The artists

Ian Page
Brian Barclay
Terry Adams
Samihia

Ian Page
Ian Page was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland in 1962. A brief affair with "DUNCAN OF JORDANSTONE COLLEGE OF ART", in Dundee; followed High School before Ian set off on a nomadic 6 year journey travelling the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, painting in the summer, exhibiting and selling in the winters!

Ian has exhibited in galleries across Scotland. The Shetland and Orcadian Society commissioned an exhibition and his eclectic collection entitled “ THE ALBATROSS PERIOD" won many plaudets at the Edinburgh Festival, in 1988.

Ian now lives and works in Cumbernauld where he teaches ceramics and indulges his hobby of making musical instruments and passion for playing the Bagpipes. A new exhibition entitled, "CHANTER FEVER - An UNNATURAL HISTORY of the GREAT HIGHLAND BAGPIPE" comprises paintings, sculptures and poetry and will take place in Glasgow in 2004.

Brian Barclay
Brian Barclay was born in Fife and studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art. He now lives in Midlothian and has exhibited with the Society of Scottish Artists and in group exhibitions in Kirkcaldy Art Gallery, the Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington and the Leith Gallery. He has paintings in the collection of Fife region as well as private collections.

Recently championed by the Stenton Gallery in East Lothian, every Brian Barclay painting is a visual feast. He describes himself as a figurative painter and there is an open-ended, free-associative, dreamlike quality to his work which combined with his great technical ability and his preoccupation with light and mood, his fanatical attention to detail has begun to draw flickers of recognition among the high and mighty of the Scottish Art establishment.

Terry Adams
Another Fifer, Terry Adams said good riddance to a sales and marketing career and helped set up Gallery 42 in Kirkcaldy last year! He is learning to survive on inconsistent incomes and feels the pressure and frustration common to all new ventures. He confesses however that he is happier now than at any other point of his life. He is passionate about art and loves being around like minded, creative people. Terry is a truly experimental artist re-discovering and applying old techniques and developing new ones to solve the challenges that each picture presents. For inspiration he draws upon the beauty rugged natural Scottish land and sea as well as visual memory of his experiences and up-brining in Africa

Samihia
Samhia Kennet was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1982 and she attended the world famous Glasgow Art School with further study as a post graduate in Barcelona. A young lady with enormous vision and talent Samhia has already exhibited in Glasgow and London. Her bold uncompromising style and her passion to explore intimacy and beauty in the unconventional have marked her out as ‘one to watch’.