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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
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Natural
Impressions
17 April to 10 June 2010
We are delighted to be able to bring together the work of four highly respected Scottish artists who are influenced by nature in different ways. Each brings their own very individual impressions and interpretations of the natural world to this exhibition.
Joyce Gunn Cairns MBE
 Joyce’s
underlying concerns in drawing wildlife are to show a respect
for the natural world and to express her grief over the shameful
way we humans continue to treat our fellow creatures.
"I am seeking a connection with all sentient life in my work,
whether wildlife or figurative" says Joyce. "I hope
that at times my work conveys this connectedness, without which
it has no meaning."
Joyce has works in major collections including the Scottish National
Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh City Council, and the Universities
of Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Oxford.
Douglas Davies RSW
 These
striking paintings are the result of sketchbook material sourced
in the Scottish Borders and in France.
Douglas is constantly inspired by the landscape of Scotland where
he lives and works. France gives alternative imagery - seascapes
with contrasting skies, horizons and a different quality of light.
The still-lives are the product of the dark winter months.
Alexander Hamilton
 These
wonderfully delicate works were created during a residency at
Brantwood, the former Lake District home of John Ruskin. During
this residency, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Alexander had
the chance to focus on close observation of plants within their
natural environment.
Alexander has created an extraordinary collection of images of
spring flowers using a photographic technique called cyanotype.
A plant is placed onto a sheet of watercolour paper which has
been prepared with a cyanide solution. A sheet of glass is placed
on top of the plant, which is then exposed to the sunlight. After
some minutes the plant is removed and the paper is washed out
in clean water, fixing the image onto the paper.
This process is intuitive, as the preparation, length of exposure
and the fixing of an image is done instinctively. Sometimes plant
material is left on paper through pressing under glass, which
becomes part of the final image. Only one image can be made from
any one plant.
Ed
Slater
 Ed’s
paintings are expressions of layers and layers of imagination
combined with an alchemy of mixed media which includes acrylic
and glass paint.
Alluvial natural movement allows the paint to form itself, and
with some manipulation by the artist this creates an image which
is unique.
And
also in this Exhibition...
As
well as paintings, we have new collections of jewellery by Lilian
Busch and Angie Young and we are exhibiting work by Melanie Muir
for the first time.
There is a wonderful selection of ceramics by the ever-popular
Linda Kinsman-Blake and for the first time at Dancing Light Gallery
we are pleased to have Alison Ogden’s beautiful porcelain tableware.
We are lucky to have another unique piece of furniture made by
Dave Binns. This table is made from a bifurcated elm trunk which
unusually shows two sets of tree rings.
We look forward to seeing you at the gallery!
Helen, Helen, Jan and Kirsten
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