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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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The Promise of
Spring
5 February - 17 March 2011
In the middle of winter, this exhibition brings a promise of things to come and is guaranteed to chase away the winter blues!
Whether you’re looking for a new painting to brighten up your walls, a unique hand-made piece of glass or ceramic, or a beautiful piece of jewellery for someone special for Valentine's Day, you will be sure to find something in our new exhibition.
Paintings
 Tom
Watt's paintings bring a smile to everyone's face. He captures
temperature on canvas and his sought-after paintings from south-west
France simply shimmer with heat and colour. You will feel the
summer just by looking at these paintings!
 If
you are a wildlife enthusiast, you will appreciate the watercolour,
pen and ink paintings of Lucy Newton. Lucy is a gifted young artist
and she has an amazing ability to depict the fragility and tenacity
of our wildlife at the same time.
 You
may have admired Amy Marshall's work at Dancing Light before and
in this exhibition she brings you a collection of work from a
tour of the Scottish islands. Her big skies are open with the
promise of the summer weather to come. Amy has recently moved
into the area and is now truly a local artist.
Clifford
William Blakey's work was hugely admired in our Harvest exhibition
and he needs no introduction. Cliff believes that artists "have
a duty to show the beauty of the world" and his many-layered
landscapes and seascapes pull us into the drama of wild weather
and rugged terrain. He might apply a hundred layers of paint as
he builds up the depth, colour and texture of the piece.
Jewellery
Colour
and contrast are abundant in jewellery from a fantastic variety
of new makers. For those of you who love Angela Learoyd's work,
we have a beautiful new collection with some stunning semi-precious
stones and silver work.
Heather Andrews produces beautiful and individual jewellery using copper, pearls, gemstones and recycled silver. She also fuses together miniscule pieces of biodegradable plastic to create pieces in glorious shimmering colour combinations.
 Ana
Herranz-Molina works mainly with silver and gives her jewellery
unusual textures and finishes. Colour is added using a variety
of semi-precious stones and freshwater pearls. Her influences
include the nature and landscapes from her native Spain, from
here in her adoptive country Scotland, and traditional patterns
such as vintage wallpapers and Moroccan tiles.
 Michael
Peckitt describes his jewellery as "wearable art".
Trained in fine art painting, Michael works colour into his
unique jewellery accessories. The vibrant colours are never
replicated and each hand-made individually designed piece
holds its own unique beauty. Each piece is shaped from acrylic
and anodised aluminium with fittings handcrafted from sterling
silver.
 Kimberley
Waterhouse grew up on the West Coast of Scotland and this
has inspired her to produce a very personal collection of
jewellery using slate which she has collected from the beach,
combined with gold and silver to enhance the precious quality
of the stone.
Ceramics
We are very lucky to have a small collection of work from South Lissens Pottery, made before David and Lynn closed down their kiln in Fife before moving to the far north of Scotland. The strong blue colours and distinctive shapes of this work have made it a great favourite.
Mark Haillay has created two fantastic cartwheeling jesters, in response to the great success of his Bend over Backwards figures in our last exhibition. Check out the shoes!
Elizabeth Elliott makes a welcome return with her hand-formed ceramics made by the traditional methods of coiling or from slabs. Her animal forms are pared down to simple abstract lines, but still contain the character and spirit of the animal.
Wood
Dave
Binns has promised another table and we can't wait to
see it! His work is highly prized and each piece truly
individual. Dave collects wood from trees which have fallen
down naturally, and it is the shape, colour and texture
of the wood which determine the design of each table.
For the first time we have some of Leo Norris's larger
pieces for you - three beautifully crafted wooden tables
of different sizes and designs. You can also see some
more of his contemporary wooden clocks made of elm and
beech.
Glass
Rachel
O'Dell's Metamorphosis series of glass work explores
the idea of outer and inner selves and what we choose
to reveal to those around us. She works with Pate de
Verre as it allows her to accurately place colours and
to develop a variety of surface textures which makes
the work tactile and intriguing.
Promise
Come
and join us at the opening of "Promise"
on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February at 12 noon, when
we'll be serving wine until 3pm.
The adjacent Whitmuir restaurant is of course open
for snacks and lunches, though to be sure of a table
at lunchtime it will be best to book on 01968 661
147.
Helen, Helen, and Kirsten
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