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

 

Dawn Chorus

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you." Rumi

One of life's pleasures throughout May and June is hearing the dawn chorus, signifying activity, expectation, and stirrings of new life.

Our Dawn Chorus exhibition is a fresh and bright in recognition of this. It is a mixed exhibition with some favourite artists from last year - Sheena, Kirsten, Pat and Anne - along with Moy, Cat and Louise who are new artists to the gallery. You will love the variety of styles and subject matter!

Sheena Christie

Sheena initially trained as a graphic designer and in recent years she has chosen to return to painting. Her style has been inspired by the Scottish Colourists, the Canadian Group of Seven, the Californian Colourists and the Impressionists and her current paintings of Scottish landscapes convey her love of colour and texture.

Kirsten trained in drawing and painting at Bretton Hall College, Yorkshire, where she developed her vibrant and expressive style. Later, she studied in Japan, and the freedom and fluidity of Japanese watercolour techniques still informs all her drawings and paintings. She is based in South Lanarkshire and the work she is exhibiting in our Dawn Chorus exhibition illustrates her love of wildlife.

As an etcher Cat is drawn to the shape and texture of things. She loves the variation and patterns of flowers and has recently been inking solely in black, keeping the drawing clear. She likes the bold, sharp clarity of the shape, using shapes behind the image to bring in colour.





Louise studied printmaking at Cheltenham College of Art. Her etchings continue to be influenced by her time living and working in North Ronaldsay, where she was able to achieve a lifelong ambition of "living on an island, making art and owning a dog". She is a member of the Glasgow Print Studio and full time artist.




Diana Lambert makes her jewellery using sterling silver, copper, and high-quality glass beads. Her work is distinctive and clearly demonstrates her love of shape, texture and light. Diana is a keen walker and finds her inspiration in the Yorkshire Dales and along the coast, and these influences are very evident in her work.








Jane Alexander creates bold, bright, colourful jewellery using sterling silver, copper and enamel using a technique which she created herself and which remains unique. She stencils intricate designs on to the jewellery, building up the colours layer by layer, resulting in individual pieces which are vibrant and fun to wear.




Ken and Valerie Shelton work as a team, making their pottery together at their home in South Cheshire. Ken throws the pots on the wheel in fine white earthenware and Valerie paints onto the fired ceramic, using a combination of brushstroke and deep understanding of colour. Their pottery exemplifies perfect form combined with vibrant colour and each piece is unique.





Henriette combines the natural tactile fabrics of wool and silk using nunofelt techniques, combining beautiful colours to create unique scarves, wraps and shawls which are practical as well as very stylish.



















Alasdair Thomson is a sculptor living and working in Edinburgh. He has significant experience in carving large scale sculpture and other elements of decorative stonework, both in Scotland and abroad. He was apprenticed to the American sculptor Mark Mennin, in Connecticut, USA, and has undertaken the restoration of historic stone through working for a specialist firm in Edinburgh. He then studied sculpture in Italy in 2009/10, receiving his training from Italian masters in the studios of Mauro Beretini, and achieving his diploma in sculpture from the Senese Scuola Edile in Siena. Alasdair's work is diverse but he is increasingly drawn to creating works with a focus on functionality.




Andrew Sanders and David Wallace found a common interest in blown glass while training at North Staffordshire Polytechnic thirty years ago. They work together using traditional glassmaking techniques and recycled glass, producing a broad range of highly individual handmade decorative glassware including vases, bowls, bottles and drinking glasses.