#FridayFavourites - Coffee and Cake

This week we were lucky enough to be included on Pinterest as part of their Coffee and Cake Feature.  A great honour considering the number of pinners there are out there.

We do love our coffee and cake here in the gallery. With so many local options, we really are spoilt for choice.

Filament coffee Pop Up (just up the street Great Flat Whites and featuring a small gallery of Red Door works)

Hula juice Bar (just down the street, our favourite juice bar, Their Whilrling Dirlish is our favourite)

Love Crumbs – Westport (a little bit more of a walk but definitely worth it for their devine cakes)

Mary’s Milk Bar (Coffee, amazing hot chocolates and the best ice cream in Edinburgh)

We’ve got lots of Coffee and cake related prints and accessories in the gallery so you can shout about your love for them.

Here are some of our favourites:

7 year Glitch by Seymour

All about Coffee Tea Towel and Matching Coasters by Stuart Gardiner

Coffee Is Good by Hello Memo

A selection of Cards By HAM and Alice Melvin

Make sure you get to indulge in your favourite this weekend!! What are your favourite Coffee Stops?

 

#FridayFavourites - Coffee and Cake

David Fleck Workshop

We thought you’d like to see how much work went into producing David Fleck Workshop, which was held last night at The Museum After Hours event on Chambers Street, Edinburgh.  It has been a while in the making and if you’ve been following this blog, you will have seen some of the progress.  Above you can see david collecting research photographs a-top The National Museum of Scotland.

David chose to focus upon the skyline, and expertly paired the bustling view down into silhouette shapes.  The final panorama is composed of 4 individual scenes.  Eachcene was then carefully hand cut out of board and pin board materials.  All cut by hand, by David Fleck in his Glasgow Studio.

The silhouette shapes were laid on top of each other, creating a three dimensional effect and the layers of board highlighting the outline of the buildings.

Each scene was then carefully mounted into a frame, making it sturdy enough for our eager workshop participants to add embellishments to the final design.

David Fleck adds his own embellishment first though, creating an elegant foreground scene, with the backdrop waiting to be completed.

We hope you’ve enjoyed this rare look into an artist’s process.  The final pieces will be on display in The National Museum of Scotland for about a month from today. If you can’t make it along, David Fleck’s work is available online for you to browse here and we will pop up some photos of the final pieces here next week.  Thanks to David and The National Museum of Scotland for having us along last night.

David Fleck Workshop

Hot Air Balloons

Artists often develop imagery that runs through their practice, adding debth to their folio, this is most definitely true of screen-printer, Freya Cummings and her love of Hot Air Balloons. Her newest print, “Westerly” (above) is an excellent example of her hot air balloon motif which is reminiscent of a rainbow, with added texture and hints of gold and silver foiling.Freya’s works mix the photo real with sketched details, repeat patterns and overlapping layers to produce a real 3 dimensional feel to her imagined scenes.This week, Freya has expanded her range of works to include for the very first time, digitally printed greetings cards and notebooks.

While neither the card sets or note book can include the hint of gold and silver foil which adds so much depth to her elaborate screen prints, the charm, patternation and timeless vintage feel comes through in her notebook covers to inspire you to doodle, draw or write within.

Freya’s lstest collection also includes some prints which reference the natural world, exploring some of the backgrounds to her hot air baloon sceens in more detail.  Click here to view her full collection.

 

Hot Air Balloons

Edinburgh inspired artworks

The historic Grassmarket has proven an enticing subject for many of our Illustrators and artists, above you’ll see Susie Wright’s screenprint and below Eilidh Muldoon’s digital print, both of whom have a larger range of Edinburgh inspired artworks.  It is interesting to see how differently two artists treat similar subjects, so we’ve pulled together a few other local talents to shine a spotlight on this beautiful, Festival filled city of ours.The bustling Grassmarket is a home to a fabulous mix of shops, cafes, pubs and the weekend market sees the location being used as intended with stall holders selling their wares come rain or shine.  Well worth a wonder through if you are in town.

Above is Heather More’s interpretation of the Edinburgh Skyline, clearly composed to highlight The Scot Monument, Edinburgh castle and a few famous Fringe venues too.  Heather has captured Edinburgh as you find it today, a little dreich, good “Auld Reekie”.

Above is Libby Walker’s excellent black and white digital print titled “Mile Long Street”.  While the title of this piece is suggestive of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, the details, shops and places shown are not all to be found on this famous street.  The Red Door Gallery is in there and we are very happy here on Victoria Street.  What Libby’s print shows, is a route taken wondering around the old town, choosing her favourite spots to pop in along the way.  The layered up composition is reminiscent of our higgledy-piggledy streets which loop up and over in a charming, yet often confusing way.  David Fleck’s “Kites Over the Crags” is his newest addition to his array of Edinburgh prints.  The textures created in this print add to the atmosphere of Edinburgh, once again creating a dreich feel to the city, enhanced by the cheery kites, making the most of the busteling breeze.

Just when you think Edinburgh is all greys, along comes Kate Mclelland to remind you there is plenty of colour in this town!  Blues of the sky in summer, the bright greens of our many gardens and the odd splash of fireworks too, espcially at this time of year!

Our special selection of Edinburgh and Scottish themed art works can be found here.

Edinburgh inspired artworks

Paper Crafting Poppies

We had such a super evening paper-crafting Poppies with Kirsty Baynham at The National Museum of Scotland on Friday that we want to share a few snaps of the evening with you. Above you can see our welcome table where Red Door Gallery-ettes Nicky & Claire and Illustrator Kirsty herself welcomed a lovely audience to our workshop.

We had a small, curated exhibition of Kirsty’s print works, which showcases her style and interest in combining the organic shapes of the animal kingdom with contrasting, geometric shapes to produce glorious pattern based art works.

For this “After Hours” event, the Museum had invited The Red Door Gallery team to produce a workshop, taking inspiration from their “Common Cause” exhibition. The strong visual connection of the “many hands” shown above is reminiscent of the exhibition title.And of course, is reminiscent of the many hands of a crafter’s circle!   The main shape of the crafting project was circlar too – in the form of a geometric poppy.  A WW1 symbol of remembrance, the poppy was adopted by illustrator Kirsty Baynham as her central motif. Each leaf of the poppy has a different “War Animal” illustrated upon it, including the horse, a dog, some ponies and a carrier pigeon.   Each leaf detaches from the centre of the poppy, and is actually a tiny envelope.  Each petal in ruled on the reverse to form a tiny notelet to share with friends and family as a keepsake.  The hand doubles as a hanging device which can be kept and displayed once all the letters have been sent.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined in the workshop, please do send us some photos of your final pieces as you choose to display them.  Thanks also to Kirsty for her remarkable design work, and to The Museum for inviting to join in such a fantastic event.

We will be taking part in this coming Friday’s event too, with illustrator, artist and architect, David Fleck.  Click here, for more information on the other events included in your ticket.

To view more of Kirsty’s work, please click here:

Paper Crafting Poppies

"Kites Over The Crags"

This hand carved block print featuring Edinburgh Castle is an exclusvie piece, just in from David Fleck, titled “Kites Over The Crags”.  At just £75 this is limited to an edition of just 30 and we think you’ll agree, this piece captures the castle from an unusual angle with the famous Crags of Arthur’s Seat adding an inspired compositional detail.

Fans of Fleck’s work, will recognise the Kite as a familiar motif, from his earlier works such as Komal (below):

And the much saught after keddesh, which is now sold out (it was available as a screenprint, edition of 50), but a similar image has been converted into a jazzy i phone case, available for the i phone 4 or 5, for £20, here:

If you enjoy David’s work, why not pop along to The National Museum of Scotland’s After Hours event this Friday and take part in our interactive event, produced in colaboration with David Fleck.

 

 

"Kites Over The Crags"

Kirsty Baynham Illustrations

This week’s Friday Favourites features just Kirsty Baynham illustrations, whose intricate style gives you the joy of discovering a new detail each time you look at her prints.  Kirsty has a real love of folded symmetry, animals and of combining the two!  Kirsty’s latest project has been to produce a workshop for an event we are hosting at tonight’s Museum After Hours event at The National Museum of Scotland.  We hope to see you there; tickets are available here and include a host of activities and fringe performances.  If you can’t make it along, look out for her geometric Remembrance poppy which will be making an appearance on this blog over the weekend.

Please click here to see Kirsty’s full collection, details of the above pieces are listed below, from top left to bottom right.

Fiola Rust (fox print) £25

Polygon, Treasure & Strawberry (large, landscape print) £40

Farm Floral, Vivid Flora, Lumo Triangle &  Notebooks, £8 each

Raincloud Bears (middle right, print) £25

Allegory (wolf head print with patterned background) £25

Lux (Sleeping fawn, square print) £20

Set of 2 Mini notebooks, Owl & Geometric cover / Fawn & Geometric cover / Fox with Fawn & Geometric cover £4 per set

Daylight Through Lace (Owl print) £15

Kirsty Baynham Illustrations

Fractions of Hexagons

Lovely Pigeon’s fondness for geometric shapes had developed into pure addoration of triangles, which you will come to love as  fractions of hexagons after a wonder through her latest jewelery collection.  This is a journey through shapes in bright, bold coloured formica, paired with super shiny copper, brass and the occasional offering of soft grey for the more minimal outfit.  A geometry lesson for the sohpisticated magpie eye.

Copper and Formica Hexagon brooch £12

Copper and Formica Fraction brooch £12.

Copper and Formica Hexagon earrings £20

Copper and Formica Fraction earrings £20

Brass and Formica Hexagon brooch £12

Brass and Formica Fraction brooch £12

Brass and Formica Hexagon earrings £20

The Lovely Pigeon lives and works in Fife, Scotland where all her jewelery is made by hand.

Fractions of Hexagons

New Yummy, Peacock, Apple Pouches!

Cute enough to eat, or keep your snack in at any rate, presenting our New Yummy, Peacock, Apple Pouches!  Check out the full range here, for £28.

Fresh in from design team “Pleased to Meet” their products are retro with fine aesthetics and a certain, unquantifiable easiness. Their love for mid century design and childhood memories serve as inspiration for their ever evolving collection.  Prints below too, from £36.

New Yummy, Peacock, Apple Pouches!

"Museum After Hours" Festival events

Kirsty Baynham and David Fleck are preparing workshops for our “Museum After Hours” Festival events, here in Edinburgh.  These evening events are your chance to enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours with hand-picked performers, cabaret, music, bars and the spectacular exhibition, Ming: The Golden Empire.  The Red Door Gallery are delighted to b presenting workshops on Friday August 8th and Friday August 15.

Above and below you can see details of Kirsty Baynham’s paper crafting workshop, which will be included in your ticket price.  Her intricately detailed designs are inspired by the Museum’s Common Cause exhibition and the animals who served during World War 1.  This event takes place on Friday August 8th and tickets are available here.

David Fleck is hosting our second workshop on Friday August 15th and tickets are available here.  David Fleck’s large-scale, interactive piece is still under construction, but we have some photos of David gathering inspiration from the top of The National Museum of Scotland, just to give you a wee hint of what might be in store!

"Museum After Hours" Festival events