'Meet the Artists' Selection of Our Artists Work
Effie has had a life long interest in art and following retirement has had time to pursue her interest. She has had no formal training but attends weekly art classes at Art4You in Killearn.
She will try anything which inspires and excites her with a bold, slightly contemporary style with a love of bright colour, light and drama. Anything from landscapes and dramatic skies to farm animals. Her usual mediums are acrylic and pastel.
Kerry Lindsell, Artist
Kerry is a wildlife and pet portrait artist. Creativity and animals have always been at the heart of who she is. After earning her Fine Art degree at Duncan of Jordanstone, and enjoying an early solo exhibition, life pulled Kerry in a different direction, and she spent several years running a dog walking business - still finding small ways to express her creative side. A simple request for a pet portrait in 2023 unexpectedly reignited her love for drawing and she returned to the comfort of graphite and charcoal.
Today, Kerry works as a pet portrait and wildlife artist, capturing the character and spirit of the animals people love most. Alongside commissions, she has embraced teaching through workshops and weekly classes, sharing the techniques and joy of drawing. Reconnecting with her art has opened up her world again, letting her re-explore old materials, deepen her style and rediscover the playful, expressive side of creating.
Mike Cordner, Boxclever
After more than 20 years of semi-professional furniture making, Mike now focuses on crafting an elegant range of jewellery, trinket and keepsake boxes at his Braco based home studio. Using primarily native Scottish hardwoods, he creates unique, beautifully finished solid wood boxes designed to hold cherished possessions. All the timbers used are sustainably sourced from accredited suppliers and may be from managed woodlands or from trees that have fallen or which need to be felled on safety grounds.
Around 15 years ago, after a break of almost forty years, Mike also rekindled his passion for painting. Working mainly with pastels, he enjoys their versatility and expressive potential, specialising in seascapes and skies, while occasionally creating still life artworks as a way to refine his technical skills.
Ellie Bate, Artist
Ellie is a keen, year round, 'wild swimmer' and loves nature. This is where she gets most of her inspiration for her work using watercolour and acrylics. She also loves to collect natural materials such as pebbles, sand and shells which she uses in her paintings. She paints from feelings and experiences she had on her wild swimming adventures as well as using scenery to influence her work.
Margaret Fraser, Artist and Original Arts
Margaret makes objects from ceramics and paints them. She also paints onto pieces of fabric she finds here and there, then adds embroidery or slow stitching. She likes the feel of the material on her hands, so lovely and soft. After painting she carefully chooses the elements she is going to embroider, sometimes sewing on quotes or words that touch her too. In the winter months she works inside the house. But, as soon as the weather allows, she heads out to her cosy little workspace in the garden. She takes inspiration from great quotes, the incredible Scottish countryside, wild animals and the colourful threads she finds in little sewing shops.
Claire O'Kane, Artist
Claire is a self taught artist based in Dunblane, Scotland, where she works from her home. Inspired by the natural beauty of nature,
her paintings focus on landscapes and wildlife, with a particular fascination for the way light filters through trees.
working primarily with acrylic paints on canvas, Claire aims to capture fleeting moments in nature - the glow of sunlight, the quiet atmosphere of woodland, and the subtle movement of the natural world.
Through her art, Claire invites viewers to pause and appreciate the calm, beauty, and energy found in everyday natural
scenes.
Yani Homphray, Artist
Hillofbalgairartstudio@gmail.com
Yani was born and raised in Indonesia and
moved to the UK in 2005. Yani began learning to draw and paint at a very young age. Moving to the UK has given her more time to explore her art and develop her distinctive style. Capturing the
value of lightness and darkness effect on the subject, exploring the composition of colours, then choosing vibrant warm/cool fluid acrylic to create many layers with a bold and loose expressive
brushstrokes style of painting. A variety of subjects including landscape, nature and urban city, using Golden fluid acrylic and sometimes mixed media.
Liz Cairney, Greenloft Naturals
Handcrafted sustainable vegan body and home products - Greenloft Naturals provides an alternative choice to the mass produced, plastic, chemically polluted products. Liz has formulated a series of products that are natural, sustainable and have zero or little impact on the environment.
Using botanical extracts, nourishing skin oils and butters, she creatives cruelty-free and paraben-free products that nurture and care for skin. Her candles are individually crafted by hand and are made with Coconut and Rapeseed wax, free from Paraffin wax or scent
Ian Workman, Author
A six book series of 'feel good historical novels'. Ian's fascination of the social history of the twentieth century has driven him to write a series of books following 'The Fsherman's Daughter' as she battles through the social changes and events of that time. She is a very determined lady wanting to make a difference for women and the poor. She's certainly not one to consent to convention. Ian's aim so to inspire his readers making them smile with pleasure and fulfilment.
Ellie Kenny, Artist
Ellie is a self-taught artist originally from Bo'ness, who enjoys creating bright colourful paintings in a range of paints and materials.
Ellie loves a landscape but also has a fun range of Uncatrollable cats who are named after gins, her favourite tipple. Contact elly.kenny1@btinternet for enquiries/commissions
lynne@linpincrafts.com
Lynne McGill, LinPin Crafts
Lynne creates colourful and wistful needle felt landscapes, seascapes and characters by needle felting in 2D and 3D. In using the finest soft merino roving wools, speciality fibres and blends, including tussah and sari silk. The felt works are soft, colourful and unique. Adding to the blends this year are LinPin Highlands, Hebridean Sea and Sunset customised wool and silk blends
Sarah Hatton, Truly Trossachs
Cards, brooches, mounts, boxed pictures and gifts made with Sarah's natural collages.
Sarah loves pictures from nature. The woodlands and coastlines of Scotland provide a wealth of materials to create her individual work. Sarah lives in the Great Trossachs Natural Forest surrounded by lochs and glens full of moss, lichen, heather and wonderful seeds and leaves. The local sheep are a major wool source too.
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