#WorldEmbroideryDay

Celebrating World Embroidery Day today with these exquisite Portuguese slippers by an unknown artist.  An example of the treasure to be discovered within the Needlework Development Scheme. The scheme was a collaborative program between industry and art education, that was set up to encourage and initiate a new standard for British embroidery design in both

Myths and Fables

  Born in Aberdeen in 1952, Ian Howard RSA studied at Edinburgh College of Art (1970 – 1975). Howard’s practice includes painting, drawing and printmaking and follows themes such as art and science, alchemical symbolism, hermeticism, emblems, medieval and renaissance iconography. In the 1980s Howard taught Painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, and he

Myths and Fables

This detail of a delightful illustrated walk through the gardens of Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire takes the form of an arch window bordered with ivy and split into 9 panes, with each pane depicting a different part of the castle and gardens.  All that is missing is the Green Lady Ghost of Crathes but we

Myths and Fables

  Artist statement: I am interested in myth and folklore as subject matter. These old stories can be used as a parallel between contemporary human values and those of the past – they suggest a sense of communion with our history while at the same time serving as a metaphor to depict the realities and

Myths and Fables

  Will Maclean RSA is internationally recognised as a foremost exponent of box construction art.  We always find his work to be inspirational and it brings to mind legends of sea going creatures, mermaids, kraken, as giant tentalcles consume passing sailing ships. Using found objects Maclean reconstructs and juxtaposes components which reference   the histories and

Myths and Fables

In his  suite of prints entitled Heretical Diagrams, artist Ian Howard explores the theme of ideas in opposition: orthodoxy and heresy, magic and reason, order and disorder. The ‘opposition’ is found in both the imagery and the form of the prints. On the one hand the compositions are frontal, symmetrical, diagrammatic and describe clear unequivocal