Sheila Borthwick has been an active photographer since the 1980s, concentrating initially on Scottish Landscapes, and then moving towards more contemporary urban, abstract and close-up works using natural light. She combines digital with the historic argyrotype and cyanotype processes, and explores instant film photography using Polaroid and Instax, liking the soft tones these images reveal.
In 2009, she took up printmaking at Dundee Contemporary Arts, and now produces monoprints using environmentally friendly water-based inks. She also uses a laser cutter to create small shapes to add to abstract works and explores the use of risograph printing, a variant of the old-fashioned stencil duplicators. New techniques are incorporated on a regular basis, blending processes and embracing the novel. She works from her studio at Wasps Creative Exchange in Perth.
Influenced by artists like Paul Klee, Kandinsky and the Russian Constructivist movement, as well as contemporary photographers like Peter Fraser, Paul Hill, John Blakemore, William Egglestone and Franko Fontana. The Cornish Artists, Barbara Hepworth, Sandra Blow and Terry Frost have also been an inspiration.
A J Kinroy is an artist printmaker who currently lives and works in Edinburgh. He has been making prints for many years, but his work has only been in the public domain since 2021. Principally he makes wood engravings, woodcut prints and linocut prints, but he also utilises other printmaking techniques. His work is figurative and representational.
Please note that further prints of items 1 to 5 above are available to order. Item 6 is a unique one- off.
Catherine Marshall is an artist, writer and translator living in Edinburgh. She studied on the Media Foundation at the London College of Communication and has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Photography from Glasgow School of Art. She lived in Germany for 15 years, including Berlin, which she made her home for a decade. Her artists' book Fleetway, a Story in Twelve Photo Fails, was shortlisted for The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award in 2018 for the publisher of an outstanding example of pamphlet poetry.
Elaine Robson traveled the world and then came to rest back in her home town of Edinburgh. She enjoys losing herself in both the rural and the urban, hopefully finding the genius loci while doing so.
A fan of materials, she re-embraced the chemicals and paper of traditional and alternative photographic processes in 2007. Since 2015, paper engineering and artists' books have provided unique forms for her ideas and interpretations of cities and landscapes using intricate paper structures. Weaving text and image in the infinite possibilities of the book form.
Her work can be found in the collections of The City of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland as well as private collections in the UK, Europe and Canada.
Judith Rowan has a BA(hons) in Fine art and is a member of the SSA. An award winning artist she works in photography, printmaking and painting and has work in various public collections.
Her subject matter is found in buildings, those ready for demolition, or neglected and down-at-heel. And in their deterioration is a kind of beauty nevertheless.