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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Anoushka Havinden
Anoushka Havinden is an artist and writer. Her visual art focuses mostly on semi-abstract drawing and painting, and her poetry is widely published and has won several awards. She studied Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art, and now lives in Argyll. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally,…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Lou Graves
Lou Graves is a lifelong Glaswegian, illustrator, and artist, with a body of work encompassing two decades. He utilises his finely honed skills in drawing and painting to portray his remarkably vivid dreams – insights into a vaster, richer, truer world than our own; incredible landscapes where vast spiralling towers and staircases organically mingle with…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Sarah Oates
Sarah Oates is a photographer based in Glasgow who works primarily with analogue processes including 35mm film, medium format, and historic techniques such as wet plate collodion. Drawn to the slow, hands-on nature of film photography, Sarah explores the emotional tone of a scene through light, texture, and colour. Her images often feature reflections, soft…
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Vanessa Reynolds: Brighter Days
‘Brighter Days’ is a joint exhibition by Ayrshire based artists Vanessa Reynolds and Catherine McClure, who have brought together an eclectic mix of painted canvases, fluid art, botanic contact prints, mixed media, and stitch. They don’t think of art as a straight line – it is something that lives and breathes, guiding them this way…
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Catherine McClure: Brighter Days
‘Brighter Days’ is a joint exhibition by Ayrshire based artists Vanessa Reynolds and Catherine McClure, who have brought together an eclectic mix of painted canvases, fluid art, botanic contact prints, mixed media, and stitch. They don’t think of art as a straight line – it is something that lives and breathes, guiding them this way…
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Six Foot Book Club: June Reads
The Secret History by Donna TarttGenre: Psychological Fiction Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Catriona’s thoughts: The Secret History draws you deep into the insular world of an elite New England college, focusing on a secretive, eccentric group of Classics students whose intense, codependent bond unravels into a series of dark and unsettling consequences. Donna Tartt explores their moral…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Aoife Cawley
Aoife is a printmaker and textiles artist from county Kildare, working between Ireland and Scotland. Graduating in 2024 with First Class Honours in Contemporary Art Practice from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, her work explores folklore, mythology, history, and early Christian saints, blending traditional medieval art forms with contemporary techniques. Hi Aoife!…
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Six Foot Book Club: May Reads
Boy Parts by Eliza ClarkGenre: Literary FictionRating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fee’s thoughts: Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts is an unflinching exploration of female violence and power through the literal and metaphorical lens of a protagonist driven by the inexorable need to assert herself as a threat. Irina, a fetish photographer obsessed with capturing and, to greater and lesser…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Kayla Spence
Kayla Spence is based in Aberdeen, and graduated from Gray’s School of Art in 2024 with a degree in painting. They are an expressive artist, working primarily in oil and graphite. Their use of an organic, muted colour palette helps to capture a sense of place and reflects the natural tones of the hills. Kayla’s…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Alex Harrow
Alex Harrow is a multidisciplinary artist from Perthshire whose practice spans painting, relief prints, and sculpture. Known for his expressive mark-making and dynamic use of colour, his work explores the emotional complexities of life, capturing its light and shadow, joy and sorrow. In his solo exhibition, Capturing Life Through Colour, Alex brings together a body…
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