Browse Artists

‘It comes to us in waves’ speaks of themes around loss and restoration. This metaphor is explored using a range of media, including repurposed fragments of Portobello pottery, printmaking and film.

Bea McMillan, Greta and Thea Chambers show a collection of work involving installation, projection and sculpture in response to liminal space, shifting nature and the female form.

Joanna works in watercolour, acrylic paint, and ink, creating work inspired by the coastline. She loves bright colour and experiments to capture the feeling of calm that comes from looking out to sea.

Limited edition works, and smaller pieces, on paper in a range of printmaking techniques.

A variety of printmaking and photographic techniques on paper and fabric, including artists books. Inspired by a love of geography, geology and the natural world, but often with an unexpected twist.

Paper, silk viscose satin, velvet, plywood sublimation prints. Collections: Enchanted Forest & Sunset Grove, exploring how shifting visual distortions can create beautiful, often overlooked patterns.

Boyle’s artworks and fine art monoprints combine texture, vibrant colour, bold forms and collage to create playful and often emotionally charged worlds guided by the unconscious.

Becky makes drawings that function as stage sets and photographs her daughter inside them.

Oil paintings that explore the connection between people and land through archives linked to the artist's grandparents farmhouse in Eskdale, situated on a 17-acre Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Visit Portobello Library to view the two Giant Charcoal Drawings develop across the two weekends of AWW. Also visit Damian (Venue 18) as he sketches out the comings and goings on Portobello Prom and Beach.

Over the course of each weekend Damian Callan will create a Giant Charcoal Drawing inspired by and featuring the people who pass by on the Promenade and on Portobello beach. Visit Portobello Library after each weekend to see the giant drawings on display.

Felix is a visual artist with a practice that investigates the relationships between language, imagery and the traditions and ideas surrounding memory and memorial.

Patrick paints the natural world with an expressive, layered style, using colour and texture to bring animals and landscapes to life. His work blends structure with emotion, creating scenes with feeling.

Alison will exhibit an energetic, semi-abstract collection of water-based drawings and paintings developed during Walk & Draw and Plein Air expeditions happening both locally and in the Highlands.

Jane will show a series of small, mixed media pods, with the concept of de-cluttering, ‘plein air’ sketches in watercolour and pencil and ink sketches of domestic utensils.

Bringing some colour, texture and pattern with her this year, Solen is creating mixed media pieces around the abstraction of flowers in vases. Collage, oils and acrylics, cyanotype and photography.

An outdoor bannerwork showcasing work by local photographers created in response to this year’s title of Shift & Flow, embracing a number of different responses.

A selection of new, hand-printed original linocuts of the wild birds that Caroline has encountered around Scotland.

Sue will be showing stained glass artworks created using traditional and contemporary glass painting methods and construction. She is influenced by the flora and fauna of the natural world.

The work shown is a collection of oil paintings and drawings, mostly depicting quiet moments of interior scenes, capturing the atmosphere of the everyday.

Judy is an amateur artist who rejoices in colour and produces atmospheric landscapes in pastel, oil or acrylic and vibrant still lifes in watercolour, oil or acrylic.

Fluid, expressive abstract painting meets laser cut geometric precision, as metaphors and unconscious symbols come to life in Lewis Deeney's dream like paintings.

A series of toned cyanotype prints capturing tidal movement at Musselburgh, developed in seawater and toned with locally foraged plants, assembled into a looping animation shown alongside the prints.

Graphic art prints: Pulse Maps from cartographer/designer, Ian Dewsbery.

James Donald is a Scottish weaver and textile artist whose work blends traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design. He creates textiles using locally sourced lambswool, Shetland wool, and other natural fibres.

Inspired by nature and the sea – real and abstract images are captured in fused glass.

Velvet Easel Gallery present their summer exhibition showcasing a range of work from Scotland-based artists.

Rosa Gally's work spans from functional ceramics to abstracted wooden and textile sculptures. Regardless of medium or form, her work explores and depicts nature and our place within it.

Mixed media paintings exploring the intersection of sky and shoreline at Portobello beach.

Moira is exhibiting a series of oil paintings alongside drawings and monoprints. Her work is figurative with a focus on personal stories and reflections.

Teresa's work includes a series of oil and watercolour paintings and sketches of the sky and environment from overlooking the Irish Sea and surrounding Galloway.

Peter combines 70 years of design, art and craft skills and experience with his sense of natural beauty to create original, modern, jewellery using silver, semi-precious stones and bright enamel.

Eleri is a pen and watercolour artist deeply inspired by nature and historical architecture. Her detailed linework and colour washes celebrate both heritage and the natural world.

A bright and bold collection of oil paintings and collages from Denise Horn, where nailbars and pantomimes are featuring strongly, work that is filled with memories.

Edinburgh Inky Fox creates detailed ink and mixed media illustrations of local landmarks and urban wildlife, with an emphasis on the local fox. Original works, prints, cards and more.

‘Flux’ touches on the changes in emotion that are experienced when land, sea, sky and people meet and how the convergence of nature and humans influences wellbeing.

The swirling motion of fluid dynamics forms the basis of this series of paintings by Felicity Inkpen. Trained as a scientist, Felicity creates dynamic, vibrant paintings that capture movement and chaos.

Agnes is a sculptor who draws in steel, creating pieces that seem sketched in air.

Watercolour paintings exploring light and colour on buildings and landscapes. New Portobello scenes, and paintings recalling fleeting effects of light and colour on journeys through the countryside.

James’s unique wooden craft items are functional and appealing. Model ferries, door knockers, benches, homeware, jersey stretchers and graphics are displayed. New designs created every year.

Jewellery, paintings, and sculpture inspired by the Scottish coast and landscape. Daniel focusses on the raw textures and emotive qualities of the landscape to capture the spirit of the sea and land.

Hanna Lehtinen is a multimedia visual artist, working across sculpture, drawing and printmaking to explore the subtleties of inter-species relationships, within and beyond the ocean.

Helen’s practice draws on small and overlooked elements of space and ‘flickers’ found in the everyday. This new work explores the boundary where sea meets land as transient images appear and dissolve.

Anna grows eight types of willow in the patch. Some of them are stout, making them ideal for a basket’s skeleton. Anna aims to contrast the dappled hues of the different willow barks within her work. Working basketmaker’s studio.

(Please note Anna's studio at Eastfield is about a 12-minute walk along Seaview Terrace from the end of Portobello Promenade, or take bus 19 or 26).

Lively colourful slipware pots that are made for use. The pieces have fun, illustrative decorations with themes including hedgerow plants and berries, wild swimming, bikes, and pottery collections.

Michelle Lowe presents new pieces exploring shift and flow through textured, slab-built forms imprinted with foraged materials and finished with fluid glazes, evoking erosion and organic movement.

A painter living and working in Scotland. Her interests lie in the pattern, colour, shape and texture found in the serendipity of everyday scenarios. It’s a two-way relationship between artist and work.

“The Print Shack” will be open to show new work from Claire. There will be relief prints, screen prints, drawings and paintings. The theme will be birds and fish of South America from recent travels.

A series of small oil paintings exploring colour and scale. Sally Mackay’s carefully composed still lives include plants, animals and other objects to create new tiny communities.

Alasdair Maclauchlan is an artist based in Prestonpans whose work centres on landscape and the everyday environment around Edinburgh, East Lothian and Argyll.

Sheila Maclean is a fine artist and printmaker showing cyanotype and watercolour artworks.
Images are ‘inspired by the sea and created in the sun’, reflecting the mediums tonal and translucent qualities

Fiona is a printmaker using a variety of printmaking techniques exploring themes of birds and people printing onto pianola roll and other papers. She makes printmaking starter packs which she sells.

Jenny Martin is a painter and printmaker and is showing work based on travels in Spain and Morocco. Colour and pattern are central to her work, and visitors can see inside her busy, chaotic studio.

Vibrant and dynamic illustrations and prints inspired by the themes of childhood, play and nature.

Elisabeth is an emerging photographer. She will be showing images in colour and sepia from two of her recent areas of interest – urban landscapes and abstracts.

An artist/jeweller who predominantly works with vitreous enamel on silver. She also works with other materials such as mosaic to create bold statement pieces.

Dead and discarded plant and animal lifeforms, foraged from forest and seashore, woven and stitched into strange evocative constructions.

Rosie's work this year will include the (mainly) smaller scale oils she has been focussing on recently, while also casting a retrospective glance back to the past.

Sculptural installation led by generative material exploration, inspired by ever-fluctuating internal and external landscapes, water movement, coastal horizons and health data.

Craigmillar Tapestry Project and Craigmillar Art Club collaborate to exhibit over 20 tapestry panels and a range of visual artwork, celebrating the creativity in Craigmillar and Niddrie. Open only 12 Sept (10-5), 13 Sept (1-5).

This series of drawings, paintings and prints responds to early films about the sea, shifting their watery imagery from one medium to another.

Sam Sharma's prints and paintings explore the body in relation to water and the sea. Her enquiry engages with the life cycle, physical and psychic transitions, and the interplay of internal and external worlds.

Karl exhibits his colourful paintings and collographic work of people and landscapes reflecting humour or mood. Alongside are framed and mounted works for sale plus his hundreds of gift card designs.

A series of abstract works on paper employing a variety of techniques with oil paint, pen, pencil and collage, inspired by the flow of the human body amongst the environment that permeates it.

The work has two distinctive styles. Assemblages made from a variety of materials and paintings. The assemblages relate to elements of a constructed world while the paintings are of the natural world.

Polly Thelwall builds an installation of sculpture painting and sound recorded from intertidal zones. Place and creation will merge in a shifting of perception and focus, conjoining land and sea.

A series of oil on canvas works in response to the Art Deco movement combining historical academic style with the modernity of the avant-garde.

Work on show will include recent etchings and monoprints of Arctic environments, together with mixed media works developed from time spent in forests, both locally and further afield.

Em will be exhibiting a range of landscape oil and watercolour paintings inspired by the wild northern landscapes of Scotland.

Chris is a professional cartoonist who appears in publications such as Big Issue and Private Eye. His cartoons reflect on the absurdities of everyday life and the ever-changing political landscape.

'TOGETHER' is a 25min slow-dissolve video installation by David Williams with audio by Lee Arthur Patterson. Selected images from the piece are available for purchase as cards.