Tapestry weaver Leila Thomson and glass artist Alison Kinnaird are among this year’s invited artists at the annual exhibition by Visual Arts Scotland currently on at the Royal Scottish Academy Galleries in Edinburgh.

Both these artists explore the concept of life in their often figurative work.  Orkney based Leila reflects the various phases and rhythm of life using colour, shape and textiles while in Alison’s work the transparency of the glass enables her to add a spiritual dimension to the figures she engraves.

Visual Arts Scotland is one of the few organisations that actively promotes and exhibits the work of contemporary visual and applied artists creating a multi-disciplinary platform where painters, sculptors, jewellers, textile, stone and woodwork artists exhibit together. 

Several makers have won awards including furniture maker Roland Fraser, textile artists Sara Keith and Janet Andrew and jeweller Fraser Muirhead.

Other exhibitors include ceramicists Susan Basham, Janet Adam, Charlotte Cadzow, Cosima Sempill and Becca Wilson, furniture makers Michaela Huber and Sam Chinnery, glass artists Nichola Burns and Brodie Nairn and jewellers Teena Ramsay, Dianne King and Sarah Kettley.

The exhibition is on from 17 March to 12 April 2007 in the Upper Galleries, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, The Mound, Edinburgh.  Open Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 12 noon to 5pm.  Admission £4 (concessions £2) includes entry to exhibitions by the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and Society of Scottish Artists at same venue.  Find out more about Visual Arts Scotland.

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