Artists

Bailey Charlton

Bailey Charlton is an Aberdeenshire-based artist and retired teacher whose work is inspired by the country's coastal and rural landscapes. Her images reflect a long-standing connection with place, drawing on memories of shoreline walks, quiet paths and expansive views across land and sea. Open skies, soft colour palettes and simplified forms create a sense of calm and space.

Bower Bird Prints

The bowerbird builds a gallery before it builds anything else. It spends its life collecting colour, one impossible blue at a time, and arranges every find so the light lands just right. That felt familiar. I collect places: granite turning amber in the last hour of sun, a violet sky over a cold beach, the teal shadow of a doorway. Each one becomes a print, drawn in heavy ink and flat bold colour, and hung in the bower for you to find. Every print is made in Scotland, on heavy matte fine art paper, and shipped anywhere in the world.

Daphne Forbes

Small Dog, Large Weather. A small warm thing, and a great deal of weather. “I work in black and white because colour tells you the season, and I would rather tell you what the light was doing.”

Designs by Kim

Kim is a local artist whose work is inspired by Scotland's wildlife and landscapes, drawing on time spent hiking and exploring across the country. Her animal portraits, the Puffin, Fox and Squirrel Collections, use expressive colour and simple modern composition to capture character and personality. Kim first exhibited at the Trinity Centre in Aberdeen in 2023.

Jack Watson

Jack Watson is a landscape artist based on the Isle of Skye, where he works from his studio surrounded by sea, hills and open sky. His images reflect the distinctive character of the west coast: wide horizons, shifting light and the quiet balance between land and water, capturing the feeling of being in the landscape rather than any one fixed view.

John Spencer

John Spencer is a watercolour painter working between Aberdeenshire and the Isle of Skye, and the two places pull his work in different directions: the quiet inland glens and river valleys of the north east, and the harder coastal edges of the west. Where much landscape watercolour softens everything, Spencer pays close attention to the ground itself. Rock strata, dry stone dykes, the line of a track, the stones on a riverbed: these are drawn rather than suggested, and set against loose washes of sky and distant hill.