About Us

Dancing Light Gallery is an exciting rural art gallery with changing exhibitions throughout the year where you can find landscape, wildlife and figurative paintings as well as hand-made original prints and photographs.

We also exhibit beautiful sculpture, glass, wood and ceramics and we have a selection of hand-made jewellery on show in silver, gold and other media. Our textile work ranges from scarves to handbags, using some of our finest Scottish wools and fabrics.

All of the work on show is truly unique.

We're at Whitmuir The Organic Place, where you will also find a restaurant and food hall in a contemporary low-energy building powered by renewable energy. Whitmuir is less than 45 minutes from Edinburgh and 25 minutes from Peebles.


Opening Hours:
Mon-Fri 1100-1700
Sat 1100-1700
Sun 1100-1700

Phone: 01968 660200

 

Lighthearted
12 May - 21 June 2012

Join us at the private view of our new exhibition Lighthearted and enjoy a glass of wine while you browse around the gallery.

The title of the exhibition takes its name from Edward Bowen’s whimsical paintings which are great fun and are sure to bring a smile to everyone.

Our other two artists, Peter King and Meriel Tilling, use colour, light and delicate brushwork in their landscapes and still life paintings, and their collections provide a sensitive yet complementary contrast to Ted’s work.

We are also thrilled to be the first gallery to show Helen Foster’s amazing bowls and vases. Every one is hand-built and unique, and they incorporate some truly wonderful colours and textures. We absolutely love them and we’re sure you will too!


Edward Bowen trained at Birmingham College of Art in silversmithing then gained a first class honours degree at Wolverhampton University. He relocated to Scotland a few years ago where he now paints, often taking inspiration from the Scottish landscape. His paintings in this collection reveal his quirky and humorous slant on computer jargon.








Peter King studied at Glasgow Art School under the tutelage of David Donaldson RSA and Duncan Shanks RSA. The light, colour and weathered landscape of Kintyre, The Clyde Valley and the vast panorama of land and sky dominated by Tinto Hill and the Scottish Borders are a constant source of Peter’s ideas and inspiration.






Meriel Tilling's watercolours and mixed media paintings are vibrant, delicate and convey a sense of the texture and form of the flowers depicted in her still lives. Her paintings of Scottish harbours are colourful and bring to life the peaceful atmosphere often found in fishing villages around our coast.



Helen Foster is exhibiting her ceramics for the first time and we are very excited by her collection of slab-built forms. Her "sail boat" vases are inspired by the elegant shape of yacht sails and her glazed stoneware bowls are inspired by the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, as well as glacial, seaside and volcanic pools.


You’ll also find other new pieces in our collections of jewellery, glass, ceramics, sculpture, textiles and wood.

Finally, the adjacent Whitmuir Restaurant will be serving a delicious lunch menu and we strongly recommend booking a table to avoid disappointment; their direct number is 01968 661 147.

We're looking forward to meeting you on Saturday and Sunday!

Helen, Helen and Kirsten