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Season’s Greetings

Aileen, Cindie and Mairi would like to wish you all the compliments of the season. We have appreciated so much support from our friends and customers as well as from our artists and suppliers. We’ve had a busy December thanks to you all. Our two Xmas Shopping weekends have been busy and we had aContinue reading “Season’s Greetings”

Jonathan Shearer in June

Our Featured Artist for June is the painter Jonathan Shearer who is a frequent tutor for the Gallery’s ‘plein air’ workshops. He lives in Alness in Easter Ross and has a studio base there and in Cromarty Arts Centre. Jonathan graduated BA(Hons) Painting & Drawing from the School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen inContinue reading “Jonathan Shearer in June”

Featured artist: Alison Dunlop

Our ‘featured artist’ this month is Alison Dunlop RSW, a Canadian artist who has made Scotland her home – she lives and works in Opinan, near Gairloch. Alison works in both watercolours and oils, and describes these two strands of her work as follows: “Watercolours, of the moment: an essence of fluid, melting movement, atContinue reading “Featured artist: Alison Dunlop”

Thanks for everything

As we head towards the shortest day and midwinter celebrations, the Gallery is keeping its doors open. Thanks to you – our friends and customers – for getting us off to such a great start this year. And, most recently, thanks for making our Christmas Shopping weekend a success. It was great to see youContinue reading “Thanks for everything”

Autumn and Winter

We’ve gone on to Winter hours now – open on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11am to 5pm. But this doesn’t mean we’re having a rest. Far from it: we’re gearing up with new stock to satisfy your Christmas shopping needs. In fact, we’ll be open on Sunday 6th November 12-4pm for an extra session.Continue reading “Autumn and Winter”

Gifts and Art You Can Wear

We’ve been up and running now for a month (how time flies!) and all the time we’re increasing our range of gifts.We are stocking various candles and diffusers from the Isle of Skye Candle Company and also a variety of Skye Meadowsweet’s products including soap, handcream, shampoo and midge lotion. Under the heading of ‘thingsContinue reading “Gifts and Art You Can Wear”

Looking like a Gallery

Perhaps you can tell this was a butcher’s shop up until a couple of years ago – the blue and white colours are a bit of a give-away. It lay vacant for 18 months and the three of us were sad to see nothing happening here. But we’re fully up and running now, stocked withContinue reading “Looking like a Gallery”