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John Gerrie

John Gerrie

Website http://JohnGerrie.co.uk

Tel: 07931 436 753

I am John Gerrie a Scottish watercolour artist from Aberdeen.

My love for art began during my school years, where I first explored creativity through drawing and painting. Although life led me down a different path as a chartered surveyor with architectural experience, sketching and detailed drawings remained a part of my professional life, quietly nurturing my artistic foundation.

In 2017, upon retiring, Alison encouraged me to join a local art class. Within just a few months, I completed my first watercolour—a painting of the iconic Neuschwanstein Castle. This marked the beginning of a new chapter where my architectural background seamlessly blended with my artistic pursuits.

Today, I specialize in watercolours, a medium both challenging and rewarding. My work reflects a love for detail and includes a range of subjects: historic buildings, landscapes, seascapes, village scenes, and intricate pen-and-ink combinations.

I also take great joy in creating commissioned pieces, collaborating with clients to craft unique artworks that hold personal meaning and bring lasting joy.

Explore my collection, and discover the stories told through every brushstroke.

Karen Welding

Karen Welding

www.karenweldingart.com

07715550727

I graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee with a Bdes (hons) in constructed textiles in 1995. I have always enjoyed sketching and working with wool and threads, but in the past couple of years, I have begun to explore painting.

I love texture and bright colours and seem to be drawn more to landscape scenes that are loosely based on Scottish cities and coastal harbours. I like to include adventurous Lowry inspired stick figures exploring their environment and having fun.

I spent my early years living abroad in Oman and Borneo and spent a few years travelling around Australia in my 20s. I’ve always been interested in travel and different cultures and colourful scenery from around the world. I’m now lucky enough to be working as a full-time artist and feel incredibly grateful to be able to do this. I like to create eye-catching work that is fun, bright, colourful, and that will stand out and will make others hopefully feel happy too.

Donnie Ross

Donnie Ross

Dr. Donnie Ross has been an active member of Aberdeen Artists Society for 40 years, serving as President in 1990-92 and 2021-23. He was a founder-member of Grampian Hospitals Arts Trust, which he chaired for 10 years. He has been a flamenco guitarist (El Escocés) in a South London Chinese Restaurant and in a Stockholm nightclub, a medical officer at Brand’s Hatch Racetrack, a co-pilot in the Isle of Man air-race, a hospital consultant for 35 years, a medical director for 8 years and an Aberdeenshire crofter / tree planter for 40 years, now mixing Scottish native species with Sequoia and other giant redwoods.

In general, science and medicine abhor ambiguity, but art and creativity revel in generating alternative  interpretations, constantly raising expectations only to subvert them. The twist in the tale or in the tune; the double take of visual phenomena, the pattern-matching hardwired into our every sensory modality, all of which by their very nature are vulnerable to playful subversion. So I believe if it ain’t subversive, it probably isn’t art!

A constant preoccupation for me has been how can we in our current era relate authentically to nature, to integrate our milieu intérieur with the external world. And maybe the crux of the problem lies in our emotional and neurophysiological evolution in mesolithic times, which could account for the dysphoria, the restless sense of unease that often afflicts us in cities, where we may feel shrunk, peripheralised and negated by the endless stony vistas, the crowd of unfriendly strangers, the haughty imposing buildings, and by all the desolate manmade spaces created in this appalling anthropocene age both in peacetime and war. Becoming aware of our essentially mesolithic nature, can we perhaps more specifically address our central need for meaningful environments which support rather than erode our sense of wellbeing? Is this what art might be about?

One can learn quite a lot in a lifetime of eighty years of constant observation of the world, self and others, and through the unceasing acquisition of skills; but at every turn the frontiers of one’s ignorance are starkly evident in every direction

Ach weel… For further information please see my experimental e-novel !Leonardo Mind for Modern Times, available as a free download from Apple Books:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/!leonardo-mind-for-modern/id541725141?mt=11

http://www.donnierossart.com

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/the-scottish-shed/id707709467?mt=11

Geraldine McClure

Geraldine McClure

Originally from Northern Ireland, I came to Scotland to study Medical Physics at Aberdeen University. I then pursued a career in Clinical Science at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Latterly, I studied B&W film photography through Gray’s School of Art short course programme. I went on to study a HND in photography at NESCOL in Aberdeen and then an honours degree in Photography at City of Glasgow College. The medium of photography provides an outlet for creativity, whether through documenting the world around me or through the use of alternative processes and printing techniques. I use both digital and film photography in my work.

The work ‘Graffiti’ presents a stage in an ongoing project inspired by the history, landscape, and community of the Braes of Glenlivet and The Scalan site in particular. This unique place offers much from a creative perspective and there is the fascinating challenge of distilling selected elements into photographic pieces that are reflective of its story. I am interested in aspects of photographic practice that arise from being involved with a community and the associated opportunity for collaborative working practices. The selection of print media is a creative decision determined by the work; for example photographic paper or fabric. This final piece is digitally printed on fabric and was made for the official opening of the North and South Mills by His Majesty King Charles III in September 2023.

The subsequent gallery represents a selection of images made in Arbroath in the summer of 2021 when pandemic restrictions had eased. Over a few day trips to the harbour area I made photographs; enjoying my freedom, documenting different aspects of the harbour and the manual process of using film and my medium format and 35mm cameras.

Website: https://www.rgmphotography.co.uk/

John Paul Raine

John Paul Raine

I’ve been a professional artist since leaving Gray’s in 1985 (age 37). Before that I worked as an illustrator for the oil industry, educational publishing and (many years ago) for Yorkshire Television. I have been a mental health care worker, and a lecturer at Aberdeen College and at Gray’s School of Art (ad hoc). Recently I retired from Roevig Folkehoejskole in Denmark, where I was the senior art teacher for over a decade.

Over the years I have shown my paintings in the Roger Billcliffe Gallery, the Rendezvous, Gallery Heinzel, the Whitehouse Gallery, Eion Stewart Fine Art, the Torrance Gallery and Gallery Q. These days many of my available paintings can be found at the Finzean Farm Shop and at the McEwan Gallery.

www.rainesflowerpaintings.uk

Instagram:  john_paul_raine

Charles M. Smith

Charles M. Smith

I’m a silversmith, I make beakers, teapots, coffee pots, boxes, plates, kilt belt buckles, plaid brooches. I do some enamelling, mostly on copper, and I make clocks using a battery movement, enamelled copper, wood and rivets.

Helen Scaife

Helen Scaife

Helen Scaife is an experienced artist and art teacher focusing mainly on Painting and Drawing.  She recently received a Micro-commission from the Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums and is currently showing there her mixed media piece on global warming and rising sea levels called “Rising Pillars of Aberdeen”.

Over the years she has developed a deep interest or obsession with nature and movement, especially the movement of water.  She uses charcoal, watercolour, acrylic and oil sometimes portraying people in the waves.

She has shown since graduating from Art College in Cardiff in Wales, London, Germany, Devon and most recently here in Scotland through NEOS and the Hyv Pop-Up Shop.

Helen runs classes locally after having 22 years experience teaching focusing on a range of media.  If you are interested in joining her art classes here in Stonehaven please contact her directly.

www.helenscaife.com

 

Stephen Redpath

Stephen Redpath

I live in Tarland and my work explores the relationship between landscape and emotion. I draw much of my inspiration from the wild multi-layered landscapes of northern Scotland, building on direct observation, memories and emotional responses. My watercolour paintings invite the viewer to reflect and explore their own experiences and emotional connection to these precious places.

Website: stephenmredpath.com

IG: smrpaintings

 

Sedem Demir

Sedem Demir

I am Sedem, a mixed media artist and illustrator based in Aberdeen. Though a blank page can be daunting, sketchbooks are a safe space to experiment and put marks on a page. No one but you has to see it, so why fear what marks you do.

Throughout the pandemic and even after, I considered sketch booking a helpful tool for maintaining mental health and wellbeing because it is one of the best ways to practise mindfulness which is proven to reduce anxiety.

Drawing on location is a big part of my practise as I find it as stepping out of my comfort zone whilst carrying out the action of something within my own comfort zone while being in nature and drawing from observation as it can offer more than drawing from photos in a studio room. 

I share my process, materials I use and how I use them on my Patreon, sell prints and zines on my website.

You can follow my creative journey on my Instagram page.

Fiona Michie

Fiona Michie

My passion is drawing, creating storytelling pictures in charcoal and pen and ink.

Inspiration comes from my love of Gothic Romanticism, ghost stories and the supernatural found in film and literature.  I see my drawings as the visual equivalent to my own Victorian Gothic novel.

 

Carla Angus

Carla Angus

Carla has a research-based practice driven by stories of object, place and people, recontextualising heritage through a contemporary visual art lens. Sitting at the intersection of deep mapping, object biography and materiality, her work is thoughtful and conversational, highlighting connections between things that may be otherwise hidden. These links and stories dictate the medium and materials she uses, and new pieces of work often necessitate learning new skills or collaboration with other creatives or relevant experts. Recent work has been inspired by an inherited sealkin waistcoat, a victorian mansion and a cathedral.

Initially a theatre designer, Carla was co-director of an arts retreat for 15 years with her husband Bryan Angus and also has an extensive background in arts development and creative project management.

@carlaeveangus

carla.angus@tiscali.co.uk

 

Michael Autumn

Michael Autumn

+44 7770590511

https://michaelautumn.wordpress.com

https://www.youtube.com/@Michael.Autumn

https://www.fineart.co.uk%2Fdirectory%2Fmichael-autumn_101904.aspx

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MichaelAutumnArt

I’m a self-taught artist. I learn best by doing things (as opposed to just reading about them), trying things out, research, patience. I loved school and really enjoyed most of the subjects, but I especially liked art (did a lot in my own time at home) and technical drawing. However, my art teacher advised me not to go to art school! She said I could teach myself all the art I wanted, and that I should study an academic subject – which I did (philosophy, psychology, and economics). With hindsight, I think she was wise enough to realise that art is a very precarious way to make a living, and, realising I had academic potential, suggested I get an academic university education with better career prospects – and pursue art at my own pace.

Life can lead you in odd directions – like floating in a barrel down a river or stream – and you don’t necessarily end up where you want to go. Sometimes you just have to get out of the drifting barrel, use your compass, and head off in the direction you really want to go. At, and after, university, I accidentally fell into computing, liked it, and found I had an aptitude for it – and so I drifted down that river for many very successful years – in many industries and several countries. But while it was very much appreciated by others – who paid me very well indeed for my work as a programmer, designer, technical architect/consultant – it was meaningless to me…

Despite being a bit of a polymath, I still got/get most pleasure out of creating things and, hopefully, giving others pleasure. I’ve always created things (painting, crafts, photography, videos, poetry) – it’s my nature – but sometimes you have to devote yourself entirely to something in order to really excel in it and achieve ambitious things. So in 2019 I decided to give up a very well paid career in IT to devote myself entirely to art.

Once I went to a Royal College of Art open day, with a view to applying for a full-time post graduate course in art, but I got quite a rude awakening/realisation. It was very apparent that it was not for me: it was clear they wanted mouldable minds (which I am not!), were mostly interested in “newness” or “originality” – almost to the exclusion of quality and aesthetics. Well, I am all about quality and aesthetics – as was the vast majority of art up until around about the 20th century – and I make absolutely no apology for that.

My love for Nature informs most of my art. I am also very interested in philosophy and psychology – and this comes through in my art also. I don’t want to be one of those art college graduates whose art is only shown in galleries (because normal people don’t want it in their homes), and is passed by in seconds with people whispering under their breath “WTF is that?!”… I want to make art that at the very least is visually appealing, uplifting, and thought-provoking…

There’s always more than meets the eye in my artwork. I can’t, and don’t want to, recreate what someone has already done – or in a style or medium that has already been done. So you won’t find me doing “normal”: normal landscapes, normal portraits, normal still lifes – or normal whatever. I have to justify to myself why I am doing a piece of art – and why it is new or worthy…

Kathleen Cowie

Kathleen Cowie

Artist’s Biography

Kathleen Cowie is a visual artist from the northeast of Scotland, UK and is currently based in Aberdeen.

Kathleen studied at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon’s Institute of Technology [now Robert Gordon’s University] in Aberdeen from 1983-1987, graduating with a BA[Hons] in Fine Art, Drawing and painting. She also has an interest in printmaking and won the student printmaking prize in her third year at Gray’s. Kathleen then completed the Post Graduate Certificate in Education and became a teacher of Art and Design in Scottish schools for twenty-eight years, eighteen of those years as a Head of Art, and SQA marker for Art and Design.

Kathleen now focuses on developing her art, and tutors her own adult art group and specialist workshops for groups, communities, and clubs.

Kathleen has shown work with the Aberdeen Artists society, The Hospitals Trust,  Peacock Printmakers Aberdeen, and the Meffan annual show in Forfar. Her figurative art has been featured in the international Artist and Illustrators Magazine and she has work in private collections.

 

Artist’s Statement

Kathleen Cowie works across several art specialisms. She draws and paints from direct observation, sometimes developing the imagery into further paintings, mixed media pieces and original prints. Kathleen also designs and makes kiln-fired enamel jewellery and small products which are abstract in colour, shapes and texture and are often functional. She is also a regular ‘urban sketcher’.

Kathleen’s inspiration is wide reaching but includes an enduring interest in figurative art and portraiture, aiming to capture likeness, posture tension and character, an authentic human presence.

The observation of both random and symbolic still life objects and artifacts is also a theme. As are coastal and urban features of the north-east of Scotland. As a wild swimmer and scuba diver the marine environment fascinates and Kathleen’s paintings and prints in this area quietly highlight the beauty and importance of sea life and the need for its’ protection.

Drawing underpins all of Kathleen’s art and she aims to produce work that has simplicity and directness, but also refinement.

Jennifer Summers

Jennifer Summers

jenniferannsummers.com

Instagram: @jenniferannsummers

Facebook: jennifersummersart

Jennifer is a self-taught artist currently based in Scotland. She has been actively practicing and exhibiting her art for the last ten years. The majority of her artwork is inspired from both her childhood home of New Zealand and from the United Kingdom landscape. Landscape and map scenes form the majority of her artwork.

Her drawings may appear to have two subject matters depending on the perspective of the observer. Casting your eye over a whole drawing, an image will emerge, slightly disjointed, and reminiscent of a never-ending maze in which no-one gets to the impenetrable finish line. Observing the drawings up close, the second subject matter rises revealing the suburban housing that constitutes each of the segments. These maps reflect suburbia with its endless streets and repetitive structure.

Anne keith

Anne keith

I am a digital artist working from my own studio in Aberdeenshire.

Since as long as I can remember I have always drawn and painted mainly in water colour but also creating monotype screenprints using procion dyes.

In 2004 I started up my own company Illustrate. And for the last 20 years I have worked alongside a geologist creating geological diagrams using the vector drawing software Adobe Illustrator. Parallel to this I decided to redraw some of my original artwork using Illustrator. I found I could achieve a distinct contemporary edge.

I always thought that art would be my chosen career path. However, my career took an IT route and I became Computer Support Manager at the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service for Aberdeen, Orkney and Shetland.

Little did I know then that it would be technology and my computing knowledge and skills that would eventually bring me back to art and drawing that I loved.

Landscape and skies mesmerise me
Colour is of the utmost importance in my work. I spend a considerable time mixing colour. To me colour conveys the mood and emotion of a painting – to me it is the soul of a painting.
Observing the Scottish landscape – it is often colour that compels me to reproduce the image and capture the atmosphere of that moment in time.

It has been said that digital art and digital painting is the medium of the future.

In many online forums digital art and painting runs parallel to using canvas, brush and paint. In the words of another digital artist “Nothing will replace the flow of water and pigment across a canvas or the texture of oil paint after it dries. It takes time to learn the tricks in order to be a successful artist. Just as much as it takes time to be proficient in digital painting”.
One of Britain’s most influential artists, David Hockney believes the latest generation of software is so “fantastic” that he can not only reproduce the look of traditional painting but can also get more subtle effects than with old techniques.

Tadeusz Deręgowski

Tadeusz Deręgowski

 

Brief Bio

I grew up in Aberdeen and studied Fine Art at Edinburgh University and College of Art in the 80s. I have returned this year to live in Aberdeen.

I`ve been painting these small, plein air paintings over the last fifteen years or so (they can be referred to as pochades) showing them fairly regularly, most recently at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil.

I like to travel and paint- the pictures engage with a diversity of locations, among them, North Africa, New York, Latin America and Scotland. The next big trip will, most likely, be to India.

Cel- O750 816 5898

Tadeusz598@yahoo.co.uk

Website-

https://tadeuszderegowski.blogspot.com/?m=0

Instagram-

https://www.instagram.com/tadeusz_deregowski?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

 

Jenny Ross

Jenny Ross

Jenny Ross is a Scottish-Canadian artist living and working in Aberdeen, Scotland. She originally qualified in veterinary medicine and changed her career to a visual artist, working in this field for several years before studying painting at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. She uses a wide variety of media in her drawings, paintings and three-dimensional works and is especially interested in the interactions between media and their unplanned and exciting results. Her inspirations include the Scottish landscape and farmland where she lives, folklore and spiritual practices. Her work has been exhibited in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London and has won several awards.

Artist Statement:

Through painting and drawing I aim to map real and imagined spaces, drawn from my own experiences, dreams and written work. My work explores spiritual practices and rituals, pulling on both local and global contexts. I explore witchcraft in relation to landscape and the natural environment and sometimes the work has a tangible presence of animals and figures. My inspirations come from a wide range of sources including books, found images and the immediate landscape surrounding my home in North-East Scotland.

Walking with my thoughts is an important part of my process. My images are rarely planned beforehand as I prefer to react to the media and colours during the creation process. Mixing media excites me and I love this unpredictable and dynamic process. I have been making my own paint from found, natural pigments such as ash from fire, mushrooms and earth, this process being a ritual within the practice of making.

Joyce Taylor

Joyce Taylor

http://www.joycetaylorart.co.uk

Born and raised in Aberdeenshire, Joyce Taylor studied drawing and painting at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen where she was one of three students in her year who were awarded the Patrick Allan Fraser Hospitalfield Scholarship. It was during that summer she was drawn to the villages and harbours of the Angus coast. Coastal villages, boats and seascapes are still an inspiration for her work, especially her local villages of Pennan, Crovie and Gardenstown.

When driving conditions are poor, preventing her from getting to the coast, Joyce works in her rural studio on still life painting or works from sketches previously completed outdoors.

After several years teaching art and design in secondary schools, where she was a Faculty Head of Art Design and Technology, Joyce decided to take early retirement so she could concentrate on her own creativity, and she has recently returned to painting full time.

Joyce has had the privilege of exhibiting her work in solo exhibitions in the UK, France and Canada.

Her paintings can be found in corporate collections in Scotland and France and in private collections in UK, France, Qatar, Jamaica, Germany, Norway and Canada.

 

Kymme Fraser

Kymme Fraser

https://www.instagram.com/kymmefraserart/

https://www.facebook.com/kymmefraserart 

I was born in Edinburgh, studied in Aberdeen and worked in Glasgow before returning to Aberdeen in the early 1990’s to work and raise a family. My early love of art and painting was rekindled here and after many courses, workshops and exhibitions, I have now given up full-time employment in order to concentrate on an art career.

I paint the Scottish land and seascapes in a modern, semi-abstract style in acrylic and acrylic inks. Paint is layered using brush and palette knife to create depth, interest and a sense of the beautiful coasts and countryside both here in the North East and more widely across Scotland.

I exhibit and sell work at galleries in the North East of Scotland including Larks Gallery, Ballater and Country Frames Gallery, Insch. I participate each year in the North East Open Studios event, either from my own home studio or in other various venues in Aberdeen. I am the Vice President of the Stonehaven Art Group and have exhibited at the annual exhibition in Stonehaven for a number of years, winning various awards. I am also a member of the Aberdeen Artists Society and participant in the Pittenweem Arts Festival.

 

 

Gerard Stott

Gerard Stott

Gerard Stott:   The Artist at Garage 10.

WEBSITE:       https://garage10.work

A Short Film by the Granite Town Film Project, about me; The Artist at Garage 10:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eiVvIc-c6k

As the Artist at Garage 10, I paint both still life and explored subjects.  My compositions are free to evolve during execution and so can take weeks to materialise to a point at which I’m ready to start painting, and they generally continue to evolve over the weeks that it takes me to complete the brush work.

Re-sketching my composed genre subjects over and over in pencil, allows my initial ideas to evolve, and some priorities to change, sometimes beyond all recognition of their origin. Through this process, I discover what it is that I want to paint. I believe that allowing this spontaneity reveals interesting insights into both myself, and what I thought I was painting.  The discovery process reinforces my enjoyment of making a painting. I think this also helps me strive towards better work.

Where there is narrative in my pictures, it’s intended to be obvious. I don’t want to have to explain my paintings, and in a sense, I think that explaining them would be undermining the objective of creating them, so at the end of the day my paintings typically will have to speak for themselves.

I have a need to paint, which I really value, but I’m also grateful that I have enough talent to produce paintings that I feel are valid, and so far it seems that every painting has provided a new learning experience.

Cath Roberts

Cath Roberts

Hello! I work quite intuitively with a painters eye, balance and form with colour and line are key in the process. When there is effortless enjoyment in the making then the stop knows when to happen. Generally working with the palette knife and heavy body acrylics relating to my surroundings – often landscape, keeping the eye connected and lively feeds into the creativity and lightness of approach.

Shelagh Brown

Shelagh Brown

I am a multi-media artist based in Aberdeen, Scotland. I am a graduate of Grays School of Art (BA Contemporary Art Practice 2016) and I have exhibited work in my home city of Aberdeen, around the North East of Scotland, in Edinburgh, and in Vienna. My practice combines painting, hand-painted archival collage papers, printmaking and monoprint techniques, and drawing materials. I work in layers and  the mainly abstract images and meanings that emerge are also autobiographical, bringing forward deeper meanings and emotions from my life and psyche.

https://www.youtube.com/@shelaghbrown4433

https://www.instagram.com/shelaghbrownart/