Festival weekend of visual arts open studios festival Spring Fling.
Above and below left: snippets from life in Wigtown create beautiful window art:
Astrid Jaekel with her cardboard ‘stained glass’ scenes depicting scenes from local life – the gossip, local characters and daily goings-on. On show in the windows of Wigtown’s County Buildings.
Above right: Clog-maker Godfrey Smith in Balmaclellan.
Above: Jim Buchanan with his “Alpha Beta Theta” labyrinth at The Crichton complex in Dumfries – a former mental health assylum. Jim’s work reflects the workings of the human brain.
Above: McSheep-ish: sheep farmer-come-artist Helen Ryman painted two of her texel ewes in tartan.
Above: Painter Patricia Cain seen through her glass pallette.
Above: ceramics maker Peter Wareing in his Whithorn studio.
Above: printmaker and soft furnishings print designer Suzi Plunkett.
Pictures for Spring Fling and published in The Herald, Herald Online, The Scotsman, Metro, and Celebrate Scotland.
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