ONE DAY CRAIGIE AITCHISON RA special 20%off Print offer! Sugarbush Wearing Hat, Wayney and Holy Island - we are celebrating the launch of our new website!!- link in bio and discount code. (ends is midnight Sunday 5 July) Craigie Aitchison published two very special prints with Rabley Editions in 2009 . The subjects are his beloved Bedlington terriers ‘Wayney’ and ‘Sugarbush’. Limited numbers of these etchings are available exclusively from Rabley Gallery. #craigieaitchison #dogsofinstagram #specialoffer #collectprints #ifpda #royalacademyofarts #scottishartist #bedlingtonterrier #holyisland Craigie Aitchison was born in Edinburgh in 1926, and studied Law at Edinburgh University (1944-46) and then at the Middle Temple in London in 1948. He changed career in 1950, returning to Edinburgh to practice painting before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art (1952-54) under William Coldstream and Robert Medley, and alongside Paula Rego and Euan Uglow. In 1955 Aitchison was awarded the British Council Italian Government Scholarship for painting and travelled to Italy, which had a profound influence upon his work. His first solo exhibition was at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London in 1959, and he continued on to have significant retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery in 1981, at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow in 1996 and at the Royal Academy in London in 2003. In 1994 he won the first ever Jerwood Painting Prize and won the Nordstern Art Prize in 2000. He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Art in 1978 and a Senior Member in 1988, and he was made a CBE in 1999. He died in 2009. Several of his works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Scotland and Tate Gallery

‘Wayney’ was one of Craigie Aitchison’s favourite dogs. His use intense purple hums from the surface of this etching and its simplified forms and subject are classic ‘Craigie’! Craigie Aitchison published two very special prints with Rabley Editions in 2009, . The subjects are his beloved Bedlington terriers ‘Wayney’ and ‘Sugarbush’. . I remember taking the finalised prints to his house in Kennington for signing and drinking vodka from a coffee mug to celebrate their completion.Limited numbers of these etchings are available exclusively from Rabley Gallery - link in bio. #colourist #scottishartist Craigie Aitchison RA Wayney, 2009 Carborundum, etching and collage 76 x 50cm Edition 50 #craigieaitchison #royalacademy #collectprint #bedlingtonterrier #craigieaitchisondogs #dogsofinstagram #ifpda

pure and luminous colour - Craigie Aitchison RA, Holy Island, 2001 Etching, Aquatint and Carborundum 67 x 61cm available from #Rabley Gallery #craigieaitchison #prints #colourist #holyisland visit our website to see more prints by this artist. Link in bio. Craigie Aitchison is particularly well known for his still-lifes, landscapes, nudes, portraits, dogs, and his idiosyncratic crucifixions and, alongside this subject matter, for his distinctive style consisting of simplistic, flat, stylised forms.

Amy- Jane Blackhall, Recollect II, 2020 - in The Faraway Nearby, Exhibition ends 13 July. Amy-Jane Blackhall is exhibiting new prints and sculpture in ‘The Faraway Nearby’ exhibition. A new series of silver gelatine prints document her collections – plants, stones, gems; to recall facets of memory that she then translates into print. She is fascinated by the journey these objects have endured from foreign lands to their current residence in her home with ‘her gaze and ‘her touch’. #sacredobjects #collectprint #amyjaneblackhall #ownart #interiordssign

Katherine Jones ‘Folding Inside Outside’, 2020, 91 x76cm at Rabley Gallery - Exhibition The Faraway Nearby Ends 13 July. Gallery Open By Appt. Katherine Jones makes distinctive images that are inhabited by ordinary objects, spaces and buildings. Often the structures depicted are fragile or vulnerable, covered or transparent. They are a framework the artist uses to begin to question perceptions of safety and danger. These issues are under the surface of her everyday as an artist –mother and an individual in a challenged world environment. #print #windyday #collectprint #ownart #katherinejones #rableygallery

#Repost @merylainslie with @get_repost ・・・ ‘Their Indian Eyes’ is a series of 6 folded silver pieces currently being exhibited in The Faraway Nearby’ @rableygallery - Ends 13 June, open by appt. link In bio. ‘Meryl Setchell Ainslie makes silver sculpture in response to journeys. Six tokens, in folded silver hold a photograph of an Indian eye, deliberately unidentified and embellished with gemstones. These are speaking objects; behind each eye is a storyteller’ Artists: #PrudenceAinslie, #Amy-JaneBlackhall, #HelenBarff, #KatherineJones, #RebeccaSalter RA, #MerylSetchellAinslie, #SallyTaylor

Katherine Jones and Helen Barff ‘Map of Clouds and Islands’ collaborative work concerns both the geography of the story and its relationship to the body. From a single sail they unstitched to create two halves, each artist worked on one half. The sail will come together to tell their stories. THE FARAWAY NEARBY Ends 13July. Open by appointment. #artoutoflondon An exhibition of works on paper, print and sculpture that explores intimate distance, memory and the stories that connect us; inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s book ‘The Faraway Nearby’. Artists: #PrudenceAinslie, #Amy-JaneBlackhall, #HelenBarff, #KatherineJones, #RebeccaSalter RA, #MerylSetchellAinslie, #SallyTaylor

Waiting happily for my last visitor appointment to the gallery today - Evening sunlight in the courtyard garden, glass of wine in hand! Current exhibition The Faraway Nearby The Faraway Nearby An exhibition of works on paper, print and sculpture that explores intimate distance, memory and the stories that connect us. Artists: #PrudenceAinslie, #Amy-JaneBlackhall, #HelenBarff, #KatherineJones, #RebeccaSalter RA, #MerylSetchellAinslie, #SallyTaylor #rableygallery

New publication by Amy Jane Blackhall, Recollect, 2020, Intaglio 16.5 x 16.5cm, Edition 30 The Faraway Nearby OPEN BY APPOINTMENT An exhibition of works on paper, print and sculpture that explores intimate distance, memory and the stories that connect us. Artists: #PrudenceAinslie, #Amy-JaneBlackhall, #HelenBarff, #KatherineJones, #RebeccaSalter RA, #MerylSetchellAinslie, #SallyTaylor @r #rableygallery