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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Christmas 2010

This seems a funny thing to say - "our annual Christmas Exhibition is under way!".

It's funny because an annual exhibition means it's a year since we opened in December 2009, and it's been a year of pleasant surprises! The first surprise was the weather in early 2010 - that might not have been so great, but we were really really busy in spite of deep snow all around and our new venture got off to a flying start.



First Birthday Party

Low Tide by Douglas DaviesWe would be really pleased if you would come along and help us celebrate our first birthday on the afternoon of Sunday 12th December. We'll have wine from 12 until 3, and at 3 o'clock we'll draw our fund-raising raffle in aid of UNICEF.

First prize is the painting shown here, which has been very kindly donated by our local artist and friend Douglas Davies. Other prizes include lunch for two at Bardoulet's Restaurant at the Horseshoe Inn, Eddleston; a golfing day for four at Woll Golf Club near Selkirk; and more...

Tickets are priced at £5 each and are available from the Gallery right up until the draw is made, and also from Ken Henderson of the Scottish Borders UNICEF Group on 01750 20112.



 Our Exhibition for Christmas 2010

We have a varied selection of works, artists, and styles on show for you. Some of your (and our!) favourites are back and we also have some new artists and craftspeople exhibiting with us for the first time.

A small selection of the works on show...


Paintings

High Street Peebles by Lynn Hanley"High Street, Peebles" is one of a number of Lynn Hanley's intricate and charming street scenes of Edinburgh, West Linton and Peebles.






Peter Lloyd's works are a combination of watercolour and acrylic with occasional pastel inclusions; he's inspired by the Borders landscape and also by the very different and more rugged textures of South Uist.

Croft near Daliburgh, South UistEriskay from Glendale, South Uist











Cafe St Cirq Lapopie by Tom WattWe're pleased to have a number of Tom Watt's warm and sunny canvases brightening a corner of the gallery and reminding us of warmer times and climes.








Orkney Steading by Susan MitchellSusan Mitchell paints what she sees on her doorstep - literally, in the case of these chickens...








Keeping up the animal theme we have a cat from Shelagh Atkinson and Anne McQuitty's "Corps de Ballet".

Smug Whiskers by Shelagh AtkinsonCorps de Ballet by Anne McQuitty









Sculpture and Ceramics
Pike by Susan White-OakesRegular visitors will be familiar with Susan White-Oakes' incredible sculptures of animals, presented either as unique fabricated copper one-off originals or as very limited editions of bronze castings.


Susan has just completed this pike in chased copper with built-up head, gills and fins and eyes of set-in tiger-eye. We are delighted to have it swimming through the gallery, showing the predatory cunning and strength for which the original is notorious.


Calabash by Tom Hopkins GibsonOur regular exhibitor Tom Hopkins Gibson will be appearing on TV in the New Year; you'll be able to say that you saw his work here first...









Jewellery

Angela Learoyd works in silver and uses a variety of techniques to create surface texture and embellishment. Manipulating silver by doming, folding, hammering and rolling allows her to produce three-dimensional pieces, especially hollow beads. Her jewellery usually incorporates semi-precious gemstones.

Necklace of Mixed Gemstones and Silver Discs by Angela LearoydNecklace of Spiky Red Tiger Eye with Silver Accents by Angela Learoyd









Stag Cufflinks by Hannah LambWe have a range of jewellery from Hannah Lamb, including cufflinks - an ideal present for the man of the house...?





Botanics Gold Leaf Bangle by Angie YoungAnd of course a wee treat for a lady friend - Angie Young's "Botanics" jewellery is sinuous, flowing and, need we say, organic...!




And Finally...

We'll be open every day from from 11:00am to 5:00pm - excepting only 25th and 26th December and 1st and 2nd January. We're also open late on Thursday 9th and Thursday 16th December, as are our neighbours at the Whitmuir Organics Shop and Restaurant.

Have a great Christmas and a fabulous New Year!

Helen, Helen, and Kirsten