Land & Sea
Featuring the work of: Fee Dickson Reid, Ginny Elston, Beth Robertson Fiddes, Neal Greig RUA, Anna King, Sam MacDonald, Stephanie Mills, Patrick Mitchell & Pascale Rentsch RSW.
Our first exhibition in 2026 returns to a familiar theme – “Land & Sea” and brings together the work of 9 artists whose approach to land and seascapes varies greatly.
Fee Dickson Reid’s soothing seascapes of the East Lothian beaches are well known to visitors to the gallery as are the plein air painted coastal and river scenes from Ireland based Neal Greig. Neal has included 4 pieces from a trip to Skye last year.
Sam MacDonald now based in Aberlady, East Lothian but grew up on Lewis where his love of the landscape and fishing has informed his sculptural pieces set in resin.
Also locally based in East Lothian and no stranger to the gallery is Pascale Rentsch. Recently elected to Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW), Pascale’s mixed media landscapes, created plein air in all weathers, really captures the beauty of the countryside on her doorstep.
Stephanie Mills and Patrick Mitchell have both exhibited before at the gallery but on previous occasions the pieces included were portraits. Stephanie’s work, both her portraiture and landscape, is quite precise, representational but with a beautiful sense of calm and stillness.
Patrick, a recent graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee, works in a far looser and abstracted style so offers an interesting contrast to the more representational artists in the exhibition.
New to the gallery, Ginny Elston’s landscapes are created in the studio from the memories of the light, colours and space experienced when outside. Loose brushstrokes and harmonious colour balance translate the sensations of warmth and light and in the landscape.
Also showing with us for the first time, Beth Robertson Fiddes’ work is well known to gallery visitors throughout Scotland. Incredible seascapes bursting with atmosphere, movement and colour, all bathed in a light of such intense clarity.
Finally, another artist I have admired for years and delighted to be showing her work here in Gullane, is Anna King. Anna finds the beauty in the forgotten, discarded strips of land on the periphery of urban life. Field edges and decaying buildings from another time, overgrown and neglected.
What a line up. All exhibit their work extensively across Scotland and all are enthusiastically collected… a great selection of artists to open the 2026 schedule.
Opening at 11am on Saturday 14 February with refreshments and a chance to meet the artists between 2 and 5pm.
