2024 Group
February – April
July – September
November – December
All of these artists are returning to Selkirk’s Burnside gallery with fresh ideas and interesting voices.
This group exhibition draws together landscape, abstract and figures. The artists express themselves in oil, watercolour, acrylic, ink, collage and woodcuts; all with the knowledge of what to leave out and when the work is finished. With an eye for rhythm, recurring elements and their own way of telling a story.
The work, together, helps explain the differences and similarities of these artists; but one thing holds all of these artists together. They are all thinking deeply about their subject – they have the depth and experience to express it clearly.
Artists featured:
John Berry
Kate Hajducka
James Hutcheson
Val Menon
Sylvia Quinn Home
Carol Ritchie
Emma Whigham
A rolling exhibition where sold paintings will be replaced by new work.
Burnside gallery, Selkirk
After these things
John Berry Collage
I work in a variety of mediums, collage being one of them.
It has been a consistent and important aspect of my practice, offering a valid way of making a visual statement, having its own language and lexicon. Being technology free and honouring the hand made is integral to my process. Cut papers, discarded and overlooked fragments, assortments of textures and colours no one gives a second thought to, collage has its own limitations, restrictions and parameters.
Art making, when we fully participate, allows us to flourish, it is life affirming and has the ability to make us feel good. A positive human endeavor.
I have been concerned and involved with art making for nearly forty years. First of all as an illustrator, which included working on some animation projects, a little teaching and for the last twenty years, I’ve had a studio practice in Selkirk, Scottish Borders.
All copyright of works of art remains with the artist
Val Menon
Oils and watercolours
Val Menon is an artist based in Edinburgh and having a studio there. She has exhibited widely in both Scotland and England. Her work is held in private collections including the former Liverpool Polytechnic and the Eastern General Hospital Collections.
Val has a BA in Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic Nottingham and was taught by the painters Peter Cartwright, David Willetts and the late David Measures. She in her turn, paints and teaches.
I aim to show an unpremeditated approach and explore the character though observing form and structure.
During my painting visits I am aiming to create a strong visual memory. I try to spend time in a place looking closely and observing. Sitting, looking and preparing leads to mixing and mark making through a tentative process of layering and recording. Sketching becomes painting. My paintings become almost abstract. I enjoy the movement and play of light and colour hoping I can take some control.
A detail of Blue Haze.Scarba. Slate Islands. Isle of Luing
All copyright of works of art remains with the artist
James Hutcheson
Collage and ink
From Alloway in Ayrshire, he trained at Carlisle and Leeds, where his personal tutor was the artist Derek Hyatt.
His work usually makes reference to his day job and literary sources, in particular Myths and Misunderstandings (Welland Cooper) and The Rapscallions of Reason (Meriou Franzeil). He has had a solo exhibition in Burnside gallery in 2023 and has exhibited in Edinburgh, and Rozelle House museum and galleries in Ayrshire.
A practising graphic designer and illustrator for many years, with a variety of projects including those for exhibition, publishing and the music industry.
He has lectured in design at Leeds Becket University (formerly Leeds Polytechnic), ECA, Napier University and Dundee College of Art & Design. He was creative director at Birlinn Books and before that, was art director at Canongate Books. He continues to work for a variety of publishers throughout the UK.
All copyright of works of art remains with the artist
Sylvia Quinn Home
Wood cuts, lino cuts, dry points
Sylvia Quinn Home is an artist based in the Borders and brought up in North Wales. She has facilitated and taught in workshops and shown in many galleries in the Borders.
I’m aware that I like my work to have meaning but I don’t start with too many ideas about where it’s going, as I like it to develop and open out naturally. Trust is needed and its great when a finished work tells me something that I may have known innately but until then hadn’t recognised.
Education
Leith School of Art Printmaking Course
2015-2017 Awarded the Stern Prize for printing.
1975-1977 London College of Furniture Higher Diploma Interior Design 2 Years
‘Psychopolis’ Frei Académie Den Haag Netherlands 1 Year in Dance and Photography
Bournemouth College Art Pre-Dip and Diploma in Environmental and Exhibition Design
All copyright of works of art remains with the artist
Detail of Old Farm cottages, Bassendean Hill
Two of Two
Emma Whigham
Monotypes, collage
Emma Whigham is a multi-disciplinary artist, experimenting with materials to explore recurring themes in an abstract way.
She deconstructs and reassembles materials, creating work that embodies the dynamic interplay between spontaneity and intent. Exploring composition using the addition or subtraction of shapes, spaces and textures, she aims to introduce order, pulling the parts together to create cohesion within each piece.
Printmaking’s rich potential for investigating these themes has recently occupied her work which, at its heart, employs a tactile approach with which she seeks to understand the materials she uses and their capabilities.
Her practice also involves art facilitation; working with organisations to deliver art workshops with mental health and wellbeing at their core. She has a Studio in Selkirk where she lives.
Education
1997 - 1998
1992 - 1996
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Edinburgh Collage of Art, BA (Hons)
Jewellery & Silversmithing.
All copyright of works of art remains with the artist
Detail of Blackthorn Sun
Kate Hajducka
Oils, oil and beeswax, stone lithographs
Kate Hajducka is an artist based in Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. She has exhibited widely in Edinburgh and Fife.
She grew up on the edge of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, where the city gives way to the countryside, and where the beech woods flourish.
She says her training as a nurse and later an art therapist established for her the value and importance of the creative and artistic life to all forms of wellbeing.
Education
Illustration at Brighton School of Art
Art Therapy,Queen Margaret’s Edinburgh
Painting at Leith School of Art
Also short courses in : botanical illustration at RBGE
Printmaking at Edinburgh Printmakers
All copyright of works of art remains with the artist
Burnside gallery & frames
48 Market Place
Selkirk TD7 4BL
Scottish Borders
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Wednesday to Saturday 10-1, 2-4.30
01750 491 348
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