Published: Thursday, 15th May, 2008 08:00
Art, photos and poems
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THE contrasting styles of four very different artists feature in the latest combined exhibition to open at Peter Potter Gallery.
Haddington-raised Simon Crofts, an international-prize winning photographer, is making a welcome return to the gallery with his exhibition Folks and Things.
Simon divides his time between East Lothian and his European base, in the Polish city of Krakow.
His photographic work takes him around the world, but in the main concentrates on central and eastern Europe. He has a long-standing interest, in particular, in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, the Czech republic and Slovakia.
In addition to previous Peter Potter shows, Simon’s work has been shown locally at the French Institute in Edinburgh.
Folks and Things‚ includes photographs taken in Haddington, Edinburgh, London, Paris and Copenhagen, in addition to Krakow and other Polish towns and cities.
Edinburgh-based Judith Rowan’s exhibition provides a glimpse of the creative process behind evolving art works. Entitled Missing‚ it was inspired by the man-made objects she picked up on Dunbar’s streets and harbour area.
In each work an image is paired with an accompanying short poem, by the artist herself, or by Dunbar artist and poet Lesleymay Miller.
In contrast to the above, Dalkeith artist Colin Robertson’s landscape studies of the Scottish Highlands, the Borders and East Lothian, offer a more traditional style of painting.
To complete the quartet of artists, Colin Ian Christie is showing a series of acrylic still life flower studies, and landscapes of Scottish islands, including Iona, Harris and the Summer Isles.
The combined exhibition runs daily until May 22.
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