Visual art, Painting & drawing, free events

Work by local artists and craftspeople. All pieces are for sale at affordable prices.

Approximately 35 Artmap Argyll artists open their studios to the public for the fifth year running to show off their skills in painting, fused glass, weaving, wood turning, wallpaper design, sculpture, basket and willow weaving, glass engraving, printmaking, stone carving and ceramics.

Work by abstract autobiographical artist Lainey Waddell.

Showcase of work by students from Leek School of Art.

Contemporary works created by the artist and illustrator. The work is darkly comic and strongly influenced by vintage erotica, commercial imagery and toys with traditional expectations of narrative.

A BIG fair with a twist, complementing the Artists Open Houses. Over 40 stalls under one roof. Past and present students from the University’s Art School will be exhibiting and selling their unique work alongside local inspirational artists and designers. An eclectic mix of student and professional artwork will be on…

The artist presents oil paintings and sculptural ceramics exploring folklore and wildlife.

A stroll down the Royal Mile will confirm to even the most philosophically sceptical observer that tartan and highland dress are, as they say, Emblems of Scottish National Identity. This exhibition examines what the tartan meant to six people painted between 1680 and 1780.

Works by major botanical artists from around the world.

Contemporary design drawings and works on paper created by the world's best-known stained glass artist and Oldham local. Drawing on everyday experience his works explore line and colour.

Works by artists including Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Constable, Blake, Rossetti, Spencer, Freud and David Hockney, shedding light on the central role of drawing in portraiture, landscape, romanticism and minimalism.

This Chinese Painting exhibition will only be on for one day. Water colours, Batiks, books, mats and cards, by the artist, will also be on sale. During the day there will be live music, performed by a variety of musicians, a demonstration of Chinese Painting at 1pm by the artist, and chance to relax and buy refreshments.

Large abstract oil paintings by Aberdeen artist J Gordon Brown.

A look at the way contemporary artists use costume as part of their work, featuring contributions from Rachel Adams, Steven Cairns, Matthew Darbyshire, Alexis Marguerite Teplin, Rachel Maclean, Sophie Macpherson, Charlotte Prodger and Clare Stephenson. Ages 12+.

A workshop for artistically inclined adults to get their hands messy. Booking is essential.

The world's oldest Gothic cemetery is the inspiration for 21 different artists who've create stie-responsive works.

Paintings and drawings of wildlife from the South Africa-born artist.

The urban landscape artist captures the energy and sprawl of the capital and its people in paintings and drawings.

Exhibition that provides an in-depth survey of the artist's colourful paintings, drawings and three-dimensional installation work.

Immersive drawings, ripped straight from Bray's sketchbooks, and Powell's hand-drawn portraits on vintage envelopes and manuscripts.

Contemporary paintings, drawings and illustrations created by the local artist depicting journeys linked by the theme of time.