October Treats

New goods exhibition has had a great response but we're getting ready to open the October show!

"Curios will see a new collection of jewellery and artwork from the Such and Such members alongside a few invited artists.

Magpie Market

Back from Islay and straight back in to work, well if you can call it that...

Saturday saw us at Magpie Market down in the grassmarket with some work from the Such and Such gallery and studios.

New Goods

Very exciting...Our second show at Such and Such. 
With work from Matthew Swan, Alex Gibbs, Catherine Johnston and Callum Monteith.


Come in and have a look!

Inspiration

I'm back home on Islay this week and as usual this includes a mandatory trip to re-jig, a recycling centre full of second hand everything.  This trip saw us walk away with a hat, some balls of wool, 4 mugs and 3 gate bracket hinges.  But it's the balls of wool I wanted to talk about.

I am a terrible knitter.  I drop stitches, I create new ones and I tie knots in the wool to change colour, but despite it all, I enjoy the process.  This time i'm attempting to make a snood and started with stripes of the different colours in what I thought was a random fashion.  

I'm always amazed about the way that ideas and inspiration can quietly sneek their way into your mind and then the work.  I've never really been one to sit down, design a piece of jewellery or start a drawing with a clear idea of how it will turn out, prefering instead to let instinct guide me and often it's only afterwards that I can see exactly what it was that inspired me.

Sanaigmore Bay, Isle of Islay

New Jewellery!

A few pieces from the Such and Such show...

Salt water swimming pools

On the shores by St Monans and Pittenweem there are 2 old outdoor swimming pools that are filled as the tide comes in.  Neither are now maintained by the local council as they had been in the past.  I think I may have become a bit obsessed with them, made even more interesting by their crumbling structures, part way between man and the sea.  A place for people, taken back by nature.

Art, chips and sunshine.

Everything has been really busy lately so I thought it was time to take a wee break and head to the coast...but where to go?  Why Pittenweem of course! 


I spent 10 days working at the Pittenweem Arts Festival which hosted a fantastic mix of both resident and invited artists. 

My favourite piece of the festival.  Sculpture by Kaneyuki Shimoosako, installed on the old harbour wall.