It’s the Crossing Borders Art Trail this weekend, Friday 29th – Sunday 31st August.  Leading you through the picturesque Borders towns, villages and landscapes, the Art Trail leads you to painters, potters, furniture makers, jewellers, textile and glass artists in an assortment of interesting venues.

Showing in our local venue at The Haining in Selkirk are:

Inge Panneels @ Idagos,  is a glass artist who explores notions of space and place through the medium of glass and using mapping as a visual language and metaphor.

Felicity Bristow, Felicity’s work in paper and print is an exploration of line, material and the pervading spirit of place or ‘genius loci’. Through her work she explores personal journeys through her local Scottish Borders landscape recording physical and emotional experiences by using repetitive motifs or marks to indicate time, space and distance. The Remeandering series of prints shown in this years Art Trail are recent works inspired by the River Tweed.

 Niall Campbell, Visual Arts.  Recent works that explore the idea of the innate as the catalyst in the creative process and the ideas that evolve as part of this journey.

Hannah Longmuir,  Hannah is an artist and illustrator who uses her pencil to explore the countryside around her. She focuses on elements in the landscape – a fence post or a bird or a leaf – and draws attention to the detail. She likes her drawings to be delicate, calm, and filled with character.

Lynda Marwood, My work inhabits the space between abstraction and figuration. My inspiration comes from the act of painting and drawing and how my senses respond to the world around me. My process involves creating a dialogue between the object, the materials and my senses in an attempt to find a visual resolution.