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ART HOUSES
Mike KinaneMike likes to work directly in an expres-sive manner in oil, acrylic, pastel or watercolour. His paintings show his love of experimental mark-making, with paint often applied with pieces of card, palette knives and brushes and his excitement in using vibrant colours, applied boldly. mikekinane.co.uk [email protected]
artwalkporty.co.uk \ @artwalkporty \ #assemble
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10 Queens Bay CrescentOpen: 4/5Sept only
Jane MurrayMurray’s work considers her immediate environment. A painter, working in oils on wood and panels that are re-claimed and recycled, she makes pieces which are in-triguing and evocative. The exhibition will be in an out-side space.Inst. @Janehodsdenmurray1 [email protected]
GF Coillesdene House,1 Coillesdene Drive
Amy DennisAmy’s practice consists of painting landscape and objects, both observed and imagined, using innovative techniques and experimental materials. These pieces will be shown in her beautiful home studio, which is designed to also work as an exhibition space.amydennis.net [email protected]
63/1 Morton Street
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Sats 4+11
Sept
Art Walk Hub
@189 Portobello High St
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Tanifi ki44 Portobello High St1
A regular swimmer in Portobello’s waters, Louise exhibits a collection of paintings drawing upon our seas and oceans. From sparkles on the surface to microscopic life forms below; fragile treasures in nature.louiselacaille.com [email protected]
Miro’s Pantry215 Portobello High St2
Katy’s atmospheric paintings are made with layers of abstract, geometric shapes. Depth is built through textured brush work, fi nished with subtle marks and glazes. Her work draws inspira-tion from the colours and lines of the dramatic Scottish coastline. [email protected]
Skylark241-243 Portobello High St
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Janet has an interest in the natural world and the ways we observe and interact with landscape. She explores in this show ideas of making, listening and the observing of environments through 3 strands of work: Tools, Podcasts, & Networking. All created during lockdown they respond to connections with place. janetmelrose.com [email protected]
Malvarosa262 Portobello High St
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Summer at The Velvet Easel Gallery – a mixed exhibition showcasing the work of over 100 talented artists, and featuring a wide range of paintings, prints, glass, ceramics, jewellery, gifts and [email protected]
Velvet Easel298 Portobello High St5
Susan HarveyMiro’s Prom25 Promenade6
Zoe KeanZoe’s work explores the Scottish landscape through etchings, monoprints, paintings and collographs. Inspired by wild places, she builds up highly textured and dynamic layers in her pieces to create vibrant images.zoekean.weebly.com [email protected]
James KeanJames is a designer/ maker of wooden art and craft work as well as an inventor of mechanisms.technocroft.co.uk [email protected]
27 33 Esplanade Terrace
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Visit ourArt Walk Hub@ 189 Portobello High StreetCome & See the‘Assemble’ show, join walks & pick up themain map+guide
4/5 + 11/12 SEPT 2021 - OPEN SATS 10am-6pm SUNS 11am-5pm
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Rebecca Stuart - Location 7Coast Cards Community ProjectA participatory arts project developed over the nine day
period inviting the public to create ceramic postcards with
reference to the Victorian seaside holiday, with works made
& installed for the second weekend.
(Book in advance)Sat 4th Sept, 1 & 4pm
Sarah Knox - Location 9Artist Talk: Making Connections
drawing upon Sarah’s recent processes and working practices.
Suns 5 & 12 Sept, 2pm
Robin Baillie - Location 15Performance- DITCHBURN: Loudhailer
Robin Baillie (from the avant-garde music duo DITCHBURN)
will be reciting poems which address the aesthetics
of inequality.Sat 4 Sept, 2-2.30pm
Peter Jones - Location 17Outdoor Children’s Workshop
Open to 7-10 year olds with a maximum of 8 participants, with
brief intro and demonstration of watercolour, a guided subject
inspired by the adjacent garden. (Book in advance)
Sat 11th Sept, 11-12
Most Art Houses are open both
weekends, unless stated:Sats 10am-6pmSuns 11am-5pm
Some art houses are also open during the week, by appointment.
Individual variations are
noted alongside each venue.
Check website for all the latest information:
artwalkporty.co.uk
Guided Walks with Alexander (Twig) Champion
Friendly, social walks around Portobello, guiding participants to points of interest and having
informal conversations around what we see. Seeking to create a
calming, meditative experience, poetic readings about the
surrounding landscapes will also be read.Sat 4th Sept, 4-5pm
(West & Central studios)& Sun 5th Sept, 3-4pm
(Joppa studios)Starting from Art Walk Hub
189 Portobello High St
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Open studio includes some outdoor aspect
Open studio is also open during the week mon-fri 6th-10th by appointment only. Please email the artist to arrange.
Disabled or part-disabled access.
Covid Guidelines
A Delicate Balance refl ects on the artist’s awareness of the fragility and transcience of life. Using a vocabulary of images developed over many years, Susan’s paintings reference things and places seen and felt. The sea, particularly the west coast, have a central focus in her [email protected]
Louise Lacaille
Katy Sawrey
Montse HerreraJanet Melrose
2021 ART WALK LOCAL SPONSORS
Through paintings and works on paper, Montse searches for ways to make tangible the intangible. She explores the depiction of space and atmosphere, as well as relationships between landscape, body, feelings and memory. [email protected]
ArtWalk
Porty
Art Walk Porty is committed to keeping both our artists and our visitors safe. At our venues, please be prepared to:• Follow any current Government
Covid Guidelines• Wear a mask• Sanitise your hands• Wait if the venue you want to
visit is at capacity• Use any one-way system the
artists may have in placeThank you for your cooperation with these guidelines – your compliance means we are able to go ahead with an in-person event this year! More info can be found on our website.
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Julia MacaulaySometimes restrictions make you look harder at what is near at hand. In this show, Julia is exhibiting work made in the last year exploring the pattern, colour and shape of the objects around her, in her lively multi-layered oil paintings. Inst. @[email protected]
Sarah KnoxImmerse yourself in Sarah’s exquisite watercolours and oil paintings. Based in Edinburgh, Sarah is renowned for her evoc-ative paintings of the Scottish landscape which capture a feeling of lost worlds through expressive atmosphere, light and [email protected]
Artist Talk: Making Connections Suns 5 & 12 Sept, 2pm
Kshema CooperKshema makes intriguing pieces exploring aloneness and isolation. Working from initial drawings, she then employs a range of techniques and mediums, including collage and print-making, to create poetic, subtle work. Inst. @[email protected]
Claire MacdonaldThis exhibition in Claire’s garden studio will include figure and portrait painting and printmaking in woodcut relief and screen-printing primarily on the subject of birds and wildlife photo-graphed locally and further afield. macavaggios.co.uk [email protected]
Teresa Gordon An exhibition of painting, installation and prints looking at the philosophy of imper- manence, searching for a visual representation that adequately describes the transitory nature of our lives and the environment we encounter. Using sunrises and sunsets as a metaphor for this, Teresa explores the impermanence and fragility of life. [email protected]
Sue Hudson CraufurdSue creates stained glass artworks for architectural installations, bespoke commissions, and decorative sculptural pieces. Her work conveys a love for the trans-formative joyful power of glass, bringing light, hope and colour into dark places.Fb. [email protected]
Rebecca StuartRebecca’s work in both painting and ceramics explores constantly recurring themes of the process of the Journey; loss, leaving, explor-ing, enduring, finding, being found, and faith which sustains throughout every storm or sunburstFb. @rebeccastuart.art [email protected]
Coast Cards Community Ceramic Interactive Project: Sat 4th Sept, 1 & 4pm (Book in advance)
Emily Peel YatesEmily’s work is made using chalk pastel, pen, pantone and water-colour. All her work was done in lockdown - local Portobello scenes across all seasons, weather, day and night. Some were inspired by local [email protected]
Dylan BellDylan uses images of well-known locations, architec-ture, pop-culture, and vintage magazines to make graphic hand cut pieces in screen print or spray paint. His work always has his signature colour key in the margin, showing the colours and layers that have been built up.(Exhibited in marquee in rear garden) bellsgalleries.co.uk [email protected]
Alison StewartAlison’s exhibition explores colour, form and composition in paintings of groups of functional and familiar domestic objects such as teapots and jugs. Her work includes mixed media collages, acrylic and oil [email protected] Daniel Killeen
Daniel shows his mix of jewellery making, silversmithing and visual art, in this transformed garage studio. Inspired by Scottish history and natural environment he makes work that reflects the experience of exploring Scotland’s landscape. danielkilleen.com [email protected]
16 Promenade
138 Portobello High St
130 Portobello High St
34 Brighton Placeenter from the wooden double side garden gate on Rosefield Place
16 Rosefield Place
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Greta McMillanGreta makes digital artworks using a Tobii ‘eyegaze’: a precise electronic device responsive to the human eye, recording movement, weight, duration and focus. During this year of lockdown, she has been focussing on a series of paintings inspired by the solar system and science fiction. studiogreta.co.uk [email protected]
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Bea McMillanBea is currently studying Sculpture and Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art and is exploring themes around food waste. Using plaster, mirrors, and inks made from food scraps, her pieces make the viewer aware of waste, and the impact it has on the planet.Inst. @b.mcmillan.art
20 8 John Street Lane West
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Alison RobinsonReduction lustre glazed ceramics using an updated method that has its origins in 12th Century Persia. The depth of colour and intense sheen is remarkable and Alison makes both small scale pieces and ambitious larger work.Fb. [email protected]
Jude NixonAn assemble of pieces based on lockdown studies reflecting diverse themes from a fascination with the patterns formed by fragments of coal on sand, to studies of a discarded thrush’s nest and finally a series of small paintings depicting melting sea ice.judenixon.co.uk [email protected]
21 Bath Street
Jane ChisholmAn exhibition of textiles shown in an outdoor space. A working Harris Loom and Ashford Spin-ning Wheel will be shown along-side lots of textile samples and work for sale using a wide range of materials and construction methods from traditional to the unconventional.janechisholm.co.uk [email protected]
13/1 Bath Streetentrance off Bath Street Lane
Robin Baillie‘Rag/Flag’ Robin’s collaged, textile banners are direct acts of protest against current ideological and aesthetic orthodoxy. They intervene in the present, whilst drawing on the avant-garde working-class radicalism of previous eras.tinyurl.com/atnfj83 [email protected]
Performance: Sat 4 Sept, 2-2.30pmDITCHBURN: Loudhailer - Robin Baillie (from the avant-garde music duo DITCHBURN) will be reciting poems which address the aesthetics of inequality.
15 11 Bath Street
Calum SmithThis exhibition is sited in a front garden; the non-traditional setting is reflected in the work being shown. Visitors will be able to take a jour-ney through Calum’s creative process; his abstract paintings inspire and influence each other, and he will show work from various stages of his crea-tive process.calumsmithart.com [email protected]
34 Regent Street16
Caroline ConveyDrawings, paintings and prints inspired by the animal kingdom, with a closer look at local wildlife. Caroline will also have a cormorant driftwood installation in the front [email protected]
18 36/2 Marlborough Street
Disabled access: garden only
The Ramp House, 9e Bellfield Lane An outdoor open art installation involving film projections, and response to Black Lives Matter.
Gardner MolloySandstone carver & sculptor, Gardner Molloy, will create a large scale stone sculpture in the front garden over the duration of the event, along-side exhibiting some finished works.gardnermolloy.co.uk [email protected]
Karl Stern Karl creates colourful paintings with a figurative or buildings in the landscape theme, often inspired from time spent abroad (France, Iceland, Portugal, Finland, Canada). Drawing with a knife he cuts into card, then paints with shellac and pig-ment, using this as a surface from which to make original handmade prints.sternbyname.com [email protected]
Javier VenturaJavier’s painting is closely related to the sea and the light. It is a symbolist, surrealist approach to tell stories and evoke [email protected]
71 Promenade
Jenny MartinBright ceramics, patterned tablecloths, sculptural plants are inspiration for Jenny’s recent prints and paintings. Finding new ways of working due to the pandemic, she is showing in her garden and studio, work based on her immediate environment: her house and garden and the local landscape. [email protected]
7 Esplanade Terrace
Mary WaltersMary is a visual artist exploring the Northern realms through printmaking and artist books. She is interested in ice in all its forms, and its dis-appearance from our planet, with work in development for COP26 in November.
Mary will also have a display of works inspired by daily walks on Portobello beach during lockdown.mary-walters.com [email protected]
4 Joppa Park
Disabled access through back lane Joppa Park
12Peter ByrnePeter begins his large scale paintings with the process of ‘active’ looking, not just ‘passive’ seeing. Back in his studio he sets down notions of what he has taken from the experience, developing these into working drawings before selecting one to scale up. The back garden will also be open for visitors. [email protected]
24 Bath Street
Peter JonesAn exhibition of work made during the past year: drawings and watercolours made on Marlborough Street; panoramic views from inside; daily walk discov-eries; Instant memory sea paintings; charcoal drawings; Craigmillar book paintings, all displayed in a unique converted [email protected]
Sat 11th Sept, 11-12Children’s Workshop - 7-10 year olds with a maximum of 8 participants, with brief intro and demonstration of watercolour, a guided subject inspired by the adjacent garden. Weather permitting heldoutdoors. Full details at website (Book in advance)
15 Marlborough Street17
John ThayersAbstract/geometrical, non- representational 3D/2D work using wood, recycled materials, metal, perspex, spray paint and acrylic paint. Paintings and collage using mixed media.shorelineartworks.co.uk [email protected]
26 31 Esplanade Terrace
Open: 4/5Sept only
Open: 4/5Sept only