Summer Stories and Collecting

We’re delighted to present Summer Stories & Collecting – a seasonal celebration of colour, memory and imagination, showing across both our galleries in Crieff and Glasgow.

This exhibition brings together a diverse collection of work by our gallery artists, offering unique reflections on summer through landscape, light, and personal perspective. From breezy coastlines and sweeping mountain views to bold abstracts and intimate still lifes, each piece tells its own story. A selection of off-season works also feature, adding contrast and depth to the show.

Whether you’re adding to a collection or or simply seeking a moment of inspiration, we warmly invite you to visit and enjoy the exhibition.

21st June – 31st August 2025

The Day Returns   |  12 x 24 inches (30 x 61 cm) |  Acrylic & Collage on panel |  £1950

‘Sticks and Stones’  |  48 x 24.25 x 2 inches (122 x 62 x 5 cm) |  Acrylic, Mixed Media and Collage on Panel  |  £3600

Three Days |  19 x 24 inches (48 x 61 cm) | Acrylic & Collage on Board |  £2500

Passing Storm |  23.75 x 20 inches (60.5 x 45.6 cm) |  Acrylic, Mixed Media & Collage on Panel |  £2200

Nocturne  |  12 x 18 inches (30 x 46 cm)  |  Acrylic & Mixed media on Box Panel  |  £1500

BOLDLY GO

An Exhibition of Works by Six Brilliantly Bold Artists

Christopher Wood, Rowena Comrie, Pascale Steenkiste, Georgia Wolfson, and Alison McWhirter

26 April – 31 May 2025

Down the Other Air   |  18 x 48 inches (46 x 122 cm) |  Mixed media on box panel |  🔴 Sold

‘Broken Tide’  |  30 x 24 inches (76 x 61 cm) |  Mixed media on Panel |  £2800

‘Between Tides’  |  16 x 24 inches (41 x 61 cm) | Acrylic & Collage on Panel |  £2800

‘Broken Days’  |  6 x 8.25 inches (15 x 21 cm)  |  Acrylic & Collage on Panel  |  🔴 SOLD

Foreshore |  12 x 24 inches (30 x 61 cm) | Acrylic & Collage on Panel |  £1950

Paisley Art Institute 136th Annual Open Exhibition

‘Inside Out’  | 12 x 24 inches ; 30 x 61 cm | Mixed Media & Collage on Panel |  £1950

NEW VOICES

Newly-elected RGIs

5th April – 28th April 2025

‘The Weather Turned Around’  |  20 x 18 inches (51 x 46 cm) |  Mixed media on Panel |  £2400

ANCIENT SONGS

NEW WORK at Kilmorack Gallery

14th March – 12th April 2025

‘Through the Air to the Sea’  |  12 x 24 inches (30 x 61 cm)  |  Mixed media on Board  |  SOLD

‘A Clatter o’ Birds’  |  36 x 48 inches (91 x 122 cm) |  Acrylic on Box Panel |  £4800

‘Ancient Songs’ gallery interior

‘Wintry birds’  |  30 x 36 inches (76 x 91 cm) | Mixed Media on Panel |  £3600

‘A Corner of the Wind’  |  30 x 36 inches (76 x 91 cm) |  Mixed Media & Collage on Panel |  £3600

‘Look Again’  | 336 x 27 inches (91 x 69 cm)  |  Acrylic & Mixed media on Box Panel  |  £3200

‘Ancient Songs’ with Lotte Glob ceramics

‘Their Voices Fading Away’  | 39.25 x 27.5 inches (100 x 70 cm) | Mixed Media & Collage on Panel |  SOLD

‘Tide Lines’  | 20 x 30 inches (51 x 76 cm) |  Acrylic, Mixed Media & Collage on Panel |  £2700

‘If it was Raining Still | 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm) | Mixed media on Panel |  SOLD

‘The Sliding Sea | 25 x 15 inches (64 x 38 cm) | Acrylic on Panel |  £2500

‘Pooling Tide | 12 x 12 inches (30 x 30 cm) | Acrylic on Panel |  £1250

Christopher Wood: Ancient Songs, Kilmorack Gallery ★★★★☆

In an 18th century church at Kilmorack just outside Beauly in Inverness-shire, Tony Davidson has now clocked up 27 years of running a contemporary art gallery, and in that time he has built up an enviable stable of mainly Scottish artists.

Currently, the main show at Kilmorack is by Christopher Wood, but there is always a mixture of work in the building including, at the moment, some wonderful animals by Helen Denerley and a group of impressively atmospheric watercolours by Shetland-based Peter Davis.

While Davis captures ocean, cliffs and weather with a kind of expressive minimalism, Wood has become, in his later work, a true abstractionist. Questions like “what does it look like?” and “what does it mean?” bounce back unanswered. Yet, seeing a group of his paintings together, one starts to see their structure, the way the colours balance one another, and how thick brush strokes are tempered by finer work.

There is a tension – the good kind – between expressiveness and control, a specificity which comes from persevering at the easel until the thing feels right.

The titles are often poetic: Drop of Dusk, A Corner of the Wind, How Wonderful the Summer Was. And poetry is one way to understand them: like poems, they do not give up their meaning easily, but rather resonate in some mysterious way with the lived experience of the viewer.

Other titles here reference sound: The Noise Grew Softer, A Clatter o’ Birds, Their Voices Fading Away, and there is part of this which is akin to music. After all, the title of the show is Ancient Songs. It strikes a chord, one might say, of a painting one likes. It chimes. It resonates. It’s less about analysis and more about experience. But it’s still all about skill.