Changing Light:

featuring Cathy Wagstaff

13 June to 21 July

Our summer of featured artists continues with local artist Cathy Wagstaff with her solo exhibition “Changing Light”. Cathy’s collection of paintings was inspired by the special quality of the light between October and March in Scotland. She was inspired by the glow in the sky on her walks at dusk, and travels to Skye and the North West Highlands. She enjoyed painting the contrast of soft fluffy clouds against the textured foreground of waves and land mass. Cathy’s atmospheric paintings are a contemporary interpretation of light, capturing a sense of scale and the vastness and beauty of the natural world. She believes this has the power to lift your spirits. She tries to convey the essence, the vastness of the wild places she travels through. The sky is her constant source of inspiration. Playing with different ways to paint what it makes her feel, sometimes in a simplified, abstracted way, sometimes a more literal rendition of a place. What Cathy aims to convey with all her art material, whether in a sketchbook or on canvas, is her love of wide-open space. In short, how essential the beauty of the natural world is to the soul. Cathy’s devotion to the light is a metaphor for hope, although that’s not how she sets out to paint. It’s simpler than that: She paints what she loves.

The gallery favourites continue with new work from Lorna Radbourne’s stained, hot and painted glass, Seatree Argyll’s ceramics, Laura Wood’s wire trees and chicken wire sculpture and Angela Thomson’s Harris Tweed cookies and so much more…