by Fiona Swapp
Fiona Swapp is a contemporary artist and designer known for investigating the connection between people and plants through her abstract and naturalistic art practice. From an early age, she took an interest in the relationship between plants and the land around the shorelines of her hometown. Fiona works via drawing and painting on paper and linen.
Born in 1965 in Aberdeen, United Kingdom, she studied Art and Design at Ruthrieston College, Aberdeen; a Diploma of Botanical Illustration at the Society of Botanical Artists, St. Albans; and undertook an MA in Fine Art (Painting) at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen.
Her work was recently exhibited at the Royal Academy, London; Trinity Buoy Wharf, London; Glasgow Art Club; Royal Scottish Academy; and the Meffan Museum and Art Gallery, Forfar. The artist currently lives and works in Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
www.fionaswapp.co.uk
@fionaswapp
by Anne Fenton
I enjoy painting in oils and acrylics, predominantly painting Scottish land, sea and mountainscapes. I also create mixed media pieces and fibre art.
My work has been exhibited at various locations in the Grampian area. More works can be viewed at my Studio/Gallery in Methlick, Aberdeenshire.
Facebook/Instagram pages – ‘Anne Fenton Artworks’
by Janette Kerr
My drawing The trapper’s hut is on show at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024
3 – 16 Oct 2024.
The exhibition then tours to museums & galleries in Salisbury, Falmouth, Dundee, and Manchester, until October 2025
London address: Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, Poplar, London E14 0JW
https://www.trinitybuoywharf.com/news/trinity-buoy-wharf-drawing-prize-2024-shortlist-and-exhibition-announced
I’m showing two small paintings in Squaring Up 30×30 at Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen. 5th Oct to 9th Nov 2024
https://galleryheinzel.com/exhibitions/45-squaring-up-aberdeen-artists-society-annual-exhibition-2024/
by Jane Glue
Jane Glue has worked as an artist in the Orkney Islands for over 35years. Jane’s earlier work was mainly in watercolour but more recently she has been using mixed media such as collage, acrylic’s, inks and ‘found’ objects from the shoreline. Jane sells her work through her own website www.janeglue.com and has exhibited throughout the UK.
by Bryan Angus
My work looks at landscape and how people have made their mark. I’m interested in our lived environment, how in older buildings we can see how communities have grown and built together, from the very stones that were hefted into place to the way one home embraces and supports its neighbour, and how the bones of the land shape how we move around and live our lives.
My chosen technique is lino print. I will walk the landscape, drawing and photographing. I then create an ink painting of the print to be. This is traced on to a block of lino, drawn up again, I then cut away with small gouges where I don’t want the ink to appear. Then a roller with printing ink lays a layer of ink on the block, a sheet of paper pressed down and the image reverses back to the landscape we recognise. Editions of prints are hand made and in small numbers.
I was born in Aberdeen and studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen from 1978 to 1982, graduating with a Diploma in Fine Art (Painting). My next 20 years I worked as a community artist, theatre designer, festival director, arts centre manager and an arts officer in Bristol. In 2003 with my wife Carla we established The Creative Retreat, an artist residency centre and art holiday business in Gardenstown. Since then I have been recovering my practice, starting printmaking in 2012. I have been exhibiting across the UK and in other countries – where I had residencies, in Istanbul, Norway and Italy. I am currently working on illustration projects with writers, on commercial projects and making my own work.
by Marion Boddy-Evans
Marion Boddy-Evans is a painter with an interest in line, pattern and colour found in the landscape and coast. After fourteen years on Skye, Marion moved to northeastern Aberdeenshire, where there’s endless miles of seashore, rocky beaches, and a more colourful geological mix. This has led to her spending more time painting on location, exploring patterns and pebbles on the seashore, as well as in her flower garden.
Recent exhibitions include Life Lines with Fife Contemporary, Colours at Aberdeen Arts Society (2023); Words and Fish at Skyeworks Gallery, Isle of Skye (2018 and 2019); and solo exhibitions Colours of Spring at Inchmore Gallery, Inverness (2017); and Interlude at Skyeworks Gallery, (2016).
Website: www.marion.scot
Studio blog: https://marion.scot/blog/
Social media: Mastodon, Instagram
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