Ebb and Flow

Paintings, porcelain and hangings

Jude Nixon

28th October - 10th November 2023

Ebb and Flow was a solo exhibition showcasing paintings, porcelain and hangings by Jude Nixon. Jude is an Edinburgh based artist whose practice focuses on the liminal space between land and water. These are spaces which are marked and scarred by continual movement and change with boundaries constantly formed and reformed. The exhibition explored the elemental power of shore-lines and the inscriptions and marks that stem from their movement and journey. In addition, the work reflected on questions of transience, loss, memory and lament.

Email: nixon.judith1@gmail.com

Website: Judenixon.co.uk

Instagram: @nixon.judith1 

Walking On Snow

New Work by Orkney Artist

Marion Yorston

14th - 25th October 2023

Marion’s new work is inspired by her love for the Arctic; she lived there as a small child and revisited during the pandemic. Walking more recently through the Canadian woods, Svalbard and Iceland, Marion’s love for the far north continues and could be seen captured between the layers in this collection.

Books New and Old

Hamnavoe Bookbinders of Stromness

6th - 12th October 2023

The windows of Northlight featured 400 years of books this week. Passers-by were able to view a number of books from the workbench of Hamnavoe Bookbinders of Stromness, newly finished and still-in-progress. These nestled amongst volumes from HB's collection of historical examples, the oldest dating from 1609.

Wet Paint

Very New Work in the Windows

Shona Firth

22nd September - 5th October 2023

Shona Firth, Orkney painter and printmaker, showed oil paintings straight off the easel in the windows. She says that her interest lies in the fleeting effects of light and colour caused by the changing weather and enjoys the flow and smell of oil paint, which she describes as “very forgiving”.

Confluence

New work

Drawings by Samantha Clark

9th - 20th September 2023

The drawings exhibited were the result of a slow and meditative practice, a patient accretion of simple marks that produced intricate forms resembling sea foam, cloud forms or wave patterns.  Samantha uses reflective and iridescent media such as silver leaf and chrome ink in combination with acrylic and gouache to build up surfaces that change, as water does, with each shift of light and angle of view.

She was present in the gallery throughout the exhibition and visitors joined her in making a large-scale drawing, formed from thousands of tiny white circles that flowed together on a roll of black paper.