Exploring Monotype

Exploring Monotype

Changed places, instead of being the teacher I have become the student. Taking a series of workshop with my good friend, painter and printmaker  Kate Downie in her beautiful garden studio in Fife. I have been experimenting with monotype. It is always very challenging...
Edge of the Ocean at the 179th Annual RSA exhibition

Edge of the Ocean at the 179th Annual RSA exhibition

RSA Annual open Exhibition. 6th may – 11June 2023. I am delighted to  have had Edge of the Ocean selected for the RSA 197th Annual Exhibition at Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh. The work is one of my wall sculptures constructed of re-purposed plastic. The...
A summer experimenting in the studio

A summer experimenting in the studio

Re purposing materials for my art. Taking a break form teaching over the summer to experiment with some new ideas. I have always found beauty in left over and discarded materials. There is beauty in the ordinary. Brown packing paper, the wire spiral from notebooks,...
Shifting Tide at the Blue Egg Gallery, Wexford

Shifting Tide at the Blue Egg Gallery, Wexford

Shifting Tide, exhibition of contemporary tapestry at the Blue Egg Gallery, Wexford, Ireland Exhibition runs until the 23rd April 2022. For more information 053-9145862, mary@blueeggallery    
The Cordis Tapestry Prize. 23rd October – 17th December 2021 I

The Cordis Tapestry Prize. 23rd October – 17th December 2021 I

The Cordis Tapestry Prize. 23rd October – 17th December 2021 Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh I am delighted to have been one of 18 International, tapestry artists selected for the Cordis Tapestry Prize 2021. An exhibition of the selected...