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RSW Scottish Arts Club Award
Absolutely delighted to have been awarded the RSW Scottish Arts Club Award for my painting ‘Across the Water’ at this year’s RSW Open Exhibition. The exhibition runs from 13th January – 6th February 2024 at the RSA Buildings on the Mound in Edinburgh. There are some...
Brushes and Momigami – an individual approach to the landscape
Seated Talk at Birch Tree Gallery, Dundas Street on Saturday 14th October at 10.00 am. Please register on Eventbrite. If your circumstances change and you unable to attend we kindly ask to cancel or notify the gallery. As an artist I am always searching for ways to...
Exhibiting at the Birch Tree Gallery
I’m delighted to have my expressive landscape paintings, momigami textiles and artist books on exhibit at the Birch Tree Gallery in Dundas Street, Edinburgh from 3rd October until 4th November 2023. The colours of my paintings compliment those of Janie Ramsay’s...
The 140th Annual Members Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
This exhibition was originally planned to open in January at Kirkcudbright Art Gallery but due to lockdown is now showing digitally on the RSW website. My painting ‘All That Remains’ (pictured) was inspired by the horrendous bushfires in NSW in January 2020. We were...
Re-connections
Re-connections is an exhibition of Artists’ books at the Upright Gallery, Edinburgh November - December 2020 I was very pleased to have 5 of my artist books selected in this open exhibition. The theme of the exhibition was the way in which artists stayed connected...
Membership of the RSW
I am really delighted to have been elected as a member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) at their Annual General Assembly in Glasgow in October. Whilst I have exhibited regularly at their Annual Open Exhibitions at the RSA in Edinburgh and...
RSW 138th Open Annual Exhibition 2018
26th November – 13th December. I am delighted that once again one of my works has been selected for the RSW Annual Open exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. This one is called Forth Memory and is a large painting in acrylic with Chine...
Our Fringe exhibition: Paperwork 5
I am excited to be exhibiting in EdFringe for a 5th time with Marion and Trevor.This is a quote from one of last year's reviews: Here are “three mature artists examining with calm, unhurried concentration the subtle interplay of form, void, tone, line, pattern, and...
Making Hand Made Artists’ Brushes
As part of our series of occasional workshops in bookmaking skills and other applied arts, Barbara Rowell and I will be conducting a day long class in making Artists' Brushes, exploring the unexpected marks they make and then binding the results into an artists' book....
Bookmaking Course in November in East Lothian
There are just few more places left on this course: Introduction to Artists’ Bookmaking Workshop Sunday 26 November 2017 10.00 am – 4.30 pm Kiln and Cutter Unit 6, Fenton Barns Retail Village Drem, Nr North Berwick EH39 5BW This one day course will introduce a...
Hand Made Brush Demonstration
I will be demonstrating my funky hand made brushes at my exhibition 'A Fine Line' at the Dundas Street Gallery on Sunday 22 October at 3.00 pm and Saturday 28 October at 12.00. Each brush is made from found or recycled materials and has its own story to...
Bookmaking Workshop
This one day bookmaking workshop will introduce a range of simple but effective printmaking techniques that can be done without the use of a press. Experiment using mark making techniques on inked Perspex and Gelli Plates and applying organic and found materials onto...
A Fine Line: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Ruth Thomas and Mary Mackay
Paperwork 4 Exhibition, August 2017
Our Annual Paperwork Exhibition opens this Thursday 17 August at 6.30 and runs until the 28th. Once again Marion Barron, Trevor Davies and I will be exhibiting works on paper at Fringe Venue 208, 2 Howe Street, Edinburgh. I will be showcasing a range of drawings...
Handmade brushes at Porty Art Walk
Lines of Enquiry. Mesh Artists Collective, Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr. 1 July – 4 August 2017. meshartistscollective.wordpress.com www.themaclaurin.org.uk
Artists’ Book Fair, Fruitmarket
I went to the Artists' Book Fair at the Fruitmarket gallery a few weeks ago and bought a little 'boiled book' by the artist, Kerry Douglas. I thought it was very beautiful and I wanted to experiment with the process. She had given me a few instructions on what to do...
Turcan Connell Prize at RSW
Feeling happy. I have just won the Turcan Connell prize at the The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) for one of my books.
Pop Up Studio and Mokuhanga Prints
Pop up studio at my home in Kalaru, New South Wales and the resulting mokuhanga prints for a homemade sketch book exploring the techniques.