gallery: Room for Art 2025-26

 I attend sessions at WHALES Art Centre, run by Room for Art 

(Art in Healtcare)

Here is a selection of some of my artworks

Of the prints,some involve experimental materials

Most are started and finished in a single 2-hour session

Gaza

The Aguish

(foam print)

Tristesse durera pour toujours

https://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk/art_and_artist/tristesse-durera-pour-toujours-gina-fierlafijn-reddie/

The Stand Off 

Billy

Madness

Gaza II

City Lights

(recycled materials print)

Bird

review 2024

2024 alas has seen very little artistic activity for various reasons.

Having finally stepped down as a trustee of granton:hub in December, I hope I will have more time to focus on my own work.

All the follwing works came about during the Wednesday lunchtime sessions at 'Room for Art' WHALE Arts. A few images are missing but the lino cutting will be revisited this year.

Mad Crow Gazing @Room for Art

 https://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk/art_and_artist/gina-mad-crow-grazing/

9-17 February 2024

Edinburgh Palette

Creative Minds at Edinburgh Palette organised by Room for Art

 exhibition 26 May 2023

I'm happy, hope you're happy too.

Exhibition in October 2022 - Re:Living exhibition at granton:hub (submission of work)

The focus of this work is a bouquet of roses. For many years now, I have received roses. Many women receive flowers, it is considered a tradition, customary, an occasion for every day. But each time I get a bouquet, a sense of sadness and momentary reflection comes over me. Roses have come for delightful and happy occasions, but also extremely sad and devastating ones. And at times, these moments were almost experienced simultaneously.  As years go by, roses come and go. Roses blend our lives.

In April this year, I photographically captured roses that, to me, offered a sense of eternity, beauty, but also fragility, an ephemeral presence. The roses lasted many days, more so than on any other occasion. And as they started to wither,  their colour became even more beautiful. And the roses reminded me of my infant son and mum, both gone now, many years in-between. I think of them every day and wished to record that moment. Coloured petals, fading. Fragile, a light burning.

My somber heart lit up (2022) - multi media, photographic print on acetate - displayed in a light box

Remember this too (2022) - photographic print on card

I never promised you a rose garden (2022) - multimedia, photographic print on acetate.

new blog for photos

 At the end of 2021 I decided to move all my Granton visual work into one blog

https://ravenmeetssun.blogspot.com/

Art and Heritage Sept 2021

I am organising this small art exhibition and utterly busy in the day job, so slightly delayed post here.

The weekend of 11-12 and 25-26 September the history hub at granton:hub is presenting: From the Past to the Future. They developed rich and informative display boards, all in all, multiple displays on Granton’s Industries, Transport, Harbour and Agriculture. In addition, a separate room is hosting the Edinburgh City Council Waterfront Development Display. To coincide with this heritage event, I am organising a sale of original artworks celebrating local scenery and heritage.

I have two works on display, one entitled Sanctuary I (about rubbish on our beaches) and a second one, an old favourite, the Granton Gasworks holder number 1. And somebody bought it!