Studio 44 gallery in Largs is presenting a group show by six artists from Millport Artists Collective: Art from a Small Island is inspired by the island’s distinctive landscapes, seascapes, traditions and stories, and features an eclectic mix of paintings, sculpture and ceramics. Artists exhibiting are Caroline Millar, Dorothy Bruce, Tim Saville, Mazda Munn, Gill Miller and Gregor Harvie.
A Scottish mixed-media abstract artist living on the Isle of Cumbrae, Caroline Millar’s work has been widely collected and exhibited, with career experience as a psychotherapist, creating the Indigoflow mindset tool for artists and working with Art2Life and ARTfuel, and a member of several art collectives.
Dorothy Bruce graduated from the Minneapolis School of Art, and has created lyrical and evocative Scottish landscape paintings on Cumbrae for many years, which have been widely exhibited.
Graduating from Camberwell School of Art and London University, Tim Saville has taught across the UK and internationally, returning to this country to found the Hunter Saville Gallery in Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae, which specialises in residencies and exhibitions for emerging artists. He creates two- and three-dimensional works inspired by archaeology and history.
Also based in Millport, Mazda Munn is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art who has worked as a commercial illustrator and in further education. Her illustrative artwork explores different abstract, surreal and graphic styles in a wide variety of 2D and 3D materials, inspired by natural and supernatural subjects. She was a founding member of the Millport Artists Collective.
Cumbrae-based ceramic artist Gill Miller is a graduate of Grays school of Art who explores of ceramics, seeking to capture the essence of Cumbrae’s shoreline, with its geological formations, textures and the timeless beauties of the sea’s ceaseless ebbs and flows, inviting the viewer to engage with the tactile quality of the materials.
Artist Gregor Harvie creates seductive images born from rigorous investigations of subjects such as the hidden structure of reality, drawing on fundamental patterns in physics, biology, religion, and art, exploring repeating forms pointing to underlying common truths and engaging with questions of the nature of existence, reflecting his fascination with how order and chaos interact.
