&Gallery is pleased to introduce weekly online exhibitions to highlight our artist’s works. Viewing rooms are an extension of our continued efforts to remain creatively connected and continue to be inspired.
This week, &Gallery is thrilled to present works by Rebecca Appleby, Michael Craik, Elfyn Lewis, James Lumsden, Anke Roder, Anna Somerville and Elaine Speirs.
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Rebecca Appleby
Rebecca trained at Edinburgh College of Art 1999-2001 (BA Ceramics) and currently lives and works in Yorkshire.
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. Through a series of techniques developed over a 20-year career, Rebecca’s works are strongly defined by a series of marks and surface contusions that mimic both the manufactured process of industry and the seemingly sporadic, yet calculated occurrences found in nature.Rebecca is currently working on her upcoming exhibition with the Gallery this spring.
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Michael Craik
Michael Craik studied Fine Art at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen before completing an MA in European Fine Art in Barcelona and has worked as an artist in Scotland for the last 22 years. A recipient of several awards, Craik’s work explores the interplay of colour and repetition as a method of producing quiet, contemplative work concerned with colour, material quality and process.
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Craik creates paintings by repeatedly applying paint and removing it again. This process of reduction features throughout his work, alluding to forces of erosion that form our landscape. He allows the elemental qualities of the paint to determine the appearance of each work, creating contemplative, minimal paintings. -
Elfyn Lewis
Elfyn Lewis studied at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, before gaining an MA in Fine Art from the University of Wales Institute.
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.
His work is always technically daring, as he experiments with techniques to achieve the effects he needs to communicate his ideas. This constant enquiry and pushing at the limits, gives the work a rare excitement and energy.Elfyn is currently working on his upcoming solo exhibition with the Gallery in June 2021.
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James Lumsden
James Lumsden is a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists, he has received several awards, and undertaken various residencies. James Lumsden’s work is primarily concerned with process – building translucent glazes of paint until an illusion of light and depth are achieved. Using an historical glazing method, yet utilising modern acrylic paint and mediums, the process involves the application of multiple (up to 30 or more) thin glazes of acrylic paint and gloss medium. Each layer is dragged, pulled or manipulated with various implements – the process being repeated layer upon layer until the painting begins to emerge. Arrived at by both chance and deliberation, the final painting reveals varying chromatic strata, which can be seen through the translucence and depth of the work.
We are looking forward to hosting his solo show this August 2021.
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Anke Roder
Dutch based painter Anke Roder studied at the Academy of Arts in Maastricht and the Royal Academy of Art and Design in ’s- Hertogenbosch. Roder lives and works on the coastal plains in northern Holland, where the landscape, pared back to an austere simplicity, has inspired her with two rich seams to mine – seascapes and plants. Her encaustic seascapes, sensuous satin slabs anchored along a welded horizon, ooze light. The ancient beeswax and pigment technique, applied in molten layers, conveys a contained elemental energy, loading the northern colours within a saturated interior.
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Anna Somerville
Anna Somerville is an award winning graduate from Edinburgh College of Art and her work has been exhibited in many galleries both nationally and internationally.
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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. Layers of thick impasto paint, fine detail glazes, scratched, worked back, scrubbed out and scribbled over canvas, linen and paper, she creates open expanses of space and light in her compositions, allowing the viewer to delve between the layers of paint and reflect on their own memories. -
Elaine Speirs
Elaine Speirs trained at Edinburgh College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. A regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy, with Visual Arts Scotland, and at the Society of Scottish Artists.
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Speirs explores the stark contrast she observes between the rich contours of female personhood and the depersonalised portraits of women that appear in the public sphere. Referencing a variety of imagery – ranging from eighteenth century portraiture to contemporary photography and film – the work reclaims the fleeting moments of humanity Speirs glimpses in these images, establishing a tentative connection between the distant and the intimate, between the universal and the personal.
