WELCOME TO ABERLADY OPEN STUDIOS

Graham Odds

Digital Artwork

Graham explores the boundaries between generative systems, data visualisation and machine-drawn abstraction. His work focuses on the emergence of pattern and the interplay of geometry and texture.

Kate Millbank

Printmaking

Kate is a print and pattern maker. She is inspired by the natural world and her work is a celebration of the native flora and fauna of the British Isles and in particular Scotland (where her studio is based). Sustainability and craft are at the heart Kate's design ethos.

Alastair Higgins

Painting

Having a background in art and design I've only gone back to painting in the last couple of years, after a 30year hiatus. I mostly paint local landscapes (acrylic) and try as much as possible to keep it in and around Aberlady.

Kirsty Odds

Weaving

Kirsty is a handweaver, who works from her garden studio as Hopipola Handwovens creating fresh, contemporary pieces predominantly for use in interiors and accessories on traditional looms.  The seasons are often reflected in her work, whether influencing colours, textures or yarns.

Eve Sladdin

Printmaking & Illustration

Eve is an Artist & Printmaker. Based in her garden studio, Eve’s work takes two forms, botanical linocut prints and pen & ink landscapes, both are inspired by the local East Lothian landscape.

Barbara Gray

Illustration & Poetry

I write poems and make images inspired by my surroundings in East Lothian. I am inspired by linking my thoughts and feelings into seasonal changes through my observations of local wildlife and nature. 

David Fleetwood

Printmaking

David is a printmaker, poet and photographer. Based in East Lothian he draws inspiration from the landscape locally and internationally, often combining images with words in a single creative response to the landscape.

Rachel Stewart

Illustration, Knitting & Writing

Rachel Stewart is a mixed media illustrator and writer whose work spans children’s books, short stories, and visual storytelling. She also runs local community choirs, including the Aberlady Singers and Big and Small Choir, bringing people together through shared voices and creativity. Currently, she is stepping outside her

Sam MacDonald

Metalwork Sculptures

I grew up on the Isle of Lewis and, after 4 years at Camberwell School of Arts, lived on Orkney for 19 years. This enabled my love of fishing, diving and the sea to combine with my developing skills in metalwork.  

Kyriakos Kalorkoti

Photography

I am a photographer using mostly a large format camera with transparency film.  Reflecting on my aims early on, I summed them up with the phrase: I make images with the landscape not of it.

Olive Mcintosh

Knitting

Olive (Tulip Girl),  has been knitting since she was 10 years old when her mother showed her what a good yarn could do.  Infatuations have been many and diverse over the years but current passions are fair isle designs, soft tweed yarn and all things sustainable.

Leigh Roberts

Magic Little Letters

I love painting portraits, illustrating, fairies and magic, so I have combined them all to create magical letters that appear to be sent from mythical creatures. I aim to make the letters as authentic and 'non-computery' as possible.

Chloe Gardner

Collage & Mixed Media

Chloe Gardner is principally a collage artist working in feathers sticking down layers and layers of feathers to make animals. Favourites include penguins, elephants, puffins, a robin, a bear and a labrador.

Julie Barnes

Painting

Julie is an award-winning artist and visual storyteller whose work draws on imagination, memory, and lived experience. She reveals the extraordinary within the ordinary, creating evocative narratives that engage both visible and unseen worlds.

Cheryl Jones

Illustration

East Lothian based artist who illustrates Scotland in a bold, colourful, fun fashion. Products guaranteed to make the receiver smile. From Cards, mugs, chocolates to gorgeous textiles.

Gareth Jones

Architect

Jones Robbins Tobin are a design led residential architecture practice, committed to delivering contemporary, contextual and ecologically considered high-end residential projects.

Bill Thompson

Painting

Having retired as a Chartered Design Engineer and following my love of art, I have taken up painting in acrylics focusing on the geometry of shapes

Linda Thompson

Painting

After completing my degree in Fine Art as a mature student, and now retired as a School Business Manager, I have continued to paint in water colour, acrylics and oils, experimenting with all subject matter; be it portraits, landscapes or abstractions.

Donald MacDougall

Painting

I have lived in East Lothian for 20 years. A great deal of my work is inspired by the astonishing woodland and ponds of the Gosford Estate where I am lucky enough to live.