Stone & Bloom

Stone & Bloom brings together three distinct artistic voices, each offering a deeply personal interpretation of the natural world shaped by memory, experience and emotion. Expanding on this shared theme, the exhibition explores nature alongside urban life, inviting viewers to consider how both environments are not only seen, but felt, carried through time, transformed by place and reimagined through individual perspective.

Feature artist Erraid Gaskell presents a series of vivid, dreamlike landscapes that blur the boundaries between countryside and city, reality and imagination. Drawing on a life lived across continents, from the Scottish Highlands to Bangladesh and beyond, her paintings form an inner geography where fields, architectural forms and glowing windows coexist. These layered compositions reflect the experience of moving between urban and natural environments, where memory and place overlap. Recurring motifs such as distant crofts and illuminated windows speak to ideas of home, movement and belonging, capturing the quiet tension of existing between places.

In contrast, Greer Ralston brings a powerful physicality to the exhibition through her sculptural depictions of flowers and birds. With a background in figurative painting, her works treat blooms as individual presences, bold, expressive and often symbolic. Pieces such as A Bed of Roses and Forget Me Not weave together themes of renewal, memory and spirit, reflecting her lifelong connection to nature and the enduring influence of her rural upbringing. For Ralston, the flower becomes both subject and protagonist, imbued with character and meaning.

Charmaine Boyle’s work offers a quieter, more intimate encounter. A self taught artist who grew up surrounded by the wildlife and landscapes of South Africa, Boyle paints florals that feel deeply personal and emotionally resonant. Her recent works, created using a more immediate alla prima approach, explore tenderness, longing and stillness through soft, gestural compositions. For Boyle, painting is both refuge and release, a way to translate lived experience into moments of calm, inviting viewers to slow down and reconnect with the subtle beauty of the natural world.

Together, these three artists create a rich and nuanced dialogue. From Gaskell’s layered landscapes shaped by both city and countryside, to Ralston’s bold, symbolic forms, and Boyle’s gentle, introspective blooms, Stone & Bloom explores the space between the external and the internal, where nature and urban life intertwine, and where memory, emotion and human connection quietly unfold.

Stone & Bloom opens Saturday 11th April, 10:30 am – 4:30 pm.

Join us 2 – 4 pm to meet Erraid, Charmaine, and Greer, a wonderful opportunity to hear about their work firsthand. 

No booking required - All welcome!