This JUNE, from the 15 till the 26

The 'NO WOMAN IS AN ISLAND' group will be exhibiting at The Birch Tree Gallery. The usual five of us will be joined this year by our good friend Doreen Boogart. Doreen is a very fine mono-printer and I for one am looking forward very much to what she will bring to this exhibition. Of the others: Kairen Bergius is our flamboyant colourist, a painter who revels in, yes, COLOUR and exuberant brush-work. Rona MacLean does beautiful, mostly screen-printed landscapes, often including her signature favourites - birch trees. Aileen Grant works harder than any of us. She is lucky enough to live in the wilds of Scotland's west coast and is generally out every day sketching what she sees. She does lovely paintings and prints which highlight her very expressive mark-making capabilities. Karen Rogers is the maker par excellence amongst us of the art of combining collage with paint. Recently she has been experimenting with making small, beautiful images using fabric and embroidery.  I hope to include images of my own made during our many sketching days and trips together.