Five Artists, Kilmorack Gallery, by Beauly, Inverness-shire IV4 7AL kilmorackgallery.co.uk Until 20 May
THE Kilmorack Gallery near Beauly has long provided a showcase for artists who plough their own particular furrow. In this new spring exhibition, gallery owner Tony Davidson has been beguiled by the zesty colour and poetic purity which springs from the work of Glasgow-based painter, Annette Edgar.
Edgar is now in her 70s but in this new series of paintings, Spring Dance, based around her observations of everyday street life, she is pushing out with all the energy of a child viewing the world afresh. This combination of maturity with an ability to pare back to the essentials is a powerful concept and Edgar has the skill and emotional intelligence to make it sing.
There are four other painters with work on show in this quirky space; once the old Kilmorack Church.
Allan MacDonald has been exhibiting his powerful impasto landscapes for the last 20 years at Kilmorack Gallery and his most recent paintings capture impressions from a road trip north. The land has also acted as a muse for Ann Wegmuller, whose latest works, painted specifically for this exhibition at Kilmorack, were inspired by winter walks around her rural Perthshire studio.
Robert MacAulay's new series, Squeezed Trees and Communities, includes a new series of bright loose landscape, a series of apartment blocks or buildings which he has called 'communities', red tree paintings and other works which reflect our needs for wild spaces, even in the urban setting.
Stonehaven-based Colin Brown, brings an Euro-urban edge to the proceedings with his distinctive collages, one of which has been inspired by the Sex Pistols. In this latest group of ten paintings, he plays with space – both negative and positive – with a loose splashes of paint and a narrative which takes you as a viewer on a virtual city tour of his mind.
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