Exhibitors
Filip Andel
We are incredibly excited to be showing the brand new work of Filip Andel, which we consider to be astonishing. Filip is Czech, but now lives in Hamnavoe. He studied ceramics in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic…
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We are delighted to have Rachel's handwoven textile work. She fell in love with Shetland while studying Contemporary Textiles here. The soft light, open skies and shifting colours are the foundations of her work…
View Rachel's Profile »Ruth Brownlee
Ruth graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA Hons in Drawing and Painting/Tapestry. She moved to Shetland in 1998 and has become renowned for her interpretation of the dramatic light and moods of Shetland…
View Ruth's Profile »Sophie Coe
Sophie studied fine art and architecture, and enjoyed a very successful career as an architect in the UK, Asia and Australia. However, fine art has always been her real passion, and it has become her full-time occupation…
View Sophie's Profile »Peter Davis
Peter Davis was a much-loved art teacher in Shetland for many years, but has been acknowledged as one of Scotland's leading watercolourists in recent years, by his election to the RSW in 2023…
View Peter's Profile »Sam Dennis
Doctor Samantha Dennis is a highly respected archeologist, but her alter ego, Sam Dennis, is a passionate basket maker…
View Sam's Profile »Hubert Dickie
Hubert Dickie is an autodidact master craftsman. He came to furniture and objets d'art late in life, after a very successful business career…
View Hubert's Profile »Eve Eunson
Eve Eunson is a native of Fair Isle, the UK's most remote inhabited island, and is one of the few remaining practicioners of Fair Isle strawback chair making, which is a traditional craft considered critically endangered…
View Eve's Profile »Hannah Hann
Hannah is undoubtedly our most "local" Shetland artist, having been born in Gutcher, which is only a mile down the road from the gallery, although she now lives in Norfolk. Her work brings a smile to the face of everyone who enters the gallery…
View Hannah's Profile »Gail Harvey
We are delighted to be showing Gail Harvey's work. She has lived in Shetland since 1988 and has been described as "one of the UK's most powerful painters". She has shown in some of the UK's most prestigious galleries and appears in many important international collections…
View Gail's Profile »Janette Kerr
We are very privileged to be showing the work of Janette Kerr. She has had a home on the west side of Shetland for many years and, fortunately, continues to be inspired by her surroundings…
View Janette's Profile »Gill Owen
Gill has recently moved to Shetland, after having fallen in love with the place over several years. She makes hand-thrown ceramics, produced with locally sourced materials…
View Gill's Profile »Kerry Phippen
We are delighted to welcome Kerry Phippen as a new exhibitor this season. She is Scottish, and fell in love with Shetland when she did a residency in Scalloway two years ago…
View Kerry's Profile »James Rogerson
James is a naturalist and award-winning wildlife photographer. He lives in Shetland…
View James's Profile »Nicola Rose
Nicola has recently moved permanently to Shetland and is living close to Hillswick, so is inspired by Eshaness and its spectacular sights. She says she has come to understand the astonishing colour palette that Shetland offers…
View Nicola's Profile »Shona Skinner
Shona has deep family roots in the North Isles and has been coming to Shetland for fifty years, before moving permanently in 2010, in order to become a full-time artist after being an art teacher for thirty years…
View Shona's Profile »Jayne Stokes
Jayne has a first class honours degree in drawing and painting from Edinburgh College of Art, and an MA in Fine Art from the Winchester School of Art in Barcelona. Since then, she has become an award-winning artist, with her most recent awards being the An Talla Solais prize at the Royal Scottish Academy annual exhibition, and she was shortlisted for the Scottish Landscape Prize 2025. …
View Jayne's Profile »Cecil Tait
Cecil is a born and bred Shetlander. He decided to pursue a career in furniture making at an early age and studied at Glasgow School of Building and Printing, before taking a BA (Hons) in Furniture Craftsmanship and Design at High Wycombe…
View Cecil's Profile »Coleen Thomson
Coleen Thomson is a member of the most creative and talented family we have ever met. She is a Yell lass, through and through, and lives in Aywick on the East Coast of Yell…
View Coleen's Profile »Gail Turpin
Gail is a true Renaissance woman. She is an amazingly talented artist, maker and designer. As an artist, she has won three prizes at the Royal Scottish Academy, including the prestigious J & W Gordon Smith Trust prize…
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