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HELEN TABOR
OIL
Helen has lived in the Scottish Borders for the past twenty years with her partner and three children. Her paintings are very much inspired by her surroundings, in particular the rur...
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ANNA KNIGHTS
BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS
Anna lives in the village of Shamley Green in Surrey and grew up in rural West Sussex, surrounded by the lush beauty of the English countryside. Nature inspires her art and her pain...
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FLORA BLACKETT
SPORTING ART / PORTRAITS
Flora trained as a portrait painter at the prestigious Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy. During four years of training she was awarded a scholarship and two private sponsorship...
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FIONA STRICKLAND
BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS
Fiona studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art before spending the next 26 years teaching art and design at Scottish secondary schools. She gave up teaching a few years ag...
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CAROLINE HEPBURNE-SCOTT
DRAWING / LANDSCAPE
Caroline lives in Edinburgh and has a studio in the Scottish Borders. She says of her work, 'The natural world has always been the inspiration driving my paintings. While studying at Edin...
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LANA OKIRO
OIL / STILL LIFE
Lana is one of the most exciting still life artists currently working in the UK. Her distinctive artistic style has developed over the years and shows the influences of Paul Cézann...
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CLAUDIA MASSIE
LANDSCAPE
Claudia grew up in the Borders and is currently living in Perthshire. Her recent work is focused on aspects of the rural landscape and she was shortlisted for the 2009 Jolomo Scottish Lan...
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ANN FRASER
BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS
Ann is one of the UK's most respected painters of botanical art and she has exhibited widely since her first solo show in London in 1991, including at the Royal Horticultural Society. Her...
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CLAUDIA PETRETTI
WATERCOLOUR / PASTEL
Claudia has a first class degree from Edinburgh College of Art and teaches drawing and painting part-time.
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ANDRIY YALANSKYI
OIL
Born in Kiev in 1959, Andriy Yalanskyi is known as the youngest recipient of the "Honoured Artists Of Ukraine" title (1998). This remarkably versatile painter graduated from State Art Lyc...
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SUSIE LEE
LANDSCAPE / OIL
Susie turned to painting full-time ten years ago having previously worked as an art director for film and television. She has degrees in Art and Design from Dartington College of Arts and...
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FRANCES BELL
LANDSCAPE / PORTRAITS
Frances was trained in the Classical tradition in Florence at Charles Cecil Studios from 2001 to 2004. She has since been invited back to the same school to teach for the summer term ...
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CAMILLA WATSON
OIL
Camilla graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Drawing and Painting from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2004. She studied for two years at the Leith School of Art and gained a 'Distincti...
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LIZZIE MCCORQUODALE
SEASCAPES
Lizzie spent her childhood in East Lothian and the Scottish Borders. After obtaining a degree in Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art in 1986 she spent 18 years in the Sou...
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JENNY MASON
LANDSCAPE
Jenny was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and now lives in Edinburgh. Her paintings have been exhibited in many galleries around Scotland including Flaubert in Edinburgh, the Paisley Mu...
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KERRIE MCGIBBON
OIL / LANDSCAPES
Kerrie studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art. She now divides her time between painting and teaching art to children and adults.
Kerrie takes her inspirati...
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LETTIE BLACKETT
LANDSCAPE / OIL
Lettie grew up on the Solway Coast and cites the surrounding area as her primary inspiration. When not painting and drawing she can be found walking her dogs on the beautiful beaches...
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SIMON BLACKWOOD
PAINTING / RESTORATION
Simon Blackwood is a painter and picture restorer living in the Scottish Borders. He has exhibited widely throughout the UK and Europe.
‘My paintings are evocations of li...
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CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON
OIL
Christopher Johnson has exhibited with leading galleries in the United Kingdom and abroad since gaining his Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1986. Born in 1961, the son of a farmer in Zimbab...
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DELPHINE DE CASTELLANE
OIL / WATERCOLOUR
Delphine is French and a descendant of the Toulouse-Lautrec family. After studying painting at l'ecole de la Cambre, Bruxelles, Delphine painted in Provence before moving to...
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ARTHUR BLAIR
OIL / MIXED MEDIA
Arthur began a career in art while living on California's West Coast in 1991. Over several years he undertook art courses at various colleges with his formal study culminating in a t...
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AMY BERNAYS
SEASCAPES
British-born artist Amy Bernays lives and works in Los Angeles, California. A graduate from Central St Martins in 2001, her work is a mix of paintings, prints and drawings with influences...
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HEATHER RAEBURN
BOTANICAL PRINTS
Heather Raeburn is a botanical artist living and working in Edinburgh. Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art she has worked successfully in illustrative design and portraiture. I...
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JULIA TROTTER
OIL
Julia creates colourful interior and lanscape scenes, often drawing on her immediate surroundings for inspiration. She counts Bonnard, Renoir and Susan Ryder among her influences and has ...
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ANDREW WHITE
LANDSCAPE / FIGURATIVE
Since graduating from the Slade School of Art in 1991 Andrew has exhibited work throughout Britain to great critical aclaim. Whether drawing, sculpting, painting or ...
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DOROTHY LAWRENSON
OIL / WORKS ON PAPER
Dorothy studied Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 2004. Since then she has exhibited throughout the UK and was the youngest artist to tak...
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KATE DONOHOE
OIL / PORTRAITS
Kate was born in 1974 and spent her early years in Ayrshire, most of them in Troon. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1996 with a BA (Hons) in Art and Design and worked fo...
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LUCY PARSONS
LANDSCAPE / SCULPTURE
Lucy moved to Scotland in 1979 to learn poetry and sculpture from Chris Hall and went on to study at Edinburgh College of Art and Leith School of Art. She now lives in Edinburgh but regul...
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GAEL SELLWOOD
BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS
Gael has been working as a botanical artist for the last fifteen years. After a busy career ranging from working for the NHS to designing wedding dresses and running a successful consulta...
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PHYLLIDA MEACHAM
SPORTING ART / BRONZES
Born in 1938 on a coffee farm in Kenya, Phyllida Meacham came to Britain in1952 to finish her education and spent four years at Chelsea School of Art obtaining a National Diploma in Desig...
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ROB HAIN
ACRYLIC / PRINTS
Since he began painting professionally in 1980 Rob Hain has been quietly building up a reputation as one of Scotland's most unusual and talented artists.
Born in Dorset and educat...
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DAVID HAY
LANDSCAPE
David lives and paints in the Borders village of Yetholm and is a prolific and successful landscape painter. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1970 having studied under an arr...
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ANNA KING
OIL & PENCIL
Anna lives just outside Duns in the Scottish Borders and has a studio on the Marchmont estate. She takes as her subject matter areas that most other artists would pass by - abandoned and ...
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MICHAEL EWART
OIL
Michael grew up in the village of Felton in Northumberland and has spent much of his life immersed in the Northumbria countryside. Michael has been painting since he was a small boy and t...
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MARY ANN ROGERS
WILDLIFE / WATERCOLOUR
Mary Ann lives and paints across the border in her native Northumberland and is fast gaining a reputation as one of the most exciting wildlife artists currently working. Mary Ann creates ...
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JOHN NELSON
LANDSCAPE / SEASCAPE
John is a highly experienced and popular artist living in the Borders near Selkirk. Born in Edinburgh, John studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1962 - 1967 where he was awarded a num...
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KATE BROOKS
SPORTING / WILDLIFE
Kate grew up on a farm in Leicestershire and began drawing at a young age, making use of the family menagerie of animals as her models. She painted her first animal portraits for family a...
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ZANNA WILSON
INK
Zanna has spent her adult life living and working in Scotland and is now settled in rural Perthshire with her husband and two young daughters. Although perhaps more widely known for her l...
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CAT OUTRAM
ETCHINGS
Cat is a successful printmaker based in Edinburgh and one of the featured artists in the 2011 Festival exhibition, Four Artists, One City. Here she discusses the inspiration behi...
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ANNABEL ILLINGWORTH
PHOTOGRAPHY
Annabel is based in Edinburgh and trained at the London School of Journalism and St Luc Ecole des Beaux Art in Liège, Belgium. She is one of the featured artists in the 2011 Festiv...
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KATE PHILP
LANDSCAPE
Kate's lively landscapes and seascapes are always in great demand and she has exhibited widely since taking up painting full time in 1997. Born in Africa and brought up in Scotland, Kate ...
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WILLIAM FOYLE
OIL PAINTING / LANDSCAPES
'William Foyle is fascinating and his future wants watching'.
Sir Timothy Clifford, former director of the National Galleries of Scotland
One of th...
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OLIVER REED
OIL
We are delighted to be showing part of Oliver's N:055˚ W:002˚series which was inspired by his frequent wanderings through Duns Castle estate, the venue for our annual Borders Art...
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SUSAN MITCHELL
WILDLIFE / WATERCOLOUR
Susan is based in Peebles and has been a full-time artist since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1991. Drawing inspiration from her farming background Susan paints wonderfully ...
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ANGELA HUNTER
SCULPTURE
Angela was born in Galashiels and is currently living in Innerleithen with her husband and fellow sculptor Brunton. Angela graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1999 with a B.A. in S...
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MARCUS HODGE
PORTRAITS / LANDSCAPE
Marcus is a highly successful portrait painter and landscape artist. His painterly style owes much to a rigorous five years of training in the old master techniques at the Escuela Libre D...
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FIONA MILLAR
ACRYLIC / STILL LIFE
Fiona lives and works in the Borders and is based at the WASPS Studios in Selkirk. With two sisters attending art college and an art dealer father Fiona has a strong background in art and...
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20TH CENTURY WORKS OF ART
VARIOUS
We hold a small stock of interesting and eclectic Works of Art from the 20th century. Please check back regularly to see our latest acquisitions. We have a number of etchings that do...
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