A new group exhibition at the new Samphire Gallery in Castle Douglas celebrates 14 artists’ connections with Scotland’s rich history of myth and storytelling, and its diverse landscape, in particular Dumfries and Galloway, expressed in oils, ceramics, photography, glass and printmaking.

The Gallery opened last December with the aim of providing a platform for local artists to exhibit their work and to provide a cultural space in the centre of Castle Douglas. Prior to opening the gallery, owners Jonathan and Malcolm Kennedy collected glass and paintings, and ran a hospitality business in Kirkcudbright for six years – and the large new gallery shares premises with a tea room and café and a book-nook.

They also studied glass-craft with Kate Henderson for many years, and have already exhibited landscape photographer Allan Wright, the tree studies of Elizabeth Gilbey, the South West Scotland Printmakers group, and next month the gallery is set to host the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Society’s winter exhibition.