Fortingall Art, Perthshire, Scotland. Set up in 2004 by a group of enterprising artists

Fortingall Art, set up in 2004 by a group of enterprising artists

Malize McBride

Malize McBride
Comelybank, Aberfeldy, Perthshire PH15 2EF
Tel. 01887 840355

Malize McBride is a Scottish painter and printmaker currently studying for an MFA at Edinburgh College of Art. Her main interest is in the physical nature of landscape and our responses to it.

Her work is represented by the House of Menzies Gallery, Aberfeldy, the DCA Printmakers workshop in Dundee and the Watermill Gallery in Aberfeldy where she held solo shows in 2006 and 2008.

Web sites: www.malizemcbride.com

www.aberfeldywatermill.co.uk

Jonas Noren

Jonas Norén was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1944. His passion for photography started at eight years of age, with a simple box camera. After choosing to invest in Leica rather than in a moped, his photographic work gathered momentum, acquiring the characteristic style we now recognise as typical for Jonas Norén. He was influenced by the Swedish Artist Anders Zorn and also the natural surroundings around Mora in Sweden, were he grew up. Through Jonas’s camera, themes inspired by the work of Anders Zorn are photographed with a sensitive touch, using the same Nordic light and authentic environments portrayed through an eye that has acquired a similar sense for these subjects as the great painter, who worked in the same areas around Mora.

Sheila Noren

Sheila Noren was born in Scotland and grew up in London where she received the greater part of her artistic education. Her creative talent has come from her grandfather, a well-known scottish architect and artist who remains a strong presence in her life. Sheila’s development as an artist reflects an ongoing inner journey with many mystical encounters and her paintings tend to touch the borderland between dream and reality. She also has a deep fascination for the Scottish landscape with its ever-changing moods and colours.

katereddy@hotmail.co.uk

Catherine Reddy

Catherine Reddy grew up in a family of artists and gardeners. Their influences on her life are evident in her lifelong interest in art and the subjects of her paintings and drawings which are almost always flowers and gardens.

katereddy@hotmail.co.uk

Maryann Ryves

maryann@uk2.net

Maryann Ryves
The Old Manse, Weem, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, PH15 2LD
Tel. 01887-820284

Maryann Ryves paints mainly in oils, her paintings being inspired by Highland Perthshire and its ever changing landscape. She explores space and depth through the layering of images, colour and texture to produce contemporary paintings.

Web Site: Maryann Ryves

Audrey Slorance - (01887) 829370

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AUDREY J. SLORANCE
Claremont,Taybridge Road, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, PH15 2BH
Tel. (01887) 829370
Web Site: Audrey Slorance

Audrey has a B.A.(Hons) Degree in Printed Textile Design from the Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels, and has worked as a freelance Textile Designer for a number of years. Her artwork/designs have sold in the U.K., Europe and the U.S.A.

Recently she has concentrated more on painting, being inspired by Perthshire’s beautiful countryside and architecture. She paints from sketches and photographs taken of the locations. She paints in Gouache, Acrylic and Oil.

Audrey has exhibited paintings at Aberfeldy Gallery, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, the House of Bruar and Fortingall Art Exhibitions She has also undertaken several commissions for house portraits.

Sheena Stanbridge

Sheena is an artist who is challenged by the world around her. The wild landscape, the weather, shadows and light, the cry of the curlew and the colours and mood of the earth - these are significant things in her life. Each day their beauty and fragility bring new wonderment. In her work and being, Sheena tries to share and express her love of the natural world.

It is a task fraught with frustration for what mere mortal can create a more marvellous picture than the one surrounding her own cottage door?

She keeps trying though - and lives and works in a small cottage on the edge of a wood, close by the mighty river Tay. She uses many different media in her work and also teaches painting and drawing from home. She has a small studio attached to her home where some of her work is on show.

Web site: www.sheenastanbridge.co.uk

Tel: 01887 830254

Mob: 07563507798

Kate West

Kate West
The Steading
Croftinloan
Pitlochry
Perthshire
PH16 5TA
Tel. 01796 474255

Kate first became interested in painting at school in Aberdeen. She started selling her work in the late 80’s and has exhibited at the "Royal West of England Academy" and other galleries throughout the west of England.

Now based in Pitlochry, she is getting great pleasure from exploring the Highland landscape. She is a keen photographer and uses her camera to help capture her animal subjects. She enjoys painting "en plein air" when she can and is also interested in "abstraction". She has recently started working with "collage".

Kate started to make jewellery as a teenager and now her artistic background is obviously influencing her jewellery design and she is able to incorporate her flair for colour, texture and shape into very individual pieces. Her jewellery is also featured on the Pitlochry Tartan web site.

Her work is constantly evolving and she derives inspiration from natural forms such as fossils, shells, semi-precious stones, pearls, silk, tree-bark and the countryside as it changes from season to season.

	Zanna Wilson
	Zanna Wilson is an emerging artist, she works with a wide range of media though mainly beeswax, pigments, oil and ink. A landscape artist, it is elemental textures that excite her and her work reflects her changing environment which includes Edinburgh, Glen Lyon and the Outer Hebrides.