To open our Summer Art Series 2016 we featured three artists whose work, in different ways, has a strong sculptural quality. Angus Ross is one of Scotland’s most acclaimed designers and makers of furniture. His work combines beauty, craftsmanship and functionality. Caroline Pearce’s collection of abstract ceramic sculptures are inspired by the extraordinary patterns of the tree bark in our woodlands. The huge skies at Kinmonth were the creative stimulus for Caroline Boyle’s ceramics, whose free form follows a planetary theme. Our ceramic artists were in residence during the exhibition. |
Caroline Pearce BarkCaroline was born in the Netherlands, but has been living in Scotland’s Perthshire Highlands for the last eight years.
After qualifying as an architect, Caroline worked freelance for several years, interspersed with periods of travel in Africa, Asia and South America. More recently she spent 3 years in the Falkland Islands, until moving to Scotland in 2007. Caroline’s passion is the process of creating beautiful things. She has worked in most media, but in recent years she has returned to ceramics. She loves the tactile aspects of moulding clay, and the excitement and uncertainty of firing and glazing. |
Caroline Boyle In the Night SkyCaroline Boyle is a modern languages graduate. After a varied career working in international shipping, finance and political campaigning, a glorious sabbatical spent in Rome in 2009 was the inspiration for leaving the desk job behind and moving to a house in Abernethy built on the site of an old Roman camp. Surely meant to be! Whilst renovating the house and attempting to wrestle a garden out of thistles she has finally been able to pursue her lifelong love of ceramics. She found wonderful teachers to develop her skills and give her the confidence to start experimenting with clay and glaze.
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