showing at Annual Exhibition of Scottish Batik Paintings by Scottish Members of The Batik Guild April 26 - May 6, 2008 Selma Rebus Glasgow Selma is a Glasgow based batik artist who has developed her own style of silk painting using batik and other resist techniques to which she was introduced at Rosslyn Design workshop, near Edinburgh.
Inspiration for her work comes from Scottish fishing villages and the Greek islands, encompassing bold, bright Mediterranean images of still life and sea life themes. As well as using three different silk fabric types, Pongee, Habutai and thick Twill which have their own unique composition and weave affecting the colour diffusion and penetration, Selma likes to batik on a variety of papers such as tissue paper and silk paper. In addition to batik wax, Selma uses other resist techniques, anti-diffusants and outliners to give more definition to the subject.
Selma has exhibited at the Byres Road OXFAM Book Shop Open Window exhibition and at The Batik Guild’s previous exhibitions at Hillhead Library and at the Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre. She also exhibits regularly at Marchmont Gallery, Edinburgh, and has twice exhibited a batik at the Paisley Art Institute's Annual Exhibition alongside more conventional art forms. In addition, Selma enjoys exhibiting her work at 'Paintings & Railings' (Glasgow West End Festival) and at galleries in Aberdour, Fife. GFL 4 Hynland Ave., Glasgow G11 5BW Tel: 0141 339 2838 Email: Selmasilkbatik@hotmail.com Jane Lannagan Tomintoul, Morayshire During a course in Dress and Design in the 1970’s Jane discovered the delights of batik. From an artistic family, she learned very early to enjoy sketching and painting and still remembers with pride when her father, himself an accomplished artist, framed one of her efforts.
This year marks the 35th year that Jane Lannagan has been creating her batik art. Throughout these years she has developed and experimented using the inspiration from the patterns and hues of the countryside in the Highlands. She lives there with her husband Bill with whom she now runs the Tomintoul Gallery where Bill offers a picture framing and printmaking service.
Jane has exhibited and sold her work in several galleries in Scotland and has some new exhibitions lined up for this year and in 2009 for which she is looking forward to creating new work. In the last few years she has worked with children in the local primary schools and has had quite a few adult workshops.
Last year she received a Royal Talens award for one of her pieces of work in “The Artist” Magazine competition held in Nottingham where the work was also sold. Though Jane loves entering her work in the Batik only exhibitions it gives her particular pleasure to see her batiks hanging alongside pictures of the more conventional techniques of oil and watercolour and being appreciated as another way of producing a work of art. For a more detailed version of this posting, follow this link to http://www.artinscotland.com Top | Batik Exhibition | All SAC Artists # sbat08/001 |
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