Artmag April - May 08

Out of This World

In March of 2008 we recruited Spanish illustrator Max Hierro and invited everyone to the launch of the exhibition...It read like this.


I am pleased to invite you to our first ever exhibition with works by Spanish illustrator Max Hierro: "Out of this world"
It may not feel like spring has quite arrived yet, but Hierro's atmospheric illustrations are guaranteed to cheer you up!

The date is next Saturday 29th of March from 10.30 a.m until 12.00 p.m @ Joseph Pearce's Bar, in Elm Row, Edinburgh.
There will be coffee and, for the more adventurous of you, some cava compliments of the Spanish Consulate (from 11.00 am)

And if you missed Kelvin Burgoyne's exhibition @ Pearce's, you have another chance to see his amazing watercolors.
"High Summer Storm Over..." will be on display at our new venue, the Jazz Bar, in Chambers Street
until the 15th of May.

See you next Saturday!!

Contemporary Cave Paintings

In February 2008 we launched an exhibition with new paintings by Edwin Slater.
A stunning collection of works that have been varnished and fired again and again to adquire an almost sculptural, 3 dimensional quality and challenge the past of time.

The Craig
Mixed media
40 x 40 cm



Stobbs in the Water
mixed media
40 x 40 cm

Rockpool Point

Mixed media
40 x 40 cm.
framed

OUT OF CONTEXT Newsletter December 2007

If you always thought that watercolour is all about
pale, subtle shades and that Christmas is about snow
scenes…
Here comes an exhibition to make you think twice!!!!!
Delicartessen.co.uk & Pearce’s Bar
Invite you to the Preview of:
“High Summer Storm Over...”...in the search for watercolour splendor
By awarded artist Kelvin Burgoyne
Below "High Summer Storm over Devon". Watercolour, 72 x 60 cm


I know that, at this time of the year,
an exhibition called “High Summer
Storm over…” is completely out of
context.
As a Sociologist, I was once very interested in Structuralism,
Semiotics… and the way the social context conditions our
expectations and reactions.
Take a work of art out of the context of a formal museum or
gallery and some of the barriers are removed; we feel more
relaxed about discussing it, and more able to relate to the
piece. It becomes closer, something more familiar and less
imposing.
Now that we have 4 venues to exhibit works in Edinburgh
and one in Glasgow in this our first year, we can be happy
that the artists we promote have taken a step forward to be
part of our cities’ landscape. And we hope to keep on
reaching a growing audience of highly aesthetically aware
people who once thought contemporary art had nothing to
offer them.
In the coming year we plan to improve the website which
will allow it to become a dynamic link with both clients and
artists. We would like art to touch every day lives, to be an
object, not only of desire but also of inspiration,
engagement and communication.
To all of you whose faces I have seen regularly at our
previews, thank you for your support, feedback and
encouragement. To those we haven’t managed to seduce
yet, there is a last chance in 2007, and it will be a refreshing
one.
Sometimes you have to expect the unexpected…even at
Christmas.
See you next Wednesday!

Artmag Dec 07- Jan 08

Article: "Collecting at a Click" (oct-nov 07)

In October 2007 Artmag published our article "Collecting at a Click" in their October - November issue

From People & Places

"Drinker Granada" by Ronnie Buchan.
Oil on canvas. 30 x 30 cm.

...was the title of an exhibition celebrated at a local Health Clinic in Edinburgh and launched on the1st of November 2007.

It included work by German artist, Sigrid Acker and Scottish artists Ronnie Buchan, Jacqui Higgs and Jane Mitchell.
The event coincided with the clinic's 3rd anniversary and included tapas and live music for a truly relaxed celebration. The exhibiton featured works of remote (and not so much so...) places as seen and captured by the contributing artists.

Hosting the exhibition in a Clinic was quite an experience and it is still a an idea in our agenda for future events.
The links between art and health are fascinating and never ending.
The Autumn-Winter 2010 newsletter published by CHAS (Children's Hospice Association Scotland) is titled "Music is the Best Medicine". It provides evidence, through a series of personal, heart-warming stories, of the amazing effects of music in children with learning disabilities. It underlines the idea that "where words fail, music speaks". And I am of the opinion that the same is to be said of the visual arts. An increasing awareness of the effects that colour, shape, texture and, in summary, all sensory experiences have in our mood could partially be the effect of our tuning with the interior design industry; but science has always been much more cautious when it comes to establishing cause-effect relationships between the stimulation of our senses and the results in our health. Despite this, the emergence of studies related to Art Therapy and the demand for these professionals seems to indicate that we somehow start to assume the association between exogenous and intrinsic processes, even if scientific evidence is still limited in scope In this sense, art, both related to our ability to enjoy it; and our ability to communicate through it; have an effect in our quality of life and general health.

This exhibition filled the clinic space with visual memories of holiday landscapes, blossoms and sunny, relaxing times. We hope that it contributed to creating a healing mood; where health is not strictly related to body and the prevention of illness but especially to happiness, enjoyment and a healthy balance between body & mind.

Below:"Buganvilles" by Sigrid Acker, 53 x 73 cm. Oil on board