The Open Eye Gallery is committed to the promotion of young contemporary artists alongside those of the established school. Ranging from the traditional to the avant-garde, the figurative to the abstract, each exhibition is complemented by a selection of applied art including sculpture, ceramics and jewellery.
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Caroline Ann Mordue
Haunts 10 Jan - 1 Feb 2025 'Through my paintings I’m drawn to the forms of interior landscape, and looking at everyday objects and settings in a way that brings out the beauty of the space in these scenes. In these paintings, I seek to capture the ordinary moments around us that often go overlooked, such as... Read more -
Audrey Rapier
Between Land and Light 10 Jan - 1 Feb 2025 Audrey Rapier was born in Scotland and grew up in a village on the west coast of Cumbria. After a Foundation course at Carlisle, she studied Fine art painting at the Central School of Art and Design in London (BA Hons, 1st class, 1981). After graduating she settled in North... Read more
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Alberto Morrocco OBE (1917-1998)
22 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 An exhibition of drawings and paintings by celebrated Scottish-Italian artist Alberto Morrocco. Renowned for his superb draughtsmanship and traditional teaching practices, this exhibition will showcase a selection of his largely unseen portfolio drawings alongside landscapes, still lifes and figurative works acquired directly from the artist's Estate Alberto Morrocco OBE FRSA... Read more -
Edinburgh Environs
22 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 A mixed exhibition of contrasting paintings capturing the essence of Edinburgh and its surrounding areas through the artists’ eyes. 'Edinburgh Environs' is a collection of works reflecting each artist's unique take on our majestic city. Read more -
Sally Cuthbert
Nest 22 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 ‘Nest’ is a new collection, based on Cuthbert's love of nesting and family, the ebb and flow of family life and home. The collection is a mixture of leaf shapes bracelets and necklaces, in sterling silver and brass. Read more -
Alice McMurrough RSW RGI PAI and Neil MacDonald RSW RGI PAI
Take Two 25 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 'This is the second two person exhibition we have shared, hence the title 'Take Two'. Although we both studied around the same time at Glasgow School of Art we did not know each other until we graduated. Skip forward 42 years, through various teaching experiences and raising... Read more -
Tom Mabon
Connections 25 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 'A cousin told me she would like to investigate the family Shetland connection. I had no idea there was one. It appears my forebears occupied the croft in the Burrafirth picture. My dad had little or no interest in family history, apart from once saying ‘we come from Roxburgh, a... Read more -
Teena Ramsay
Jewellery 25 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Teena Ramsay is part-time Programme Director of Jewellery and Metal Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. She regularly creates work for public exhibition and private commissions. Through her design practice, Teena questions the natural qualities of her materials, forging new aesthetic partnerships. She creates dynamic collections... Read more -
Stuart Buchanan
Wandering and Wonderment 27 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Scottish artist Stuart Buchanan was born in Glasgow in 1970. He studied Fine Art Drawing and Painting at the Glasgow School of Art and graduated in 1992. He has been working as a professional artist after setting up his art studio in 1993. Since then Stuart has firmly established himself... Read more -
Saul Robertson RSW RGI
Idyll 27 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Saul Robertson was born in 1978 and studied drawing and painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art between 1996 and 2000. During his time as a student he was nominated for the Scottish International Educational Trust Award and won The Ninewells MRI Imaging Purchase Prize. Saul Robertson's idyllic scenes... Read more -
Roland Fraser
New Engine 30 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 'This show is my sixth at the gallery and consists of work made between 2023 and the first half of 2024. With the latest work, there is a strong reference to my immediate environment: the fields and buildings around Newton Farm in Midlothian. This has been my place of work... Read more -
Angus McEwan PRSW AWS NWS AWI RWS RGI
Liminal Spaces 30 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 'My work delves into the intricate interplay between realism and the often-overlooked nuances of dark interiors, liminal spaces, and architectural details. Through meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to authenticity, I strive to capture the essence of spaces that exist on the threshold-those fleeting, transitory moments where one is... Read more -
Leon Morrocco RSA RGI
Terre et Mer 26 Jul - 24 Aug 2024 Leon Morrocco RSA RGI presents a new body of work from his studio in the South of France, which takes us from the heights of the Alpes-Maritimes to the streets and beachfronts of Nice. Exploring Morrocco's recent fascination with the natural landscape, Terre et Mer contrasts the architectural rigidity of... Read more -
Jennifer Watt
Sculpture 26 Jul - 24 Aug 2024 Sculptural artist Jennifer Watt will be displaying an array of bronze and bronze resin sculptures at the Open Eye Gallery for August 2024. Read more -
Cristina Zani
Jewellery 26 Jul - 24 Aug 2024 Cristina Zani was born and grew up in Italy. After graduating in Languages and Literature, she moved to Edinburgh to teach Italian. Following a career in corporate communication, she decided to pursue her passion and completed an MFA in Jewellery at Edinburgh College of Art in June 2012. She established... Read more -
Brendan Stuart Burns
Into the Light 27 Jun - 20 Jul 2024 'My work, both past and present, is underpinned by the central themes of absence, isolation, mortality and the spiritual. It is the balance between paint, process and subject matter that has maintained my visual language and its development through what on the surface may seem to have been differing themes.... Read more -
Modernist British Prints
In Association with Osborne Samuel 27 Jun - 20 Jul 2024 In the pre-war years, artists were responding to the rapid modernisation of time and in anticipation of what would be the first fully mechanised war. French Cubists were reacting to the changing times by including abstract shapes and fragmentation in their work. Italian Futurists perceived the world as being in... Read more -
Janette Kerr
Online Exhibition 27 Jun - 20 Jul 2024 Janette Kerr is a painter deeply embedded in place, working at the interface between land, sea and historical experience. Kerr is not somebody who makes meticulous studies of landscape. Beyond mere topography, but with a nod towards the Northern Romantic tradition in landscape painting, her practice remains contemporary and experimental.... Read more -
Sculpture Exhibition
Online exclusive 7 - 22 Jun 2024 An online exhibition with works by bronze sculptors Cobus van der Walt and Christopher Marvell. Cobus van der Walt grew up in stellenbosch near Cape Town. In Pursuit of developing his interest in art, evident from a very early age, he completed a BA degree in Fine Arts at the... Read more -
Chris Bushe RSW
Wind, Wave, Rock and Sand: New Paintings of Islay, Mull and Iona 31 May - 22 Jun 2024 'This new series of recent paintings continues an abiding fascination and passion I have for the islands of the Hebrides and especially of Islay, Mull and Iona. I first visited and painted them over 20 years ago and have kept going back year after year drawn by their extraordinary beauty... Read more -
Kirsty Wither
A Layered View 31 May - 22 Jun 2024 Kirsty Wither paints brightly coloured and textured still lifes, figures and landscapes. Her paintings are as much about the surface quality as the subject matter, applying vibrant layers of oil paint to achieve the desired outcome. 'I have a strong belief that colour can have a profound effect on our... Read more -
Jacqueline Leighton Boyce
Showcase 31 May - 22 Jun 2024 Jacqueline Leighton Boyce works with red terracotta clay, generally using coiling and slab building techniques. She 'paints' using slips, underglaze colours and scraffitto drawing. After firing the pieces twice, she then applies metallic lustres and fires once again. Jacqueline Leighton Boyce grew up on a farm on Exmoor and after... Read more -
Janette Kerr
Showcase 31 May - 22 Jun 2024 Janette Kerr is a painter deeply embedded in place, working at the interface between land, sea and historical experience. Kerr is not somebody who makes meticulous studies of landscape. Beyond mere topography, but with a nod towards the Northern Romantic tradition in landscape painting, her practice remains contemporary and experimental.... Read more -
Marianne Hazlewood
Emerge: Natural Design 3 - 25 May 2024 Marianne Hazlewood's new work has roots in a few areas, emergent growth, pattern and plant architecture.
I have been working with the genus Arisaema for several years now. They are part of the Arum family, an exotic plant here in Britain, growing in mountainous regions on the edges of forests in Asia, Africa and North America. Read more -
Elaine Pamphilon
Paintings 3 - 25 May 2024 An exhibition on new and recent works, Elaine Pamphilon's colourful paintings are inspired by the things she loves - everyday objects, souvenirs from travels, patterns, and the romantic, wild countryside around her homes in St Ives and Cambridge. A walking enthusiast, Pamphilon is also drawn towards the haphazard nature of... Read more -
Christopher Marvell
Sculpture 3 - 25 May 2024 Exhibiting alongside Elaine Pamphilon is sculptor, and husband, Christopher Marvell. Inspired by the considerable amounts of time spent at his home in St Ives, and the daily walks in the countryside with Pamphilon, the rich imagery gathered from the natural world have informed his sculpted animals. Frequently looking to Cornish... Read more -
Robbie Bushe RSA
Ghosts in the Garden 5 - 27 Apr 2024 'I have always been a reluctant gardener. Though, as a child I would get lost in building and rebuilding road networks amongst the dug-up potato beds, and improvising stories, characters and other worlds, against the backdrop our one-acre plot in rural Aberdeenshire. Half a century later, my partner Catharine and... Read more -
Alasdair Wallace
All Enquiries 5 - 27 Apr 2024 An exhibition of new paintings, Alasdair Wallace creates works that are characterised by very controlled composition combined with an unusual density and richness of colour, the outcome is what he calls 'landscape inventions'. 'My paintings are produced in an intuitive process of invention, oblique observation and memory. There is a... Read more -
Mick Manning and Brita Granström
High Tide - Low Tide...and everything in between 8 - 30 Mar 2024 This autobiographical exhibition celebrates 30 years of relentless creativity by this artistic double-act. It will be their third exhibition at The Open Eye. Swedish-born Brita Granström is primarily a painter but also a well-known illustrator. Mick is an exhibiting artist, a writer and an illustrator who studied at the Royal College of Art before serving as a Course Leader at The Glasgow School of Art between 1988 - 1998. His paintings are inspired by personal encounters with the natural world and gently touch on issues that should concern us all. Read more -
Charles Simpson
Back to the Eye 8 - 30 Mar 2024 Charles Simpson is a landscape painter of the Scottish Borders, which provide him with a wealth of inspiration for his work. Annual trips to the north-west coast and islands of Scotland, such as Mull and Iona, also help him capture the effects of light on the land, sky and sea. Read more -
David Martin
Silk Roads: New Work From Travels in Central Asia 9 Feb - 2 Mar 2024 David Martin (b.1975) is an artist living and working in Edinburgh. In his painting practice he aims to make work that reflects the state of the world we live in. He has a particular interest in travelling to places where he can explore themes of global change and transformation, and... Read more -
Graeme Wilcox
Looking Out 9 Feb - 2 Mar 2024 Graeme Wilcox's subject matter is almost always the human figure, usually depicted in moments of reflection or emotion. Many of his recent paintings have been re-imaginings of people or events seen as he journeys through the city. These paintings are an attempt to represent the strangeness and poignancy of people and everyday life. He often makes notes describing people and how they look or behave, and these act as aides-memoires for future work. Read more -
Adrian Wiszniewski RSA
Science and Nature 12 Jan - 3 Feb 2024 Exhibition with strong drawing element and fertile imagination. Populated with contemplative figures set in vividly coloured Arcadian landscapes, his paintings are rich with symbolic, political and philosophical depths. Read more -
David Evans ARCA RSA RSW (1942-2020)
12 Jan - 3 Feb 2024 David Evans ARCA RSA RSW (b.1942) was a hyperrealist painter of seemingly mundane interior views, still lifes, building facades and street scenes. David Pugh Evans was born in South Wales in 1942 and studied at Newport College of Art from 1959 to 1962 and the Royal College of Art, London... Read more -
Alex Malcolmson
Veering North 24 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 'I come from the north and often travel in that direction. However, in the 'deep south' of northern England, where I have my studio, I find that the experiences of wildlife and seascape embedded in early years readily surface in the pieces I make. I have spent a lifetime making... Read more -
James McNaught RSW RGI
Showcase 24 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 James McNaught RSW RGI (b.1948) paints buildings and street scenes, mysterious figures and other narrative elements in fictional combinations. James McNaught was born in Glasgow, the only son of parents who worked as carpet designers at Templeton's Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green. He studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of... Read more -
Tom Wilson
Miscellany and Mugshots 27 Oct - 18 Nov 2023 Edinburgh based artist and former Open Eye Gallery owner and director Tom Wilson presents 'Miscellany and Mugshots', an exhibition of works presenting recent pencil and crayon works on paper, montages of the discarded treasures of everyday life, alongside a collection of graphite portraits referencing both fine art and photography, chosen... Read more -
Ann Ross RSW
'by leaves we live' 27 Oct - 18 Nov 2023 Much of her time is spent working, watching and listening in various gardens and woodlands on travels near and far. Many of her paintings are visual memories of special moments in these beautiful spaces, wild or cultivated, and glimpses of wildlife or well beloved pets. Read more -
Diane Rendle
Invoking the Muse 27 Oct - 18 Nov 2023 'Invoking the Muse’ is a collection of paintings which explore human needs and responses shaped by beliefs that merge with both traditional and modern culture. Read more -
Astrid Trügg
Showcase 29 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Astrid Trügg (b.1972) is a Dutch artist based in East Lothian. Her still lifes explore texture, light and colour and are inspired by the shape, architecture and history of the objects she paints. Astrid Trügg was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1972 and in 1991 she graduated from the... Read more -
Andrew Restall
29 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Andrew Restall (b. 1931) is known for his postage stamp designs and more latterly mixed media landscapes. Restall's work straddles painting, printmaking and collage. Known for his abstract imagery that looks to the landscape of Lowland Scotland and the footprint of humankind upon it, this exhibition of selected works shows... Read more -
Rachel Ross
Recollection 1 - 23 Sep 2023 An exhibition of new paintings by Edinburgh-based artist Rachel Ross, Recollection is a series of compositions encapsulating thoughts and memories, suggested by the placement and intrinsic beauty of seemingly mundane objects. 'It is a human instinct to accumulate possessions. They travel through life with us. Whether treasured keepsake or merely... Read more -
Anna King
Reclamation 1 - 23 Sep 2023 Anna King is a Scottish contemporary landscape painter. An exhibition of new and recent paintings, Reclamation is a survey of deconstructed sheds to overgrown greenhouses, clearfell sites and field edges, exploring nature's opportunistic reclaim of our managed landscapes. Read more -
Janette Kerr
Showcase 1 - 23 Sep 2023 We are delighted to display a showcase of new and recent paintings from the Shetland based artist, Janette Kerr. Janette Kerr is a painter deeply embedded in place, working at the interface between land, sea and historical experience. Kerr is not somebody who makes meticulous studies of landscape. Beyond mere... Read more -
John Bellany (1942-2013)
The Italian Connection 1 - 26 Aug 2023 Considered by many critics and curators as being the most significant Scottish painter of the twentieth century, this exhibition is a celebration of John Bellany's life (1942 - 2013). It is also a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of his death in which the Open Eye Gallery is proud to... Read more -
Fiona MacRae
30 Jun - 22 Jul 2023 MELAMINE QING Both words are evocative of a period in history. There is a complete contrast in materials, yet both have an elegance and balance and sit comfortably together. Melamine of the 1960s and 70s, conjures up carefree freedom, northern, its non-precious, practical, bright , warm and indestructible, with a... Read more -
Ffiona Lewis
Harris Machair 2 - 24 Jun 2023 A body of oil paintings and works on paper, this exhibition is the culmination of 4 years of repeated wanderings to the Outer Hebrides while renovating a small farm in coastal Suffolk by Ffiona Lewis. Read more -
Sheila McInnes
Simple Pleasures 2 - 24 Jun 2023 An exhibition of new paintings, the common thread running through all the individual works is finding beauty in everyday things: walking the dog, the Scottish coastline, the sea, the company of loved ones, trees, the Scottish landscape and our connection with the natural world. Born in Kirkcaldy in Fife in... Read more -
David Forster RSW
Play 5 - 27 May 2023 An exhibition of new and recent paintings by Edinburgh based artist David Forster, Play explores our ritual nature of play and leisure within the landscape. David Forster RSW SSA is renowned for his intricate skill in the use of watercolour and acrylic as mediums to create an intense atmosphere, manipulating... Read more -
Donald Provan
Fish, Fruit, and F-Holes 7 - 29 Apr 2023 Donald Provan (b.1964 ) is a Scottish artist who lives and works in Edinburgh. His oil and watercolour paintings relate to water and can be divided into two distinct areas: the land or seascape above and the fish life below. For this exhibition Provan also focusses on still lifes, a new and intriguing direction for him, alongside his dynamic marine depictions for which he is well-known. Read more -
Susie Leiper
On High Hills 7 - 29 Apr 2023 The artist and the mountaineer: both experience an immense thrill when confronted with a blank canvas or cliff. And both feel a compelling impulse to make a mark on that forbidding expanse. Great artists have claimed that their world held no higher pleasure for them than the sight of a... Read more -
Charles MacQueen RSW RGI & Christine Woodside RSW RGI
A Joint Exhibition 10 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 Husband and wife artists, Charles MacQueen and Christine Woodside, will exhibit new and recent works in a joint exhibition. Charles MacQueen RSW RGI Having made a name for himself as an abstractionist at a time when the Scottish art scene was dominated by figurative artists, Charles MacQueen has... Read more -
Jonathan Gibbs
Beneath the Moon 10 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 An exhibition of new and recent paintings, drawings and wood engravings by former Edinburgh College of Art Programme Director of Illustration Jonathan Gibbs. This exhibition includes a series of panel paintings in which he depicts form and space with allusions to landscape and objects. Alongside the paintings, Gibbs' new wood... Read more -
Sarah Carrington
Sea Sanctuary 10 Feb - 4 Mar 2023 Edinburgh born landscape artist Sarah Carrington evokes mood and weather in her mixed media coastal landscapes. Now based in the north coast of Ireland, Carrington paints the familiar coastlines of both homelands, exploring the similarities between these two Celtic lands. Sarah has been working as a professional artist since graduating... Read more -
Jayne Stokes
Recollection 10 Feb - 4 Mar 2023 Jayne Stokes is essentially a landscape painter but not in a traditional sense. Working in a range of mediums and incorporating found objects into her paintings, her aim is to explore and document our relationship with the environment. The starting point for most of her pieces is a journey. This... Read more -
Philip Archer OBE
Shadows and Reflections 13 Jan - 4 Feb 2023 Philip Archer’s new work is a drama of shadows and feints, reflections and glimpses - in oil paintings inspired by marketplaces and oil pastels rooted in the landscapes of Le Langhe, Piedmont. Both the paintings and the pastel works arise from the artist’s characteristic practice of what Simone Weil called... Read more -
Alberto Morrocco OBE (1917-1998)
26 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 An exhibition of drawings and paintings by celebrated Scottish-Italian artist Alberto Morrocco. Renowned for his superb draughtsmanship and traditional teaching practices, this exhibition will showcase a selection of his largely unseen portfolio drawings alongside landscapes, still lifes and figurative works acquired directly from the artist's Estate. Read more -
Alice Dudgeon
Selected Works 28 Oct - 19 Nov 2022 Alice's work is characterised by lightweight, intricate, wooden structures. Selecting labour-intensive, repetitive processes she works each element meticulously celebrating the irregularity of the natural material whilst subtly evidencing the hand. Most recently, she has translated preliminary ink drawings into intricate steam-bent, carved and ebonised sculpted forms. Alice Dudgeon studied Sculpture... Read more -
Paul Furneaux RSA
Rain Salutation 28 Oct - 19 Nov 2022 An exhibition of new work by the renowned artist and printmaker, Paul Furneaux RSA. Furneaux is widely known for his use of traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques, also known as mokuhanga. This minimalist yet complex technique has a simple process which has allowed Paul to develop his practice into a... Read more -
Glen Scouller RSW RGI
Arcadia 1 - 22 Oct 2022 'Of the two definitions above, the second one relates more to the content of this exhibition,although I do feel a connection with Greece having been awarded a travelling scholarship to Crete while at Glasgow School of Art and have been back to paint and draw there on a number of... Read more -
Henry H. Fraser
Keep the Heid 2 - 24 Sep 2022 Keep the Heid is an exhibition of paintings from Henry H. Fraser reflecting on human fragility and resilience during these times of global chaos and uncertainty. Read more -
Kirsty Wither
In Colour 2 - 24 Sep 2022 Kirsty Wither paints brightly coloured and textured still lifes, figures and landscapes. Her paintings are as much about the surface quality as the subject matter, applying vibrant layers of oil paint to achieve the desired outcome. Read more -
Barbara Rae CBE RA
Lammermuir 29 Jul - 27 Aug 2022 In conjunction with Edinburgh Art Festival Open Eye Gallery presents a large-scale exhibition of recent paintings by renowned painter and printmaker Barbara Rae CBE RA. Focusing on the seasonal environment of the Lammermuirs this exhibition is an exploration of the contrasting, yet integral, aspects of the landscape. Barbara Rae chooses... Read more -
Saul Robertson
Showcase 4 - 25 Jun 2022 Saul Robertson was born in 1978 and studied drawing and painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art between 1996 and 2000. During his time as a student he was nominated for the Scottish International Educational Trust Award and won The Ninewells MRI Imaging Purchase Prize. Soon after graduating he... Read more -
Chris Bushe RSW
Chasing Light 4 - 25 Jun 2022 "This new group of paintings are all from a number of painting trips to the islands of Mull, Iona and Islay over the past two years.
I love visiting and painting these islands at the best of times, but like all of us having endured various levels of lockdown during the pandemic it felt even more joyful to be back on those beautiful Hebridean beaches when we were eventually allowed to travel again. The act of painting these remarkable landscapes is for me a life-enhancing experience and I would hope that in some small way the paintings can elicit a similar response in the viewer.
In particular the exhibition is about those fleeting moments when sun, cloud, wind and weather combine to light up these very special islands lending them a sublimeness that seems otherworldly, and I have tried to capture in this body of work these transient "soul-stirring" moments." Read more -
Andrew Squire
Changes 7 - 28 May 2022 The interplay between people and the natural environment has always been an important foundation of my work as an artist. As our world moves into an ever-more precarious place, it seems to drive the need for what Ben Okri calls existential creativity - a creativity rooted in the seismic and... Read more -
Catharine Davison RSW
Flow 9 - 30 Apr 2022 'Flow' is an exhibition about being compelled to paint. Catharine's practice is founded upon the plein air tradition - drawing and painting directly from source. Inspired by the waterway of The Water of Leith, these paintings reveal how Catharine likes to move fluently through and adapt to the variances of... Read more -
James Fairgrieve RSA RSW
A Journey: A Retrospective Exhibition 12 Feb - 5 Mar 2022 Celebrating James Fairgrieve's extensive career, this large-scale exhibition represents a selection of work from his studio, reflecting a physical and artistic journey spanning around 50 years. Read more -
Paul Barnes
Showcase 30 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 Paul Barnes' unique, illustrative and thoughtful paintings portray imagined creatures which possess human like qualities and identities. There is an innate sympathy in his work which seems to mirror personal journeys, the emotional and practical conflicts and resolutions of life combined in a mythical representation, which in many ways can... Read more -
Keith Epps
30 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 Edinburgh based artist Keith Epps presents an intriguing array of pastoral landscapes. A highly technical painter, Epps' work is brilliantly representational, however not photo-realistic. Although his subject matter is not limited to specific genres, a fascination with clouds and sky has led him to produce a body of beautifully executed... Read more -
Tom Mabon
30 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 Tom Mabon is a Scottish rural landscape painter. His evocative oil on linen paintings capture the shifting light and wildlife of the farming seasons on the Black Isle, where he has lived since 1985. Mabon's acquaintance with the landscape of the Black Isle is palpable in the carefully constructed compositions... Read more -
Vincent Butler RSA RGI PAI (1933-2017)
4 - 25 Sep 2021 An exhibition of works by one of Scotland's leading figurative artists working in bronze. Vincent Frederick Butler, born in Manchester in 1933, studied sculpture at the Manchester School of Art, the Edinburgh College of Art and at the Academy of Fine Art in Milan, during the fifties. After almost a... Read more -
Leon Morrocco RSA RGI
Après-midi 3 - 28 Aug 2021 A large-scale exhibition in conjunction with Edinburgh Art Festival Après-midi celebrates Leon Morrocco’s outstanding draughtsmanship and passion for colour. Morrocco’s practice has been consistently inspired by travel. Born in Edinburgh in 1942, Leon Morrocco RSA RGI is the first son of the Scottish-Italian artist Alberto Morrocco OBE. In 1968, after... Read more -
Roland Fraser
4 - 22 May 2021 Roland Fraser creates artworks inspired by the material they are produced from. He selects raw materials that have an accumulation of surface markings and evidence of human use. The ghost traces from missing locks, hinges and structural joints have a particular resonance for him as they refer to previous incarnations. The completed pieces are a composition of these disparate fragments and his titles often make reference to the places where the raw material was located. Read more -
Brent Millar
After the Rain 6 - 24 Oct 2020 To mark his 70th year the Open Eye Gallery presents a large-scale exhibition to celebrate the works of Edinburgh-based artist Brent Millar. Brent looks to nature, poetry and music to produce work of rare symbolic and emotive force, creating dreamlike compositions where observation and imagination blur harmoniously. Birds are a... Read more -
Neil Macdonald PAI RGI RSW
Of Time and Place 1 - 25 Nov 2019 Neil Macdonald is drawn to locations abundant with historic and mythic presence and is particularly engaged with Scottish history and the evidence of its previous peoples. Macdonald's works explore the lyrical narrative of natural sites and strong bold shapes offered by castles, churches, old townships and harbours. Through the distortion... Read more -
Alice McMurrough PAI RGI RSW
Open Secrets 5 - 29 Apr 2019 Alice McMurrough PAI RGI RSW is a Scottish artist whose work is concerned with the connectivity of experience. Ideas, observations and dreams are researched, edited and translated into visual statements. The presence of a dominant female figure is common in her paintings and can become emblematic of a greater purpose:... Read more -
Peter Thomson RGI RSW
Eye of the Day 5 - 29 Apr 2019 The Open Eye Gallery presents an exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Peter Thomson RGI RSW, who is known for his figurative and landscape based oil paintings. The exhibition will contain Thomson's most recent works that reflect his organic, creative process of having a known starting point and an unintended destination. Two... Read more -
Carola Gordon
Walking Ways, Edinburgh 16 - 31 Mar 2018 The Open Eye Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Carola Gordon, showing popular walking routes around Edinburgh. Gordon was born in Lucknow in India in 1940 and was educated between 1948 and 1961 at school and university in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, where she graduated in English and Fine Art.... Read more -
Alexander Moffat OBE RSA
A View of the Nation 10 Jan 2018 - 29 Jan 2019 The Open Eye Gallery presents an exhibition of portraits by Alexander Moffat OBE RSA timed to coincide with the publication of his monograph, Facing the Nation: The Portraiture of Alexander Moffat (Luath Press). With text by Bill Hare, the book charts Moffat's eminent career as a portraitist of the greats... Read more
