This Spring, The Scottish Gallery will throw open the windows and let nature in; filling the gallery with pieces that celebrate the wildness, spontaneity, and abundance of nature. With diverse artworks inspired by the Scottish landscape, flora and fauna, a visit to the gallery will enthuse visitors to appreciate the gifts of the natural world around them.
Rambunctious floral still life works will adorn the walls of the Main Gallery for Angie Lewin’s Wild Garden. Inspired by both the clifftops and saltmarshes of the North Norfolk coast and the Scottish Highlands, Lewin depicts these contrasting environments and their native flora in wood engraving, linocut, silkscreen, lithograph and collage. Born in Cheshire, Lewin studied Fine Art Printmaking at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design and printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. After working in London as an illustrator she studied Horticulture and then subsequently moved to Norfolk, which prompted a return to printmaking. Angie now mainly lives and works in Scotland, her still lifes often incorporate seedpods, grasses, flints and dried seaweed collected on walking and sketching trips.
Rebecca Collins’ Loch Hourn and the Sound of Sleat will also be on display. Collins’ oil paintings are inspired by the ever-changing conditions of light and weather which she experiences on a daily basis living in the northwest Highlands. She often finds her subject in the varied and dramatic landscape around her home.
Traditional basketmaker and fine artist Joe Hogan presents At Home in the Wild this April. Regarded as one of Ireland’s master craftsmen and has gained a worldwide reputation for his work being shortlisted for the LOEWE Craft Prize 2018. He has worked from his studio in Loch na Fooey in West Ireland since 1978. Hogan grows his own willow and harvests other naturally occurring materials such as wood, bark, larch, birch, bog myrtle, willow and catkins, which he incorporates in his work.
Katie Watson is an award-winning silversmith and a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, where she studied Jewellery & Silversmithing from 2014-2018. She will present Nature in Detail, inspired by her hometown of North Berwick and The Isle of Arran. Using chasing and repoussé, Watson creates wonderlands of nature in unique pieces of jewellery and silverware. She has won several prestigious awards for her designs, including Gold and Bronze awards from the Goldsmiths Craft and Design Council and The Silver Society Prize for Silversmithing ‘Best Newcomer’ award. Watson is currently resident at Marchmont Silversmithing Studios in Berwickshire.
The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ
Thursday 30th March – Saturday 29th April 2023
Photocall/Press view: Thursday 30th March, 10am
