Artists

Helen Douglas’s books have won awards and are held in many international public collections including Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, V&A, Tate, Yale Centre for British Art and MOMA, New York. The most recent book published is SETTING, 2000, made in the first lockdown of Covid, Spring and early Summer 2020.
https://www.weproductions.com

David Faithfull

David Faithfull is an artist, printmaker and curator. He exhibits internationally and has work in collections including Tate Britain, the V&A and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He has shown works in ink; printed and drawn, books and artists’ books.
http://davidfaithfull.co.uk

James Hutcheson

James Hutcheson has enjoyed a long career as an illustrator and book designer. Amongst other activities, he was creative director at Birlinn Ltd and before that, art director for Canongate Books in Edinburgh. He continues to work for various publishers throughout the UK.
https://www.jameshutchesondesign.com

Tony retired from an engineering career twenty years ago, and ‘drifted’ into becoming a woodworker. He mostly made functional items, many of them for artists and craftspeople: furniture, equipment for bookbinders and weavers, display cases, etc.
However, after acquiring a lathe, he discovered the joys of making items with aesthetic qualities as well as functional. He enjoys exploring the attributes of different timber species.

Val Menon

Val Menon, BA Hons, Fine Art, is a nationally exhibited artist, including the RSA and Visual Arts Scotland, who has concentrated for this exhibition, on the East Coast between Edinburgh and Tyninghame. She says; It has become particularly special over the last two years and a sanctuary for me in between lockdowns. I am aiming to create a strong visual memory. I try to spend time in a place looking closely and observing.
https://valmenon.com

Charly Murray

Charly is a painter from the Borders, and is partners with Javier Ternero both in business and at home; trained in graphics and painting in London and Edinburgh. She draws inspiration from overlapping memories, shapes and colours in the landscape.
https://www.charlymurray.co.uk

John Onslow

John Onslow studied geography and trained as a cartographer, which included working as a geological draughtsman in the Aberdeen oil sector in the late 1970s   and at the same time studied art at evening classes and later with the Open College of Art. He says My work is inspired by the hills and dales near my home in the Scottish Borders and the places I visit near and far.  As a geographer and an artist, I am fascinated by the interaction between topography, light and the human response to landscapes. I seek out less well-known places, away from the crowds and the distractions of modern life.  John adds, The weather plays a big part in my work, such as through the play of light on the hills or the dramatic fast changing cloud formations in the sky above. 
https://www.johnonslowpaintings.com/profile.html

Alison Scott grew up in Edinburgh, then went to Duncan of Jordanstone Art College, Dundee, studying Printed Textiles. I taught for a while at The Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels. After falling for an Italian I moved to Italy in 1992 and there I am still. My journey in art-making has moved in various directions – hand-made paper, cashmere felted throws, and now the absolute joy of painting watercolour dogs.
https://studio-scott.it

Andrew Spilsbury

Andrew Spilsbury makes boxes to the same patterns and methods that the Shaker community used 200 years ago. He says; I make these boxes by hand, using North American cherry and maple, two of the timbers used by the Shaker communities. The wood is sourced from sustainably managed forests. The bands are held together by copper tacks made on some of the original machines and imported from the USA.
https://www.devonartistnetwork.co.uk/artists/andrew-spilsbury

Javier Ternero

Javier Ternero uses, for the photographs, six and a half by eight and a half inches sheet film. Once the film is exposed and developed, the negatives are printed by contact, exposing them to the sun, using some of the processes used during that time such as Albumen, Cyanotype, Palladium or
 Van Dyke.
Javier works with nineteenth century exposure, development and printing techniques because those processes match how he sees people, landscapes and buildings. He’s working on an ongoing project about nineteenth century Scottish architecture, the importance of these buildings in the contemporary landscape and how they still sustain the character and idiosyncrasy of many Scottish cities and landscapes nowadays.
https://javierternerophotography.com/home.html