ART GALLERY
MARY ANN ROGERS
ALLAN LAWSON
Deeside Landscapes
Born in Glasgow, quite a long time ago, the prize-winning painter, Allan Lawson, has lived in Finzean for 30 years, where he also has his studio.
Educated at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, he gained both post-graduate and Hospitalfield House Scholarships, also was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Residency to Orkney and an artist’s grant to help found his exhibition in London University.
Perhaps best known for his large lyrical abstract paintings, Allan also loved to paint local landscapes, particularly incorporating the River Dee. (Allan is a passionate fly fisherman and an accomplished salmon fly tyer.)
JOHN PAUL RAINE
John Paul Raine has exhibited his paintings in the Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Gallery Heinzel, The Lost Gallery, The Riverside Gallery, Eion Stewart Fine Art, the Whitehouse Gallery and in the Aberdeen Artists annual exhibition.
Along with Charles Birnie, he was a founder member of the Traditional and Decorative Arts Group, which put on an exhibition in Aberdeen Art Gallery in 1992. A fellow exhibitor and supporter of this project was Malcolm Appleby, the world renowned silver engraver. The exhibition received excellent reviews in the national press and was featured on television’s North Tonight programme.
He has lectured in life drawing on an ad hoc basis at Aberdeen College, and was for ten years the art teacher at Roervig Folkehoejskolen in Denmark.
CARINE EUNSON
Carine Eunson is an artist residing in North East Scotland. She graduated in 2000 with an honour’s degree in Fine Art - Printmaking from Gray’s School of Art. After graduating, she spent three years living in Malaysia where she found the intricate patterns within the designs fascinating, as often images are made up from patterns on the fabric.
Carine’s wood engravings and linocut prints are inspired by the nature of the Aberdeenshire countryside.
In 2018 Carine submitted an engraving ‘A Thousand Stories’ to the Society of Wood Engravers Annual Exhibition, this work was not only selected but won the Rachel Reckitt award and is now part of the Ashmolean Museums permanent collection.
CATHERINE RAYNER
Catherine employs the use of subtle colour and tone whilst playing with scale, composition and open space to create paintings and silk-screen prints of animals.
Her creatures are brought to life using spontaneous and vivacious line that explores movement and personality. With effortless flow Catherine's artwork explores the natural habitat and beauty of creatures many of us take for granted. Facial expressions illustrate curiosity whilst the animals' postures suggest that they have simply strayed into the frame and might just as easily leave it again.