the Red Gallery, Stephen French and Rodger Insh team up with their lecturer from art school Keith Thomson.
Having all acquired their formative styles and aesthetic sensibility at Duncan of Jordanston College of Art at the height of the psychedelic art movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the two contemporaries and their mentor have come together after 40 years to present a body of multi-medium work. Inspired by the two-dimensional psychedelic graphic art from their art school-days, the three artists draw on parallels while revealing their own individual style, discipline and practice.
The Postcard Show is approximately 200 postcard-sized panels by participants from across the UK, which will be on show in the White Gallery at this time.
The ‘open-call’ project gives high school-aged children and amateur artists the chance to showcase their work alongside mid-career and established artists – a great opportunity for budding collectors to get their hands on original work for a tiny price!