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

 

Land, Sea, Sky
1 October - 10 November 2011

We are pleased to welcome an old friend of Dancing Light Gallery together with some artists who are new to us and perhaps new to you as well.

Douglas Davies

Many of you will already know Douglas, one of our local artists, who is making a welcome return to Dancing Light Gallery. Douglas graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and after a very successful career in pottery he now works full time as an artist. He has lived in the Scottish Borders for over thirty years and makes frequent painting trips to France and Spain. Douglas works in acrylic, pencil and crayon and his paintings clearly show his fascination with the land, sea and sky and the ever changing relationship these elements have with each other.


He writes: "To embark on a day’s painting with a large sheet of paper, bristling brushes and good light, is always an exciting prospect if not a slightly apprehensive one as the end result could end up in the bin or with luck in a frame. The 'don't know' element - 'the sleeping surprise' as Robin Philipson called it - is always there, the trick is to recognise it".

Duncan Macleod

Duncan is from Glasgow and graduated from Glasgow School of Art and although he now lives on the East Coast, his inspiration comes largely from the West Coast of Scotland. He uses a variety of media in his work, including his own hand-made paper and has developed a very distinctive technique which captures the special mood of the Western Isles.


He writes: "My forebears came from the island of Lewis and from that comes my love of the land. I seem to have acquired a Celtic feel for Land, Sea and Sky and these elements form a never ending source of inspiration. I love looking at the sky and the way it changes. Pattern, colour and mood are ever changing. The mass of the land is relatively fixed and unchanging, though the seasons force that mass into change involving mood, colour, tone and texture. The only fixed elements seem to be the massive rocks and stones which abound in our native land but, on closer examination, these are alive with lichens, mosses, cracks and crevices. Water is the last element which I seek to explore...the effect of sunlight on water and the movement and power of water."


As ever, we also have a variety of pieces from other artists and craft workers in our exhibition.

Jewellery

Ingeborg Bratman has brought an exquisite new collection of jewellery in pearls, silver and gold. Ingeborg is an established and highly respected jeweller and examples of her work can be found in both the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Science Museum in London.


Genna Delaney, a young Scottish jewellery designer, is exhibiting with us for the first time. She recently won the Dundee Craft Makers Award and came 3rd in the Jolomo Craft and Design Awards this year. Her work is tactile and sculptural and uses plastic, glass and resin as well as gold and silver.

Ceramics

We’re delighted to have a new collection of Tom Hopkins Gibson’s woodgrain bowls, tumblers and jugs. Tom has shot to fame since appearing on BBC earlier this year in a series showing his journey from making his beautiful work to winning a place in Liberty in London.




Sue West collaborates with Tom in some of her work and we are lucky to have a new collection of her stoneware clay pots which she makes using a method more usually used for porcelain. Her work is slip-cast from handmade moulds, making it thinner and lighter than typical stoneware.

Textiles

We have a fabulous new collection of Borders Tweed bags and scarves by Julia Cunningham and felt and silk scarves by Linda Keith just in time for the cooler weather.

Land, Sea, Sky