After sixteen years in Aberdour, Fife, artist and gallery-owner William Dawson relocated his Quay Gallery to Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire earlier this year, where he hopes to bring to a new audience artists with whom he has an established relationship. The building has had an interesting past, as a gin bar over a century ago and more recently a cobbler, a grocer, a flat – and now an art gallery. 

The opening exhibition includes work by Stuart Moir, Jean Hall, Clive Ramage, Linda Farquharson and Clare Russell along with a collection of beautiful things, such as Malcolm Appleby’s finely-worked silver, crystalline glaze vases by Richard Bideau, Vivienne Sillar’s smoke-fired ceramic birds and exquisite wooden boxes from Myretoun Woods. The overall selection includes paintings, prints, cards, montages and objets d’art, all sourced in the UK.