The Edinburgh Gallery
Address l8a Dundas Street

"Life Stories" by Karen McIntyre

Karen McIntyre's weaves fragments of stories into her art, as seen in the evocative titles of her works.

Her paintings verge towards the photographic. Working with a limited palette she creates wonderful realistic flesh tones and textures - just take a look at the nude in "Study for: One Thing is Certain".

I prefer less realistic interpretations, but if you like this sort of thing - enjoy!

The Time Closes l9th August at 3.00p.m.
Mon-Fri 11-5 Sat10-3

Exhibition 2- Festival Exhibition 11 - An Exhibition of Contemporary Art

There are eleven artists in this exhibition, all contemporary, but very different in style.

Andrew Fitzpatrick has created a series of witty paintings in which the mysterious interplay between the characters takes place at the opera.

The settings are typically painted in rich opulent shades of red and gold, and against this background he weaves his tales.

"Pleasure and Regrets" (see picture) shows a girl, with her back to a man in a dinner jacket. He is looking down at a carnation which he is holding in his buttonhole. She also has a carnation which she is gently sniffing. It becomes a guessing game: Was the pleasure before and the regrets after? Or vice-versa?

Another that caught my attention was Sheila Macmillan's landscape abstraction of "Lavender Fields, Provence", an impressionistic and visually pleasing piece. Her bold use of purples, cyclamen, lilacs and blue assume the forms of lavender fields, and in the distance one can see the outline of a turreted building silhouetted against the skyline.

Touches of yellow add warmth to a cool palette. In the foreground there is a slightly bizarre shape which appears to be the head of a bird.

The Time - 21st August - 5th September

Mon.-Fri. 11-5 Sat. 10-1.

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