Since opening in October this year, The Perthshire Gallery has been welcomed by the local community and visitors to the busy Perthshire town of Pitlochry, known for its beautiful Highland setting and Festival Theatre.
Run by owner Jennifer Wheatley and Artist in Residence Emily Crookshank, the Gallery is calm and welcoming, with a large, light front space with high ceilings and big windows, a more intimate middle gallery, and an artist studio behind – giving curators options as to how the spaces are best-used. It specialises in contemporary paintings, ceramics, sculpture, jewellery, textiles, printmaking and handcrafted furniture, with many of the artists and creators being local, with some emerging talents, and some well-established in the Scottish art scene, plus guest-artists from further afield.
The Gallery’s first winter show is a group exhibition, with visual art by Kirsty Wither, Martin Ridley, Iain Holman, Lindsay Turk, Margaret Evans, Davy Brown, Jayne Stokes, Samantha McCubbin, Sarah Anderson (whose work is pictured above), Gordon Corrins, Nichol Wheatley, Todd Garner, Anne Gillies and Alison Price, wood sculpture by Angus Clyne and silver jewellery from Mary Farrell. The middle gallery hosts many local artists, including Emily Crookshank (whose work is pictured below), Becca Thorpe, Cathy Wagstaff, Sheila Roberts and Malize McBride. Also on show are ceramics, with functional, decorative and sculptural work from Perthshire and beyond, and jewellery with hand-crafted work by Diana King, Annie Stenhouse, Derek Allan and Kate West.
