Through exhibition spaces with thought-provoking impact, Arran-based conceptual artist Stephanie Province ponders important questions that address the human condition – that, ultimately, get us talking. But as for her Arran Open Studios offering for 2026, all is still ‘schtum’, discovers Emily Rose Mawson. Goatfell fills Stephanie Province’s workshop window, huge and magnificent in tendrils …
Read morePrintmaker Raine Clarke memorialises the feeling nature gives us through her exquisite monoprints. In her Whiting Bay studio, you can see what goes into the painstaking – and experimental – process, says our writer Emily Rose Mawson. “You will really like Raine Clarke, lovely person”, I’m told, before I set off for Whiting Bay one …
Read moreArran Open Studios preview exhibition Friday 11th July – Monday 14th July 2025 Inevitably, we get so preoccupied with setting up the exhibition that we forget to take photos. We have included some here to give a flavour of the preparation and the event. Any volunteers for that task next year?? There’s lots of planning …
Read moreWhen artist Faye Waterlow paints, the paintbrush, she says, to a certain extent takes over. Hers is an innate (and meanwhile highly skilled) talent rediscovered during a lockdown watercolour course. Now, her stunning layered paintings create a coral reef of colour in her Brodick studio, as Emily Rose Mawson discovers when she chats to Faye …
Read moreInspired by Arran’s patterns, textures and history, Arran Open Studios jeweller and painter Assja Solveiga Baumgärtner-Gaile plays with technique in creations made of sea glass, recycled silver and old electric wires, discovers writer Emily Rose Mawson. It’s a perfect spring day, the kind with puffy clouds and sun-dappled hawthorn blossom, when I drive the …
Read moreIn April, we Arran Open Studios, had our first exhibition on the mainland, in The Harbour Arts Centre in Irvine. The exhibition featured 61 artworks from 31 participating artists from Arran. The idea behind this venture was to raise the profile of the AOS weekend and the profile of Arran’s visual arts and crafts …
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