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Our Place on Earth RSA Architecture Forum 2019

RSA Architecture Forum 2019 Our Place on EarthThis year’s Royal Scottish Academy Architecture Forum will challenge the popular idea that ‘people make places’ by demonstrating that our ‘place on earth’ remains a powerful and…
Plum tree and wall oil painting Diana Hand

Forth Valley Art Beat at Easter Poldar

I am showing work at my own studio VENUE 35  from Monday June 10th to Sunday June 16th between 12 pm and 5 pm each afternoon.I LOOK FORWARD TO SHOWING YOU MY NEW WORK!  This will include paintings and drawings from recent exhibitions in…
Christmas Eve 3 oil sketch by Diana Hand Flanders MossDiana Hand

Forth Valley Art Beat 2019 at Westmossside.

I am looking forward to this year's Forth Valley Art Beat  I am showing work at the Westmossside Art Collective (VENUE 35) based on my experiences of working in the Flanders Moss area every day.  This year I have been inspired by a visit…
Plum tree in light oil painting by Diana Hand

A Green Thought – Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings 22nd to 27th September, 2018

   Whitespace Gallery,  76, East Crosscauseway, Edinburgh EH8 8HQ 22nd to 27th September, 2018      12pm to 5pm Private view Friday, 21st September, 2018          The…
Freud portrait All Too Human Tate

All Too Human Exhibition at Tate Britain , London 28th February to 27th August, 2018.

ALL TOO HUMAN  TATE BRITAIN APRIL 20         A  PERSONAL ACCOUNT This exhibition was a perspective on British figurative art over the past 100 years, the focus being on painters who worked with the human figure as…
Woman in a tub pastel Degas
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Drawn in colour Degas from the Burrell Collection at the National Gallery, London

Degas and his use of pastels  National Gallery London This was a fascinating exhibition of Degas drawings, which showed  how working methods change with fashion and with available materials. During the second half of the 19th century,…
Knabstrup charcoal drawing Diana Hand
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How to work with an exhibition brief

 There is nothing like an exhibition brief for developing ideas.  It is the fulcrum for focussing on what one's real energy and interests currently are.  For this exhibition "Wild Spaces" at the Whitehouse Gallery, Kircudbright,…
Venice Biennale 2017 near the Giardini

Venice Biennale 2017

Venice Biennale 2017A great trip to Venice in October to catch the 2017 Venice Biennale in the Giardini and the Arsenale.  The Giardini is a long established exhibition site and many countries have a permanent pavilion here.  There is…
Palace House Newmarket

Society of Equestrian Artists Summer Exhibition, Palace House, Newmarket

The Summer Exhibition of the Society of Equestrian Artists at the National Heritage Centre  for Horseracing & Sporting Art . in NewmarketThe exhibition coincides with Europe’s Premier Midsummer Sale at Tattersalls and The…
The Family oil and paint on card

Cut the Mustard Summer Exhibition 10th June to 24th August, 2017

 Cut the Mustard is a private gallery, representing 60 different artists, makers and jewellery designers.   It is owned and run by photographer Barry Young, and jeweller Lisa Rothwell-Young.  In their words“We run 5 or…