Artist: David Shrigley
Title: Vibes
Medium: Screen print on paper
Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm
Year: 2018
Market Value: £3,500

Signed, numbered and dated by the artist on the reverse

Biography:
David John Shrigley OBE is a British visual artist. He lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland for 27 years before moving to Brighton, England in 2015.

Shrigley was born in Macclesfield and studied environmental art at Glasgow School of Art. After graduating he began publishing books of quirky, doodle-like drawings. As well as drawing incessantly, he photographs, makes sculptures and performs 'public interventions' which he then photographs for display. Shrigley consciously shuns the knowingness and commercial professionalism of much contemporary art, preferring a dysfunctional language of doodles, vandalism and graffiti. His work is infused with a dark, dry humour which highlights the absurdity of our everyday fears and aspirations.Recent exhibitions include those at GoMA, Glasgow (2015-2016) and Yvon Lambert Paris (2011). In 2012, London’s Hayward Gallery hosted Brain Activity, a retrospective of Shrigley’s work for which he was shortlisted for the 2013 Turner Prize.

Artist: Claire Barclay
Title: Untitled
Medium: Unique screenprint on paper, unframed
Dimensions: 42 x 60cm
Year: 2018
Market Value: £600

Signed on reverse.

Biography:
In her sculptures and installations, Claire Barclay explores different modes of making related to craft and industrial production, arranging common and precious materials in an intuitive, poetic way.

Claire Barclay was born in 1968 in Paisley, Scotland. She now lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.

Barclay is a leading figure in a generation of graduates from the Glasgow School of Art in the 1990s, a group of young artists studying in the city who rose to the fore of the contemporary art world. She has since been the subject of numerous solo presentations including Tate Britain, London (2004); Camden Arts Centre, London (2008); MUDAM, Luxembourg (2009); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2010) and Tramway, Glasgow (2017). She represented Scotland as part of the Scottish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Italy in 2003.

Barclay's hybrid sculptures are centred on the physical and the psychological tensions that exist between contrasting materials. They are at once recognisable and foreign, acting as a surreal reflection of the world around us by toying with formal associations. One of the key influences in her working practice is an ongoing fascination with historical and anthropological artefacts.

Artist: Andrew Cranston
Title: Museum Piece
Medium: etching on paper (artists proof - no edition)
Dimensions: 12.5 cm x 8cm ( image size); 38cm x 28.5 cm (paper size)
Year: 2016
Market Value: £500

Signed by artist.

About the work:
"This etching was from a series of one-off experiments made at Glasgow Print Studio. I printed this plate maybe 5 times in completely different ways each time, so each one was unique. Only three survived. It was made for an exhibition at Glasgow Print Studio ( October 2016) where invited artists were asked to respond visually to a Scottish novel. I chose 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' by Muriel Spark. The truism that "the book is better than the film" ( which I often dispute) is certainly true there. The book is great, the film not so great. Made in location in Edinburgh at the end of the 1960s, one scene especially caught my eye and instigated this image. It is of an outing to the museum in Chambers Street that Miss Brodie has taken the girls on. As I watched I started imagining a scene they could have had, a trick the director missed. I remembered the tiled pond they used to have at the entrance with fish in it, beautiful large black and gold fish gliding silently. I used to watch them entranced, so close and strange. I thought here of the fish conveying some sense of threat, like battleships and u-boats circling each other, and in the context of the novel ( the 1930s) a ominous portent of impending war."

Biography:
Andrew Cranston was born in Hawick in the Scottish Borders in 1969 and currently lives and works in Glasgow. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. He is represented by The Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh and Karma, New York.

Cranston is a storyteller of sorts, without a clear story to tell. His work is seductive in terms of its use of narrative and humour, but it is the humour of Samuel Beckett or Buster Keaton, always touching on the strangeness and pathos of ordinary life. He draws on a variety of sources, in particular his own personal history; questioning the veracity of memory. This autobiographical activity is combined with passages culled from literature, anecdotes and jokes, second hand accounts, images from cinema and observations of life. Often working directly onto hardback book covers his work is not pre-conceived but emerges through the manipulation of materials – paint, varnish, collage – and the suggestions that this activity provokes, layering and re-working the images until something essential coalesces.

As Liza Dimbleby has written in a recent essay “the images that are encouraged to surface are sometimes taboo; sex and solitude, death, nightmares – the ultimate questions, not without a sly humour.”

In 2014 Cranston was awarded the Arts Foundation fellowship.

Artist: David Nash
Title: Blue Shade
Medium: Pastel Stencil Print, 16/20
Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm
Year: 2019
Market Value: £800

David Nash (born in 1945 in Esher, England) lives and works in Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales. He has been a member of the Royal Academy since 1999. His work, which is widely present in the leading museums in Europe, America, Australia and Japan, has been the focus of retrospectives at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and at Kew Gardens, in England.

Artist: Martin Boyce
Title: Forest Fire (Touchpaper)
Medium: Laser cut paper
Edition: From an edition of 30, signed
Dimensions: 64 x 48,2 cm
Year: 2013
Market Value: £500

Biography:
Boyce was born in Hamilton, Scotland and studied environmental art at Glasgow School of Art from 1987 to 1990, before completing an MFA in 1997. He is interested in the ideals of modern design and architecture and how these have changed over time. While acknowledging the revolutionary ideas behind modernist design, Boyce examines the legacy of objects of classic design and their changed role today. His practice includes sculpture and installations and also wall paintings, fictional text and photography. In 2009 Boyce represented Scotland at the 53rd Venice Biennale with No Reflections and in 2011 he won the Turner Prize. Recent exhibitions include Devils in the Making, GoMA (2015); Martin Boyce. When Now is Night, RISD, Providence (2015) and Stellar Remnants, Johnen Galerie, Berlin (2014).

Artist: Christine Borland
Title: This Being You Must Create (Spy in the Anatomy Museum) - 4 Details
Medium: laminated cibachrome prints on perspex
Edition: 4 details from Edition 4/4
Dimensions: Four works each at 15.25 x 20.32 cm
Year: 1997
Market Value: £500

Signed on back.

About the work:
This Being You Must Create is an installation of eighty small images, developed from slides taken with a spy camera while pretending to draw in the Anatomy Museum of Montpellier in 1997. The work refers to collections of norms and pathodlogies exhibited in anatomy and natural history collections, and the 'wunderkamers' so popular in the 19th century.

Biography:
Christine Borland is an artist whose work explores our physical and psychological sense of self in relation to society’s institutions; of science, medicine, museology and academia. Over the last 30 years her work, which makes visible people and practices usually inaccessible to a general public, has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums and public spaces.

Christine lives and works from her studio in Kilcreggan, she was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1997, is a Professor of Art at Northumbria University, Newcastle and was awarded a D.Litt from Glasgow University/Glasgow School of Art

Artist: Callum Innes
Title: CI W 82 2013 Magenta Red / Helio Cerulean
Medium: Watercolour (framed)
Dimensions: 56 x 77 cm
Year: 2013
Market Value: £8500

Biography:
“Innes’ watercolours are embodiments of the medium’s luminous qualities and its ability to retain layers of distinct, translucent colour. In looking at the finished works we are able to read the process of their making and the nature of the material itself. They are not historical documents, nor do they evoke a recognisable past, but they hold within themselves a history. The colours, vastly different, nonetheless work together in sequence, moving from a beginning to an end. And each individual watercolour holds and reveals the physical evidence of its making, echoing the history of the medium and presenting its continuing possibilities.”

- From an essay written by Bryony Bond for the publication 'History Callum Innes’, published in 2013.

Artist: Barry McGlashan
Title: The Silence
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30.5 x 36.8 x 2cm
Year: 2017
Market Value: £3400

Signed and dated on reverse

About the work:
"This painting originally came about as a response to my feelings in the time running up to the huge decisions being made for our country surrounding Brexit. In selecting this work for the Emergency Art Workers Support Fund, I was reading the catalogue and found the accompanying text below more relevant than ever given the current situation we find ourselves in with artists becoming isolated not only from one another, but also often from their studios and work. However, art endures and is an extremely positive force, especially here given the aims of the auction to assist those artists who we all rely upon to speak of, and make sense of our times.

The influences of those famous photographs by Herbert Ponting of Captain Scott’s ill fated polar expedition are clear here - the tent sitting alone in this great white silence, a dying fire the only sign of life at this fading outpost of Empire. With recent events, it might also talk of where we may soon find ourselves: sitting in not so splendid isolation." - Barry McGlashan

Biography:
Barry McGlashan is a painter.

A significant part of his early work was informed by travel thanks to a number of scholarships and awards, most notably from The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.

This left him fascinated by the language and seemingly endless dialogues which exist throughout the histories of Painting. In response to that interest and love of lineage, and following on from his most recent exhibition at John Martin Gallery in London (2018), he was invited to exhibit his work in the historical studio of the Flemish Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens at the Rubenshuis Museum in Antwerp for a period of four months. The only contemporary artist to be included in the acquisitions and loan scheme, it was a career highlight.

His work has been exhibited extensively since graduating from Gray’s School of Art (Aberdeen) in 1996, with many paintings being held in public and private collections worldwide. He has also worked with institutions such as Aberdeen University, The Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh), Grays School of Art (Aberdeen) and The Mall Galleries (London) in various roles both in selection and judging but also as a mentor and in an educational capacity as a tutor at Grays School of Art between 1998 and 2005.

However, most important to him is that valuable time spent alone in the studio, painting.

He shows regularly with John Martin Gallery in London and also at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh.

Artist: Elaine Speirs
Title: Love Crash
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Dimensions: 23cm x 32cm
Year: 2020
Market Value: £1750

Biography:
Studied at Edinburgh College of At and Slade School of Fine Art.
Represented by Andgallery based in Edinburgh.

"My work is quietly political.
It is not at the front of the conversation with the audience.
Looking at my work you see love, and the ecstasy of these little moments of pure joy.
I am capturing a little moment."
- Elaine Speirs

Artist: Paul Keir
Title: Untitled blue painting
Medium: Acrylic and ink on polyester
Dimensions: 20 x 26cm
Year: 2016
Market Value: £

About the work:
First shown at solo show in “Everything here is plural”, Glasgow Briggait 2019.

Biography:
PAUL KEIR has degrees from the University of Aberdeen, and Edinburgh College of Art, where he also obtained his MFA.

He taught drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art for many years and has been awarded a number of grants from the Scottish Arts Council and other bodies. He has undertaken residencies in Switzerland, UK and America, and has exhibited widely, in the UK and further afield, including Inverleith House and the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh.

His work was shown in “ABJAD” at the Ingleby Gallery in 2015, and in “Curved Stream” at Traquair House, also 2015. He was Invited Artist at Visual Art Scotland at the RSA in Edinburgh in 2019, and later that year presented a solo exhibition, “Everything here is plural”, at The Briggait in Glasgow.

He makes walldrawings, paintings, objects, floorworks, and drawings: much of his work is centred on speculative tensions between improvised and formal elements, and is characterised by a spareness and frankness of means.

Artist: Otto Berchem
Title: Patients First
Medium: Gouache on Hahnemühle cotton rag
Dimensions: 30 x 43.5cm
Year: 2020
Market Value: £2,000

Signature details: Signed on back

About the work:
http://www.ottoberchem.com

Biography:
Born 1967 in Milford, Connecticut. Otto Berchem’s practice explores social and visual codes, focusing on the relationships between language, architecture, history, and poetry: interacting with past experiences, as well as specific sites within his current context of living in Colombia. With his recent work the artist continues his exploration of signs, human relationships and codes, through the creation of a chromatic alphabet. Berchem’s alphabet is inspired by the writings of Jorge Adoum and Vladimir Nabokov, 
as well as Peter Saville’s designs for the first three New Order albums, and the condition of Synaesthesia. Through this alphabet, Berchem proposes a series of works reviewing iconic images by recreating his own documents by strategically deleting pre-existing meanings and slogans, and replacing them with his own.

Berchem studied Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design in New York. He received his Masters in Paining at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, and continued his studies at the Rijksakedmie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Additionally Berchem has been resident at GECU, Trujillo, PE; Capacete, Sao Paulo; Platform Garanti, Istanbul; and at Yale Summer School for Music and Art, Norfolk, CT. He has participated in the 5th Beaufort Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, 4th Triennial of Contemporary Art Oberschwaben, 2006 EVA International, 2nd Biennial Tirana, and 4th Gwangju Biennale, 9th Istanbul Biennale. Berchem’s work has recently been presented at Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; Marres, Maastricht; NRW Forum, Dusseldorf; FRAC Grande Large, Dunkirk; Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Malba, Buenos Aires; De Apple, Amsterdam; Miró Foundation, Barcelona.

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Artist: Robert Montgomery
Title: The People You Love (Artist print of installation at the De La Warr Pavillion, 2010.)
Medium: Unframed Print archival inkjet on Hahnemühle etching paper
Edition: 10, signed and numbered
Dimensions: 70cm x 100cm
Year: 2018
Market Value: £1500

Biography:
Robert Montgomery is an internally renowned text artist. He works in diverse mediums- billboard pieces, light works, fire poems, woodcuts, paintings and watercolours. He was the British artist selected for the 2012 Kochi Biennale and the 2016 Yinchuan Biennale. Along with the architects Allied Works he was a shortlisted finalist for the UK National Holocaust Memorial in 2017 with the scheme exhibited at the V&A Museum in London. He has had solo museum exhibitions at Cer Modern in Ankara, and at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, and his work is hugely popular on the internet, the artwork "The People You Love Become Ghosts Inside of You" has been shared online more than 20 million times. His poetry collection "Coltash" was published by New River Press in 2016.
Dane Weatherman wrote of Montgomery's work, “To encounter the work of Robert Montgomery is to make a tender encounter whose tenderness is enhanced by the public, communal quality of his work. To encounter his work is to have your body filled with a sad thunder and your head filled with a sad light. He is a complete artist and works in language, light, paper, space. He engages completely with the urban world with a translucent poetry. His work arrives at us through a kind of lucid social violence. No one has blended language, form and light in such a direct way. "

Artist: Mary Morrison
Title: Composition
Medium: Oil/mixed media on paper
Dimensions: 30cm x 30cm
Year: 2013
Market Value: £500

Biography:
Mary Morrison is from the Isle of Harris, and her work is concerned with landscape, mapping and identity.

She is drawn to exploring the space and light which is particular to these islands and is led by the pursuit of ‘memory places’. Mary aims to evoke a sense of place through fluid paint effects which combine with graphic elements of annotation – grids, staves, elements of maps and abstract musical notation recur in her work.

Mary Morrison received a Joint MA (Hons) Fine Art from Edinburgh University & Edinburgh College of Art in 1991, followed by a Distinction at Post Graduate level from Edinburgh College of Art in 1991 for Drawing & Painting.

Now based in the Scottish Borders, Mary has a Wasps Studio in Selkirk, and works part time for Live Borders, delivering support to the creative sector in the region through the Creative Arts Business Network (CABN) which is part funded by Creative Scotland. CABN develops support for individual artists and creatives across all artforms as well as developing residencies and other initiatives – often through partnerships.

Mary is a Professional Member of the SSA and exhibits regularly. She had a recent solo show ‘Undertow’ at the &Gallery in Edinburgh in November 2019.

Artist: Andrew Mackenzie
Title: Shadow-Branches
Medium: Silverpoint and Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 32.5 by 23 cm
Year: 2014
Market Value: £

About the work:
"These were from a project from 2014 about The Ettrick Valley, collaborating with the poet Ken Cockburn - the Churchyard in Shadow-branches is where James Hogg is buried, who wrote Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The Scots Pine is based on an area called The Ettrick Marshes, and a line from Ken from his poem cycle Into Ettrick - 'The boardwalk bears us above the roots'."
- Andrew Mackenzie

Biography:
Andrew Mackenzie is a Scottish artist. He graduated with an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art in 1993, and lives and works in the Scottish Borders. His work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, and is represented in many collections. He is former president of Visual Arts Scotland.

Artist: Catharine Davison
Title: In the Light of Darkness
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: artwork 40 x 48 cm, 68 x 60 cm with frame
Year: 2016
Market Value: £950

Signature on reverse of painting board and back board of frame.

About the work:
First shown at solo show in “Light Lines, Night Shapes”, in the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh in 2017. An exploration mapping the expansive topography and world of the Pentland Hills into a more intimate physical world of green spaces, public places, waterways, the and suburban gardens in south Edinburgh surrounding her home in Oxgangs.

Biography:
Catharine Davison, originally from Northern Ireland, has been living in Edinburgh since 2007. She had degrees from Liverpool John Moores University and Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College of Arts where she obtained her Masters Degree.

She has taught drawing and painting in schools, colleges and Universities throughout the UK and she is currently the Painting Course Leader at Leith School of Art, Edinburgh. Catharine has been the successful recipient of awards for her work including the W. Gordon Smith Award and The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. She exhibits her work widely, her 4th solo exhibition, ‘The World Outside’ currently showing at the Open Eye.

Her practise is about a human need to be working directly from source within the landscape. A commitment to the plein air tradition has under pined her practice for 3 decades, being immersed in the present, enables her to honour each situation fully. Each work represents a form of perceptual truth/ reality, where the Interplay between formal experimentation and content is rooted in nature.

Biography:
Catharine Davison is a landscape artist based in Scotland whose work develops the ‘plein air’ tradition into a more contemporary visual language.

Catharine Davison grew up in Kilkeel, a market town in Northern Ireland. She studied at Manchester Polytechnic and then at Liverpool John Moores University before gaining a Masters degree in Illustration with Printmaking at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College of Art and Design. Davison lives and works in Edinburgh, exhibiting regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Edinburgh Academy, the Paisley Art Institute and Visual Arts Scotland. In 2014 she was announced the winner of the Lynn Painter -Stainers Prize for creative representational. Prior to this in 2009 she won the Cuthbert Award at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, her painting recognised as the most distinguished by a New Young Artist. In 2013 she was shortlisted for the Jolomo Foundation Award for Scottish Landscape Painting.

Artist: Susie Leiper
Title: Southern Upland Way II
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 34 x 25 cm
Year: 2015
Market Value: £550

Signature and handwritten details on reverse

Biography:
"Mountains are my passion and my inspiration. But in the winter they can be dangerous, so the Southern Upland Way is a good winter pursuit, offering gentler slopes and more agricultural landscape than the harshness of mountainsides. I was struck by this. Here the essence of the hillside is distilled to a minimum: hay bales are scattered randomly over the autumnal land, greener fields intrude and a brooding sky portends a deluge.

My ongoing work as a calligrapher demands concentration, tenacity and precision, so hiking and painting provide a welcome antidote to the tight preserves of lettering."
- Susie Leiper

Artist: Rowan Paton
Title: A Little Bit Lost
Medium: Acrylic, collage print on canvas
Dimensions: 100x100 cm
Year: 2019
Market Value: £2100

Biography:
"Employing collage, print, wordplay, and pattern, my work is characterised by the development of imagined visual space. This seeks to explore themes of environmental change, mental health and otherness. Landscape, and in particular, the mountain, provide a reference through which to explore these."
- Rowan Paton

Artist: Andrew Mackenzie
Title: Scots Pine (Boardwalk)
Medium: Silverpoint and Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 32.5 by 23 cm
Year: 2014
Market Value: £

About the work:
"These were from a project from 2014 about The Ettrick Valley, collaborating with the poet Ken Cockburn - the Churchyard in Shadow-branches is where James Hogg is buried, who wrote Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The Scots Pine is based on an area called The Ettrick Marshes, and a line from Ken from his poem cycle Into Ettrick - 'The boardwalk bears us above the roots'."
- Andrew Mackenzie

Biography:
Andrew Mackenzie is a Scottish artist. He graduated with an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art in 1993, and lives and works in the Scottish Borders. His work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, and is represented in many collections. He is former president of Visual Arts Scotland.

Artist: John Ayscough
Title: Keep The Heid
Medium: Gold neon
Dimensions: 360mm
Year: 2020
Market Value: £2000

Biography:
"Social justice, inequality and politics have been central themes throughout my art practice spanning almost 30 years. Art and politics make a formidable marriage that has enabled politically restless artists to challenge the status quo and agitate going back centuries. Although there are some exceptions, art still inhabits galleries and tends to engage the usual demographic suspects. Politics affect everyone and I regularly use trans-media and guerrilla tactics in public spaces and deploy engagement techniques appropriated from advertising and marketing in order to reach a broader audience. Using direct messaging, often text-based pieces, the work is in the tradition of conceptual art. Use of cardboard & other found/stolen materials and gold leaf are a constant in my studio base practise since 2013.

During my MFA (1992-4), I co-produced and curated numerous exhibitions at various galleries and disused commercial spaces around Edinburgh; culminating in the art show ‘Aerial ‘94’, the most ambitious artist-initiated city-wide exhibition Scotland had seen at that time.

In August 2019, I launched The REAL (at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen), a fictitious political party authentic in every way apart from being officially registered. Its structure resembles any other political party - importantly incorporating a new constitution. The manifesto will be influenced through conversation and consultation with individuals and groups across the UK. Over the next 12 months.

I have exhibited widely in the UK and abroad since 1992."
-John Ayscough

Artist: John Ayscough
Title: Perimeter (Fuck British Xeno-Racists)
Medium: 24 karat gold leaf on white acid free paper, unframed
Dimensions: 297mm by 297mm
Year: 2020
Market Value: £100

Biography:
"Social justice, inequality and politics have been central themes throughout my art practice spanning almost 30 years. Art and politics make a formidable marriage that has enabled politically restless artists to challenge the status quo and agitate going back centuries. Although there are some exceptions, art still inhabits galleries and tends to engage the usual demographic suspects. Politics affect everyone and I regularly use trans-media and guerrilla tactics in public spaces and deploy engagement techniques appropriated from advertising and marketing in order to reach a broader audience. Using direct messaging, often text-based pieces, the work is in the tradition of conceptual art. Use of cardboard & other found/stolen materials and gold leaf are a constant in my studio base practise since 2013.

During my MFA (1992-4), I co-produced and curated numerous exhibitions at various galleries and disused commercial spaces around Edinburgh; culminating in the art show ‘Aerial ‘94’, the most ambitious artist-initiated city-wide exhibition Scotland had seen at that time.

In August 2019, I launched The REAL (at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen), a fictitious political party authentic in every way apart from being officially registered. Its structure resembles any other political party - importantly incorporating a new constitution. The manifesto will be influenced through conversation and consultation with individuals and groups across the UK. Over the next 12 months.

I have exhibited widely in the UK and abroad since 1992."
-John Ayscough

Artist: Emily Bates
Title: The Sky Is Glowing With The Setting Sun #7
Medium: Hand printed colour photograph
Edition: 50
Dimensions: 19 x 24cm
Year: 2012
Market Value: £200

Signed on reverse and / or signed and numbered sticker
Biography:
Emily Bates studied Textiles at Glasgow School of Art, 1990-93. She has been based
in Amsterdam since being awarded the Scottish Arts Council Amsterdam Artist in
Residence in 1997/98, where photography became a prominent part of her practice.

Offerings from a photographic series first shown in, and commissioned by MUDAM
Luxembourg. The series was made in a small sub-tropical Japanese island, exploring
the deep relationship and shamanistic rituals of the elderly female population.

Delivery from the Netherlands.

Artist: Jake Harvey
Title: Fish Eye
Medium: Lino cut print
Edition: No. 4 in an edition of 20
Dimensions: 23 x 19.5 cm (window size)
Year: 2019
Market Value: £235

Signature on bottom right.

Biography:
Jake Harvey was born and spent his formative years in Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. He now lives and works from a studio in Maxton, near St Boswells.

Jake studied sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art (1966 -72) and went on to become Head of The School of Sculpture and Professor of Sculpture before retiring as Emeritus Professor in 2010.

He is a sculptor of elemental works working mainly with earth related materials, though it is the carving of stone that is his preferred medium. A life-long experience of living within the Borders landscape, the meditative aspect of fishing and an interest in archaeological sites and artifacts inform his approach to making art.

In 2003 Jake was lead artist on the acclaimed AN TURAS project on the Isle of Tiree. From 2007 to 2011 he conceived and structured The STONE Project. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain, outputs included The Milestone Carve during the Edinburgh Festival of 2009, a UK wide touring exhibition of stone carved sculptures in 2010 and the publication of STONE: A Legacy and Inspiration for Art, 2011, Black Dog Publishing.

Represented by Art First, London.

Artist:
Title: Mannequin *
Medium: Collage with Watercolour on Canson 200gms
Dimensions: 24 x 32 cm
Year:
Market Value: £500

Signed on reverse.

About the work:
From the series “Regions of the ideal”.

Biography:
Born in Cumbria in 1951, Fisher attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1969 to 1976 gaining a Diploma in Sculpture and two consecutive Post Graduate years of study.

During the late seventies and eighties, worked from a studio in Edinburgh and became Chairperson of the New 57 Gallery. Early exhibitions from this period include, Artists Space New York, Mercer Union Toronto, Abbott Hall Kendal, Fruitmarket Edinburgh, Third Eye Centre Glasgow and the British Art Show in 1985.

In the nineties he began working as a lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. Becoming Professor of Sculpture from 2006 to 2014. Exhibitions during this period include Galleria Jannone Milan, Svoboda Foundation Prague and the Contemporary museum in Maglioni Turin.

The sculpture practice has always had a core of works in plaster with occasional wood and stone carvings and bronze casts from original plasters. Construction also plays a part and the combination of solid form and construction comes together increasingly in the new watercolours. Aspects of realism alongside abstract ideas can also be seen in both early and later works.

*Available framed for £40 extra to selling price

Artist: Karen Maxted
Title: 96 (33+60)
Medium: Acrylic on wood
Dimensions: 6x16x2 and 3x13x1cm
Year: 2017
Market Value: £150

Signed on reverse.

Biography:
Maxted is interested in mark marking - accidental or purposeful, her marks or the marks of others. These are found in various places - scribbles on notes, doodles, in pre-existing art work. The artist collects marks that appeal, usually because she sees objects in them (that are never intended). These marks are appropriated and catalogued and the artist plays with scale and colour inversion. The mark are collated to create works which can range from the very abstract to the surreal. The work manifests itself in ‘expanded collage’ including painting on linen as well as collections of individual metal or wooden shapes.

Maxted is recipient of the Visual Arts and Crafts Makers Award, Creative Scotland / South Ayrshire Council, 2020, Katherine Michaelson Prize 2018 and ECA Art Collections Purchase Prize 2018. She has works in the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian collections and currently has work on sale at the RSA Open.

Artist: Sarah Calmus (President - Visual Arts Scotland)
Title: #1 Three Corners To All Sides
Medium: Chalk Pastel on 300gsm Cartridge Paper
Dimensions: 29.7 x 42.0cm
Year: 2020
Market Value: £150

Title- #1 Three Corners To All Sides

Biography:
Sarah Calmus is an interdisciplinary artist, arts programmer and educator, currently based in Edinburgh. Hailing from Essex, Calmus moved to Dundee to study at Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art and Design. Calmus graduated in 2014 in Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices where she has participated, organised and been selected for over 40 joint exhibitions, residencies, events and interventions, predominantly in Scotland.

Calmus has been involved with The Hidden Door Festival since 2015 and was elected to join the Council of Visual Arts Scotland in spring 2019. Calmus employs serious play with a focus on participatory art, where her practice crosses disciplines utilising mediums including, light, film and experimental prints.

Artist: Emily Bates
Title: The Sky Is Glowing With The Setting Sun #14
Medium: Hand printed colour photograph
Edition: 50
Dimensions: 19 x 24cm
Year: 2012
Market Value: £200

Signed on reverse and / or signed and numbered sticker

Biography:
Emily Bates studied Textiles at Glasgow School of Art, 1990-93. She has been based
in Amsterdam since being awarded the Scottish Arts Council Amsterdam Artist in
Residence in 1997/98, where photography became a prominent part of her practice.

Offerings from a photographic series first shown in, and commissioned by MUDAM
Luxembourg. The series was made in a small sub-tropical Japanese island, exploring
the deep relationship and shamanistic rituals of the elderly female population.

Delivery from the Netherlands.

Artist: Robbie Bushe
Title: Drones Over Oxgangs
Medium: Dip pen and gouache
Dimensions: Glazed frame size: 62 x 78 cm, Image size: 43 x 57cm
Year: 2017
Market Value: £1000

About the work:
"I live and make art in the 1950/60s suburb of Oxgangs – one of Edinurgh’s first council estates. This a re-imaginating of Oxgangs Road North with its rows of anonymous 1950s housing and large strip gardens, being watched over by our new obsession of Drones".
- Robbie Bushe

Biography:
Robbie has exhibited his distinctive narrative works throughout the UK since 1990, winning several national awards including the Guthrie Medal at the Royal Scottish Academy and in 2016 the inaugural W Gordon Smith painting prize.

Born in Liverpool in 1964, he grew up in Aberdeenshire, before graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1990. Since then he has successfully worked as both an artist and lecturer; first at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, then at the University of Chichester (where he was the Head of Fine Art) before moving on to Kent Institute of Art and Design and Oxford Brookes University.

In 2007, he became coordinator of short courses at Edinburgh College of Art, and now as part of the University of Edinburgh. He was President of ‘Visual Arts Scotland’ from 2013-16 was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 2017 where he is now serving as Secretary.

Bushe’s recent art practices straddle the use of fragments of research, daydreams, observation and pictorial reconstruction. His structural but free-flowing drawings take as their starting point sprawling cities built on monumental panoramas – both improvised and real.

Artist: Ross Sinclair
Title: I Love Real Life
Medium: 6 colour Silk Screen Hand Pulled by the Artist
Edition: A/P (Artist's Proof)
Dimensions: 56 x 76 cm
Year:
Market Value: £350

Signed bottom right - R Sinclair

Biography:
The artist Ross Sinclair had the words Real Life tattooed across his back at Terrys Tattoo Parlour in Glasgow in 1994. Since then he has made lots of work all over the world thinking about that idea in different places with different people. He is a Professor of Art at Glasgow School of Art.

Artist: Beagles & Ramsay
Title: Head Lung Dead
Medium: Drawing
Dimensions: 28x20cm
Year: 2019
Market Value: N/A

Signed on reverse.

About the work:
http://www.beaglesramsay.co.uk

Artist: Nicholas Carrick
Title: Homework
Medium: Oil on Linen
Dimensions: 45 x 40cm
Year:
Market Value: £

About the work:
"My work explores isolation or solitareiness in the everyday. When the coronavirus lock down took place I set out to document the world around me. "
- Nicholas Carrick

Biography:
"I am an artist living in East Sussex. I am represented by Zimmer Stewart Gallery in Arundel. Exhibitions include Towards Night, Towner gallery, Eastbourne curated by Tom Hammick; The Eagle Gallery London, A Letter Home touring Contemporary museums of China; and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2004-2016."
- Nicholas Carrick

Artist: Robbie Bushe
Title: Oxgangs Excavations
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: Framed Size: 56 x 42 cm. Image size: 44 x 30 cm
Year: 2017
Market Value: £1000

About the work:
"I live and make art in the 1950/60s suburb of Oxgangs – one of Edinburgh’s first council estates. It is built on what was extensive rural farm land between the Pentlands, Colinton, Craiglochart and the Blackford hills. In this work I was playing with the idea of archaeological digs, new build foundations, property extensions as we all carve out our own space to live and co-exist with our neighbours."
- Robbie Bushe

Biography:
Robbie has exhibited his distinctive narrative works throughout the UK since 1990, winning several national awards including the Guthrie Medal at the Royal Scottish Academy and in 2016 the inaugural W Gordon Smith painting prize.

Born in Liverpool in 1964, he grew up in Aberdeenshire, before graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1990. Since then he has successfully worked as both an artist and lecturer; first at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, then at the University of Chichester (where he was the Head of Fine Art) before moving on to Kent Institute of Art and Design and Oxford Brookes University.

In 2007, he became coordinator of short courses at Edinburgh College of Art, and now as part of the University of Edinburgh. He was President of ‘Visual Arts Scotland’ from 2013-16 was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 2017 where he is now serving as Secretary.

Bushe’s recent art practices straddle the use of fragments of research, daydreams, observation and pictorial reconstruction. His structural but free-flowing drawings take as their starting point sprawling cities built on monumental panoramas – both improvised and real.

Artist: Sorcha Edward
Title: Red Riding Hood
Medium: Graphite, photoshop
Dimensions: 40 x 50cm
Year: 2020
Market Value: £250

Biography:
"My name is Sorcha Edward and I am an illustrator, animator and conceptual artist. After graduating from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2006 I have undertaken commissions for documentaries, logo design and concept art as well as backdrops and props for theatrical productions. Alongside this I have also pursued a number of personal projects, including graphic novels, comics and taken part in short film festivals. This image is from a series of high quality limited edition prints I am creating based on fairy tale characters."

Artist: Lyndsey Gilmour
Title: Edge With Green And Orange
Medium: Oil and enamel on steel
Dimensions: 29 x 32cm
Year: 2016
Market Value: £650

Signature on reverse

Biography:
Lyndsey Gilmour was born in Glasgow in 1988 and currently lives and works in Aberdeenshire. She was recipient of The Dewar Arts Award in 2012, enabling her to commence a Master in Fine Art Degree at the prestigious Slade School of Art, London. In 2013 she received further support from the Dewar Arts Awards and in addition received a Scottish International Education Trust Award, North Lanarkshire Educational Grant and a Pocock Award. Since graduating in 2014 she has won a number of awards including The William Coldstream Prize, RSA Latimer Award and an Aberdeen Creative Funding Award.

Artist: Nicola Wiltshire
Title: Duthie Park
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 59 x 59cm
Year: 2016
Market Value: £400

About the work:
"A girl stands in a vast, open landscape... her head tilted. Figures, faces and symbols merge into the background of trees. There are layers and layers of meaning, each having its own breakthrough into the dense black sky. There are two options: one red and one blue, plus a jagged path forward. I'm sure you'll work it out if you know which way to go."
- Nicola Wiltshire (written in 2016)

Biography:
Nicola Wiltshire is a Dundee-based artist who graduated in 2009 with a BA in Fine Art at University Of Westminster, London and an MFA in Art And Humanities at Duncan Of Jordanstone College Of Art And Design, Dundee. Nicola observes the world through her paintings; using colour, line, gesture and shape in a way that emphasises the feeling of a place, person or experience. Images that are at once familiar and dreamlike emerge through a language of bold charcoal lines, intense handmade oil colour and an abstraction of form into playful, calming and appealing shapes. Snapshots of walks, domestic interiors and people sleeping are amongst the themes used to explore universal experiences such as journeys, silence, the seasons and archetypes. Nicola's work begins when stretching coloured and patterned fabric over a wooden frame, before priming selected areas for painting. She draws in charcoal and makes her own oil paint and soft pastels using centuries-old techniques. Each of these elements is an important feature of her work that builds up a materials-focused practice that is a colourful and poetic celebration of art's history.

Artist: Inge Panneels
Title: Arctus
Medium: Glass
Dimensions: 48 cm dia
Year: 2013
Market Value: £420

Signature engraved.

About the work:
Arctus is inspired by the beautiful 16th century map of the North Pole by the Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator, which appears in several of his atlas editions, and which shows four distinct rivers flowing from the pole. It was at that time ’terra incognito’ and remained so for many centuries.

Biography:
Inge Panneels is an artist and academic. She established her studio in Edinburgh in 1998 and moved to the Scottish Borders in 2004 to a purpose-built studio, working extensively on public art projects across the UK and exhibiting internationally. Her academic work considers creative practices in the Anthropocene and she is currently researcher at Creative Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University. Current work is focussing on the role of creativity and creative practices in making visible and telling stories about space and place, through an environmental (data) lens.

Artist: John Noble-Milner
Title: Two Life Sized Pipistrelle Bats
Medium: Stoneware ceramic
Edition: Open
Dimensions: 5cm approx.
Year: 2019
Market Value: £80

Signed on reverse.

About the work:
These ceramic pipistrelles are designed to be wall mounted. As they are in stoneware they will withstand any weather conditions if located outside.

Biography:
John Noble-Milner gained the nickname Geckoman when he started his professional career as a wildlife sculptor in 1997. Initially working as a potter and sculpting in clay much of his focus now is centred on bronze sculpture. Geckos remain a favourite subject, as are the pipistrelle bats featured here.

John sculpts animals that look naturally poised. Capturing their character with a tilt of the head, a quizzical look in the eye, a fluidity of movement and energy; almost ready to spring rather than a frozen snapshot of motion. A grounding in biology and understanding of anatomy inform his work with a detailed, lifelike quality.

His bronzes are cast here in the UK using metals from over 95% recycled sources. Both his home and workshop are powered by 100% renewable energy and he subscribes to a scheme to offset all unavoidable carbon emissions. All this reflects his concern for the environment and his interest in the conservation of all the amazing creatures that fascinate and inspire him.

http://www.geckoman.co.uk
instagram, facebook, twitter: @geckomanart

Artist: Jamie McAteer (President - Society Of Scottish Artists)
Title: 'And Sweet Our Last Sleep' + 'Hark To The Fulmar And The Guillemot' + 'As Deep As The Sky Is High Above'
Medium: 3 x digital archival prints, in a titled circular window mount
Dimensions: 300mm x 320mm
Year:
Market Value: £240

Signed under mount

About the work:
A trio of works (sold as a set) from the series "A Farewell Shaped Land' all taken on St Kilda.

Biography:
Jamie owns a bespoke picture framing business and works in photography and ceramics. He is currently the President of Society of Scottish Artists.

Artist: Kenny Hunter
Title: Then The Animals Said God
Medium: Screenprint with gold dusting
Edition Size: 40
Dimensions: 55 x 55 cm
Year: 2011
Market Value: £200

Biography:
Born in Edinburgh in 1962, Kenny Hunter studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art between 1983 and 1987. He has exhibited extensively in Britain and abroad, including solo exhibitions at Arnolfini, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, CCA and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

He has created a number of high profile, commissioned works in Scotland including; Youth with Split Apple for Kings College, Aberdeen, Citizen Firefighter outside Glasgow Central Station and Man walks among us for Glasgow Museums. He is represented in several public collections in the UK, including Aberdeen Art Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Like many previous text works by Kenny Hunter, “Then the Animals said God” opens up a question rather than proclaims a position, simultaneously capable of suggesting both a creationist viewpoint and that of a Darwinian Scholar. The print takes its inspiration from a pivotal point in Human History, reminding us both of our animal roots and our desire for trancendence. The explosion in the background elaborates this dichotomy and can be read as either the ‘big bang’ or a burst of celestial light. Printed with Gold dust it can also evoke particle based matter as well as the traditions of religious art.

Artist: David Fryer
Title: Embroidered Covid in Isolation
Medium: Medium Machine embroidery on cotton construction
Dimensions: 56cm x 12 cm
Year: 2020
Market Value: £200

Biography:
"My art practise utilises the medium of embroidery as a means of representing image from drawings often with a political or social meaning I have often shown my work in Scotland in exhibitions such as 'Still Future' shows in Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, most recently curating and exhibiting in Paris at the Mannerheim Gallery in an exhibition entitled 'Substance'."
- David Fryer

Artist: Simon Greer
Title: Floating High Above – Flirtation
Medium: Acrylic and collage on canvas
Dimensions: 61 x 61cm
Year: 2019
Market Value: £500

About the work:
"Lovers float obliviously through a vibrant sky. Below them a landscape of symbols drifts past. Multiple layers of symbols marks and textures hint at what was, is and may be.

My paintings appear as abstract colour compositions. Hand cut symbolic shapes form a base collage; the foundation of the dialogue. Colour is washed over them and more symbols painted creating many layers. I have created my own symbolic, visual vocabulary based on love, family, growth and balance. The theme of the circle recurs as symbol of completion. A dream of flight and fear of water create a constant tension. "
- Simon Greer

Biography:
Glasgow School of Art 1984-88

Exhibited widely in the UK

Work in collections in UK, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, USA, Dubai, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Currently working as an Art and Design Teacher.

Artist: Mark Haddon
Title: Furrow
Medium: Walnut
Dimensions: 26.5cm x 20.5cm x 5cm
Year: 2012
Market Value: £350

Signature on reverse.

Biography:
"I make work in a variety of media, but currently I am drawing in ink and making objects from wood. I studied in Edinburgh and still live and work here. Some more work can be seen at http://www.markhaddon.net.";
- Mark Haddon

Artist: Chris Buncall
Title: Varenne Red Bank
Medium: Oil on wooden panel
Dimensions: 40x40cm
Year:
Market Value: £

Signed 'buncall'.

Biography:
"I am currently working towards a solo exhibition entitled 'floodlands', This is aiming to show the changing landscape locally due to climate change and rising river waters around Normandy. All oil on wooden panels. Most of the wooden panels are recovered panels from the river after flooding."
- Chris Buncall

Artist: Kristina Chan
Title: Postscript I
Medium: Lithography and mono print, framed
Edition: Variable Edition of 5
Dimensions: 54 cm x 37
Year: 2018
Market Value: £650

Signature on front, details inscribed on back.

Biography:
Kristina Chan works between printmaking and alternative photography. Her practice uses narrative and site specificity to evoke a felt history and sense of place. She graduated from Royal College of Art (2016), with works in the permanent archives of the V&A Museum and Royal Collection. Kristina is a finalist nominee for the Queen Sonja Print Award and Castlegate prize, and a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshield’s Foundation Grant. http://www.kristinachan.com

Artist: Kristina Chan
Title: Postscript II
Medium: Lithography and mono print, framed
Edition: Variable Edition of 5
Dimensions: 54 cm x 37
Year: 2018
Market Value: £650

Signature on front, details inscribed on back.

Biography:
Kristina Chan works between printmaking and alternative photography. Her practice uses narrative and site specificity to evoke a felt history and sense of place. She graduated from Royal College of Art (2016), with works in the permanent archives of the V&A Museum and Royal Collection. Kristina is a finalist nominee for the Queen Sonja Print Award and Castlegate prize, and a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshield’s Foundation Grant. http://www.kristinachan.com

Artist: David Martin
Title: Meeting In Madaba
Medium: Mixed media
Dimensions: 40 x 60 cm
Year: 2007
Market Value: £600

Signed on front.

Biography:
David Martin is a painter who plays with the convention of the figure in space, creating paradoxes and contradictions within the image that encourage the viewer to question the truth and logic of what they are seeing. Using high-realism to create believable scenarios, Martin hides images within images and frustrates the rationality of the space, leaving the viewer with an uncertain encounter, more akin to a puzzle than a statement of fact.

David Martin is head of the Foundation Course at Leith School of Art and also the Creative Director and founder of Hidden Door.

Artist: Heather Lander
Title: Final Descent
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 129 x 90cm
Year: 2014
Market Value: £975

Signed, dated and titled in black sharpie on the back

Biography:
Heather Lander is a video installation artist with a strong interest in painting. Using moving image and sculpture she creates immersive sonic light installations. Born in Portland, USA, Lander has been based in Glasgow since 1999 and graduated from Glasgow School of Art’s MFA in 2015 with distinction (1st class). She was also awarded the highly distinguished Bram Stoker Medal for the most imaginative work of the year. She has presented video installations with Cryptic Nights (2016) and Sonica (2017&2018) in Glasgow and London; Glasgow International (2016) with Simon Harlow at The Briggait; The Hidden Door Festival (2016); Edinburgh Art Festival (2017) in partnership with Institut Français d’Écosse.
Lander’s practice focuses on ideas of magic, the virtual and the ways technology can, and will, affect our interpretation of reality. She continues her research into time, light and most recently, has begun to introduce sound into her installations. In 2017, Lander spent a month residency with Indonesian arts organisation, Tanahindie, in Makassar as part of the British Council UK:ID Season. For the last three years Lander has spent time developing her practice in residence at Cove Park in Scotland, through Cryptic.
http://www.hrlander.com
https://www.hrlander.com/bio

Artist: Janie Nicoll
Title: LookingForwardLookingBack
Medium: Collage on paper
Dimensions: 100cm x 55 cm, unframed
Year: 2020

Signed on reverse.

About the work:
This artwork is part of a series of collage works that utilise newspapers, and cultural detritus as a form of found material.

“Glasgow based artist Janie Nicoll is no stranger to newsprint. In her installation and performance work, she uses text – discarded newspapers, magazines, and other detritus that we consume and get rid of. This material she deftly manipulates into large scale ornaments, wall installations, insignia and emblems that recycle the media ”message” into something far more subversive – the material blooming into its own, revealing hidden messages, opening a space for anarchic disorder, revaluation and dissent.

The material minutiae soliciting for our attention – the torn edges, crumples and creases are all an intrinsic part of Nicoll’s found materials and build into a visceral texture that support the conceptual and political play she engages in. The resulting installations are a reflection on a collective artistic and activist production, and also a peculiar mapping of the contemporary aesthetic and political impulse.”
- Mirja Koponen.

Biography:
Janie Nicoll is a Glasgow based Visual Artist who studied Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and the MFA at Glasgow School of Art. She has a studio based and socially engaged practice, often creating hybrid-works across a range of media using collage techniques and collaboration with other artists or communities. She has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, and recently spent three years as President of Scottish Artists Union (2014-'17). She is currently a Trustee for Engage, the National Organisation for Gallery Education.

She recently undertook ‘In Kind’, a research project with artist Ailie Rutherford, which aimed to chart the hidden economies of the arts, using Glasgow International 2018 as a case study.

Other exhibitions include Record Store, Aberdeen as part of Look Again Festival; Sluice Art Fair, London; Turin & Marseille Artists’ Exchange for WASPS’s Studios; ‘Rough Edit’ at InterviewRoom11, part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2014; ‘East End Transmissions’ at the Pipe Factory; ‘New Wave’ at the “Old Hairdressers”, ‘Fools Gold’ at the Briggait Project Spaces.

Recent residencies include a Creative Lab at CCA Glasgow: a Collaborative Residency for Counterflows Music Festival; A Rough Mix cross platform collaborative residency for Magnetic North Theatre Co, at Tramway; a Protest and Propaganda Lab at Metal Liverpool.

She is a recipient of the John Kinross Award from the RSA, the Richard Ford Award from the Royal Academy, London.

Artist: Keith Paton
Title: At The Event Horizon
Medium: Acrylic paint, spray paint and image transfer on prepared plywood panel. White box (open) frame.
Dimensions: 610mm x 910mm unframed, 646mm x 946mm including frame.
Year: 2019
Market Value: £475

Signature: Signed "kfig 19" front bottom right. Inscription to rear "At The Event Horizon, Keith Paton, 2019".

Biography:
Keith Paton is an artist from Leith, Edinburgh. Using digital and traditional mediums, techniques and technology his core practice explores ideas of time, space, geometry and n-dimensional translation. Subject matter ranges from pure abstract geometric imagery to more figurative abstractions and the work often incorporates found images through elements of collage or image transfer. Keith is a lover of collaboration. This year has begun by making collaborative work with a loose group of artists, illustrators, muralists and street artists. This collective effort produced a large collaborative mural, 'AmalgamEight', that was fortunately exhibited just before Coronavirus distancing measures began. The current lockdown has moved that continuing collaboration online and hopefully will produce some interesting online art and live performances in the coming months.
Keith is also co-director of Bloc Gallery in Leith, Edinburgh - an exhibition space for artists and makers.

Artist: Liz Douglas
Title: Pool From Within
Medium: Digital Print
Dimensions: 61cm x 78cm
Year: 2012
Market Value: £250

About the work:

‘Pool from within’ was made during a Residency at the Heriot Watt University, Galashiels in 2012. Liz researched diatoms, a microscopic algae from an ancient pool at Whitlaw Mosses - a site of specific interest in the Scottish Borders. This work is laser-cut and digitally printed.

Biography:
The work of Liz Douglas is about landscape and a sense of place. Liz is particularly interested in the macro and micro, visible and invisible elements in the landscape which fascinate her and which she incorporates into her work. She continually tries to find ways to express elements of landscape that reveal something else that is elusive and intriguing, difficult to quantify, with a poetic resonance. She has a long connection with landscape – it is part of herself and something that she always tries to connect with through her working process.

Liz Douglas is based in the Scottish Borders working in a Wasps Studio in Selkirk. She is an MFA graduate from Edinburgh College of Art where she studied painting. Liz is a Professional Member of the SSA.

Artist: John Behm
Title: Bishop’s Bridge (Sun-Hazed October Morning)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 30cm
Year: 2017
Market Value: £240

Signed in lower left corner, running vertically up along the left side

About the work:
"Painted off the medieval bridge crossing the River Wensum by the Norwich Cathedral precinct during the annual Paint Out Norwich competition, where artists have 3 hours to produce a painting, from blank canvas and first selection of a site, to handing in. I stood barefoot in my kilt on a wooden canoe launching platform in the river, which flooded as the tide rose. The painting was exhibited once, for a weekend, as part of the 2017 Paint Out Norwich event."
- John Behm

Biography:
"I studied drawing and painting at E.C.A. (1976-78), where I proudly roused the ire of Sir Robin Philipson by insisting on pursuing 16mm film-making. This, after 2 years studying drawing and painting, printmaking, sculpture, and design at art college in Pennsylvania, USA. This was followed by a degree in architectural interior design and studio glass from E.C.A. in the mid-80s. I have pursued a varied career in art - mostly in Scotland - between painting, sculpting, designing, making and film-making.

15 years ago, I was nearly (even, briefly) killed in a head-on argument between my Peugeot 205 and 29 tons of fully-laden gritter lorry on a blind bend in my beloved Lammermuirs. Among other things, I suffered Traumatic Brain Injury, the effects of which continue. Any recovery I enjoy now has taken a decade and more to achieve. I was physically unable to paint for 9 years. For the last 6 years, it has been enough for me just to do the work. Only this year have I begun to actively return to exhibiting, notably in the Royal Society of British Artists Annual Open show at the Mall, in February. My exhibition plans beyond that were set to happen at the same time as the lockdown for the CoVid-19!

Paintings of mine are in private and public collections in Britain, Europe, and the United States.

“The Waymerks Project” (2002 -05) placed 13 pieces of sculpture (each bearing some of the 10,000 hand-minted Waymerks tokens) out coast to coast along the Southern Upland Way. This work is now in the permanent collection of the National Museums of Scotland. Coldstream Museum also has one of my sculptures. I also executed 3 of the lighting groups designed by Mackintosh for House For An Art Lover in Glasgow, and a pair of large hand-forged support rings for a fourth.

Along the Berwickshire Heritage Coast Memorial Sculpture Trail are installed 13 bas-relief bronzes commemorating the life of the fishing, as part of the recent 125 Memorials for the 1881 Fisheries Disaster - a commission I won in international competition. Similarly, in Norfolk are 3 series of bronze bas-reliefs, placed along long-distance foot, cycle, and bridle trails, commissioned of me by Norfolk County Council.

I believe in ‘democratic’ art. As with the portable, pilgrims’ badge-like Waymerks which I produced for the Waymerks Project, my bas-reliefs are intended to provide the users of the various trails with the opportunity to carry home an original piece of art. In the case of the bas-reliefs, a piece of art made by their own hands.

For me, sculpture is play, while painting is meditation. Of my 4 kids, two are artists, the fourth is studying to be. We like the life!"
- John Behm

Artist: Billy McCall
Title: Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines Battles To Bring Storm Aid, Kills 10000, Leaves 4.4mn Homeless. 1:46
Medium: Acrylic on canvas treated with heat gun
Dimensions: 3 x 40cm
Year:
Market Value:

Signed on reverse.

About the work:
From the series ‘Oh, no. (After Bob Godfrey). 2014. One of 17 paintings that appropriate a scene from the cartoon series Roobarb. There are seventeen scenes in the tv series where there appears a shed but no characters. Each scene is copied and given a title taken from YouTube of environmental disaster. There are two other iterations of ‘oh, no’ one from the road runner cartoons on the civil war in Syria and one of Hong Kong Phooey on capitalist surveillance.

Artist: Mella Shaw
Title: Janus Form (one piece from the Janus Forms series*
Medium: Smoke-fired ceramics
Dimensions: 13 cm x 13 cm x 13 cm
Year: 2020
Market Value: £250

* You are bidding for one piece from the Janus Forms series. Please be aware that each of these piece is totally unique, so the exact piece you receive may vary slightly from the photo.

About the work:
Mella Shaw’s “Janus Forms” are ceramic objects that consists of two perfectly balanced sides, that seem to ‘look’ in opposite directions, hence the name “Janus” after the ancient Roman god that represented duality, time, beginnings, endings, thresholds and transitions. They are meditative objects and the one that Mella has donated for BID sits comfortably in the hand(s), inviting contemplation. The highly polished, smooth surface has a mysterious and otherworldly patina that results from the smoke-firing process. Due to this technique each Janus Form is completely unique.

Biography:
Mella Shaw makes thought-provoking objects and site-specific installations around
environmental themes of balance, tipping points, fragility and loss. With a background in anthropology, museums and the study of material culture Mella is drawn to the way objects can be imbued with shared cultural meaning. She combines traditional smoke-firing processes with highly regular and polished forms, creating otherworldly surface patinas - transforming pieces into mysterious, ambiguous and timeless objects. Mella holds a master’s in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art (London) and is a visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins (London).

http://www.mellashaw.co.uk
Twitter: @mellashaw
Instagram: @mellamine

Artist: Jana Emburey
Title: Dancer No. 6
Medium: Digital print on Hahnemühle German Etch paper
Edition: 3 of 10
Dimensions: Image size 28 x 40cm, paper size 29.7 x 42cm
Year: 2016
Market Value: £430

Signature with title and edition number on the front, below the image.

About the work:
Photograph of a flour drawing. As part of the Ephemeral series, Dancer No. 6 explores the fleeting quality of time. The drawings are free drawn with flour to signify the transient nature of movement. As these drawings are very fragile and unstable and are swept away with a brush when finished, they are photographed to preserve the image.

Biography:
Jana’s work mainly explores the concept of time perception, memory, interconnectivity and human condition. Her work is informed by the close relationship of everything in nature, reflected and replicated in a multitude of ways.

Born in 1979 in the former Czechoslovakia, Jana studied Theatrical Costume in Bratislava, Slovakia. She moved to Britain in 1997 and in 2012 she completed her BA Hons in Visual Art through Leeds Metropolitan University. Jana now lives and works in the Badenoch and Strathspey area and her work is represented by Ione and Mann, &Gallery, Brown's Gallery and Cube Gallery.

Artist: Peter J Scott
Title: Lala Land
Medium: ink over digital pigment print
Edition: 1 of 1
Dimensions: 60cm x 40cm
Year: 2020
Market Value: £300

Signed and dated bottom right.

About the work:
"A lock down inspired work. The title inspired by location of photo, outside the Arches club in Glasgow, where I saw Green Velvet perform, which is where the title comes from. I completed it during lock down."
- Peter J Scott

Biography:
Peter is an artist and teacher based outside Glasgow, studied Environmental Art at GSA graduating in 2001. After a long period of not making work I started again in 2015 and have had several exhibitions, founded an art collective and for a short period of time I ran my own gallery. All while teaching full time. See website http://www.peterjscottfineart.com for more detail