Annual Hebridean Exhibition: Looking North

Apothecary Gallery, 33 Greyhound Road, Hammersmith, London
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Apothecary Gallery, 33 Greyhound Road, Hammersmith, London

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Annual Hebridean Exhibition

Looking North

Sîan Armstrong, Judith MacLachlan & Pauline Prior-Pitt

Exhibition runs:
Tuesday 8th April - Saturday 10th May 2014

Opening Event:
Tuesday 8th April 6-9pm
please contact the gallery for viewing times after the Opening Event


Pauline Prior-Pitt will be reading from her lastest poetry collection ‘Elsewhere’ at 8pm on Tuesday 8th April. Delicious Loch Duart Smoked Salmon with Macleans Hebridean Oatcakes will be served during the Opening Event and donations to The Bumblebee Conservation Trust are welcomed


About the Artists:

Sîan Armstrong:
Sîan Armstrong lives and works on the Isle of Skye, which is a mountainous and beautiful island. 'Trees in this part of the world have a hard time of it due to the climate, especially the constant onslaught of the wind and the frequent storms. As a result, over time they often develop interesting and marvellous forms and shapes which appeal to my imagination.
Trees have always been important to the human race and everyone relates to them in their own way. Over the last few years I have been exploring possibilities in the forms of trees  - both real and imaginary ones - as they are infinitely variable; each one is unique and each one seems to have has its own personality.'
 
Sîan resumed art about fifteen years ago after doing other things such as farming and environmental psychology. Her trees are drawn mostly in pen and ink on Aquarelle paper with limited use of watercolour and gouache.  Being interested in form, detail and pattern, her trees are often mistaken as woodcuts, but they are all hand drawn.

Recent Exhibitions (Solo and Shared):
Plockton Hall Annually 2001 - 2014
Skye and Lochalsh Studio Trails Annually 2003 - 2010
Highland Open Studios 2006 - 2007 
Byre Theatre, St Andrews August/Sept 2004
Aig An Oir (At the Edge) Oakwoods Project and Publication 2004 
An Tuireann Art Centre, Portree, Skye 2004                


Judith MacLachlan:
'Painting is like going on a journey without a map. I have to rely on my experience and intuition.'

Judith MacLachlan studied illustration and graphic design at Hull College of Art before moving to London.
In 1966 she and her husband Donald left London and came to live on Skye where they rebuilt an old house and brought up their family. She continued working as printmaker and painter and in 2000 opened Three Camuslusta Gallery, where she exhibited her own work and that of other contemporary artists.
She now lives and works from her studio on the family croft at Camuslusta on the shores of Loch Bay.

Recent Exhibitions include:
2013 Four plus Plockon Gallery
2012 Inchmore Gallery
2010 Perth Theatre
2008 Inside Out and Outside In, Judith MacLachlan & Kyra Clegg, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
2008 Inside Out and Outside In, Judith MacLachlan and Kyra Clegg, Timespan, Helmsdale
2007 Sealladh 3, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye
2005 One Island Two Views, Judith MacLachlan and Julie McWhirter, The Watermill, Aberfeldy
2004 Christmas Exhibition, Castle Gallery, Inverness
2004 Sea Liminal, Three Camuslusta Gallery, Isle of Skye
2004 10th Anniversary Exhibition Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2004 Local Landscape, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye
2003 Living Landscape, West Cork Arts Centre, An Tuireann, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery.
2002 Hugh Millar Prints, art tm, Inverness.
2002 Artist Prints, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye.
2002 Art for Europe, Scotland House Offices, Brussels
2001 Imprint 01, art.tm Inverness.
2001 Marks, An Tuireann, Portree, Isle of Skye.
2000 Glasgow Print Studio, Scottish Smalls Exhibition


Pauline Prior-Pitt:
Pauline’s paintings are a personal and emotional response to the beaches and shores close to where she lives on the Island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. They are ever changing, in a landscape which is always the same, but never the same; a landscape of changing light, wind and water and stone.

Using a limited palette of acrylics and some pastels she captures the huge sweeps of long deserted beaches, in their different moods; reflecting her own mood at the time. Views from her 'studio shed' at the bottom of the garden are also an inspiration.

Her recent paintings have ventured into the abstract; painting the same three elements of shore, sea and sky in different proportions, depending on her viewpoint and the state of the tide.
Pauline studied drawing and painting for three years at Lews Castle College, an island outpost of the University of the Highlands and Islands.

She exhibits her work at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, at The Sollas Gallery during July/August and in her 'studio shed' in Grenitote, by appointment, during the rest of the year. Her paintings are in private collections all over the British Isles.

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