&Gallery :: Contemporary Art Gallery :: Dundas Street, Edinburgh

From highly sculptural ceramics, to industrial sculpture and experimental painting, the work of artist Rebecca Appleby is a continual exploration of the contemporary urban landscape. Examining the ever-present cohabitation and conflict between industry and nature.

Joy Arden is a painter/printmaker based in Edinburgh. Her paintings are characterised by an atmospheric use of muted ochres, chalky greys/whites and deep earth colours. The process she engages in begins with sketchbook drawings carried out at a site of interest.

Jonathan Barber, a contemporary artist based in Edinburgh creates atmospheric abstracted paintings based around light, darkness, shape, movement and presence.

Andrew Clausen (U.S.A.). is an artist and sculptor living in Arnhem, Netherlands. Cast concrete and fabricated metals are his primary mediums which are used to form works that span between minimalist thought-provoking objects to engaging fabrications.

Michael Craik was born in Edinburgh in 1972, he has worked as an artist in Scotland for the last 22 years. His practice explores the interplay of colour and repetition as a method of producing quiet, contemplative work concerned with colour, material quality and process. Craik creates paintings by repeatedly applying paint and removing it again.

Joan Doerr is a Scottish abstract painter. Her home studio is in Edinburgh’s West End. Joan has exhibited widely across the UK, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London in 2014, 2016 and 2017.

Hanna ten Doornkaat is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Greater London. Hanna ten Doornkaat is a prolific painter whose work centers on the process of painting itself, involving adding and removing layers.

Professional artist Susan Laughton worked in architecture before returning to education to study art graduating with a BA Hons. Susan's long standing interest in landscape and architecture has always inspired her drawing and painting.

Canadian Karine Léger began to explore her interest in painting in the early 2000’s. Over the ensuing years, her artistic vision evolved through photography, collage and painting. Karine Léger creates delicately layered acrylic paintings, exploring collage and composition.

Born in Porthmadog, North Wales, and based in Cardiff, Elfyn Lewis is a painter whose distinctive abstract paintings are held in a number of public and private collections. In 2009 Elfyn was awarded the gold medal for fine art at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and later went on to be named Welsh artist of the year in 2010.

Jai Llewellyn‘s paintings are about the process of mark making, the history of a line seen through an abstract picture of the future. Llewellyn works between painting and printmaking with no hierarchy, each discipline informs the other, both focusing on the relationships and juxtapositions of old and new, growth and decay, construction and deconstruction.

Edinburgh based artist James Lumsden creates paintings from multiple translucent glazes of acrylic paint, the process being repeated layer upon layer until the painting begins to emerge.

Scottish artist Andrew Mackenzie graduated with an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art in 1993. He is a painter whose artwork mines a territory between abstraction and representation. His paintings respond to relationships between landscape and the built environment.

David Mankin is a contemporary fine artist based in Cornwall. His abstract paintings are inspired by the forms, colours and textures of the Cornish landscape

Italian artist Ivan De Menis attended the graphic arts course at the Bruno Munari institute of Art in Vittorio Veneto before completing a degree in painting from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts in 1997.

Edinburgh based artist Emily Moore creates arresting landscape paintings using an amalgamation of personal source images – usually photographs taken to record her own travels and experiences.

Mary Morrison grew up in the Western Isles, she is drawn to exploring a sense of space and light which is particular to these islands. Aiming to combine a sense of place in the paintings with notation – variously suggesting mapping, measuring, music. Grid references, staves and tide tables recur in the artwork.

Lorraine Robson makes beautiful, thought-provoking artworks that pay homage to ancient and primitive skills, while embracing contemporary influences. In a world dominated by commercialism and technology, she enjoys the meditative nature of allowing the form to evolve with handwork, imagination and human labour, using the most primitive and natural materials available: the earth itself.

Dutch based painter Anke Roder studied at the Academy of Arts in Maastricht and the Royal Academy of Art and Design, ’s- Hertogenbosch. She is represented in The Netherlands by galleries in Maastricht, Harlingen and in the UK. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections.

Laura Jane Scott’s desire for formal simplicity through geometric form and striking use of colour has enabled her to produce a body of work where painting explores a model of architectural form and where the colour literally embodies a physical structure. The resulting work is a hybrid of painting and sculpture; a refined visual vocabulary of form and colour. Laura lives and works in London.

Anna Somerville is an award winning painting graduate from Edinburgh College of Art. Passionate about paint, mark making and colour, Somerville works intuitively imagining expressive, painterly scapes that conjure up hazy memories of places that she has visited.

JFK Turner’s artwork is concerned with the unnoticed ephemeral elements of everyday life; found objects, marks, stains and the natural effect of time. The objects Turner collects from the street form the basis of the work.

Derek Wilson established his studio in 2008 after graduating from Ulster University. He describes himself as a 21st century hybrid, part studio potter and part conceptual artist. His work centres around the potter’s wheel as a tool, however the finished product resulting from this traditional craft is contemporary abstract sculpture. This balance is echoed throughout Derek's work as he creates functionality within unconventional forms. By keeping the interiors of his works glazed, the potential of function exists, even if the forms speak more to artworks. His pieces are characterised by restraint, containment and subtle surface treatments. They are often fired up to five times to get the correct finish, bringing out the best of light and shadow.