Our Annual Spring Open Call
April 3rd – 24th 2025
Opening Night Thursday April 3rd 7pm-9pm
Please direct all sales enquiries to sixfootgallery@gmail.com.
CECILLA VOLPI | NIKI MARATHIA | KLAUS PINTER | LEAH MCDONALD | DAVID MARTIN | HOPE REYNOLDS | JENNIFER CAINE | NEAVE MCCORMICK | CATHERINE MCCLURE | VANESSA REYNOLDS | CAT GEMMILL | RUARIDH LAW | CARLY MORRISON | SUE STEELE | HANNAH CORNISH | LOU GRAVES | ANNA BURGESS | JUNE BARTON | FEE CUIMEANACH | FIONA YOUNG | KATIE MCGROARTY | FREYA POVLSEN | JILLIAN MENDOZA | DAVID PATRICK | EMMA MCLAUGHLIN | ERIK RICHARD H | CHLOÉ GRIMES-BILTIS | AMY MCGUIRE | SARMED MIRZA | GEORGI TSENOV
This year’s show Keep Your Eye On The Doughnut, Not The Hole features an incredible collection of works by thirty artists leaning into joy, curiosity, and the often surreal pleasure of focusing on what is rather than what isn’t; pieces that embody the energy of the moment and the promise of what’s to come, in a myriad of mediums.
Original works available to buy from £25
Participating Artists
Cecilla Volpi
Cecilia is an Italian visual artist and photographer based in Scotland. After graduating with a degree in photography from Edinburgh Napier University, she embarked on a creative journey combining commercial work with personal projects of experimental nature, using both analogue and digital techniques. The photographic genres she focuses on are documentary and fine-art photography, often intertwining. There are two defined emotional and stylistic threads in her practice due to the divergence between her Italian identity and her new identity as an adult in Scotland; linked to idyllic memories of childhood and characterised by moody, mysterious and contemplative feelings. Her photography reflects this duality, distinguishing itself in a nostalgic and personal genre, linked to identity exploration and a craving for belonging.
@ceci.lialisbonart | ceciliavolpi.photography
Niki Marathia
Niki is a multidisciplinary designer and visual storyteller with a keen eye for evocative imagery. With a background in fine art, her work explores the intersection of colour, texture, and narrative. Drawing inspiration from environments and human connections, Niki’s work captures fleeting moments with depth and intention. Her latest exhibited work reflects her fascination with atmosphere and emotion, inviting viewers to engage with the subtle details that shape our perceptions.
@nikimarathia | nikimarathia.com
Klaus Pinter
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Leah McDonald
Leah is a visual artist working in and around Glasgow whose work verges on the absurd and disrupts the standard. Working with industrial materials such as wood and plastics, McDonald creates site-responsive art that is quietly precarious. Her work takes various forms including sculpture, prints, and installations, and is developed through light-hearted brainstorming and ultimately the enjoyment of making. Throughout her practice she addresses themes around class, social norms, and discomfort. Encouraging engagement, she pushes long-established boundaries and uses public interaction to fulfil her work.
Davardo
Personal and universal stories, fragmentation and recurrent motifs are all elements of Davardo’s art. However these occur in differentiated ways, forms, and versions. Some works are purely formed from hypnagogic or hypnopompic experiences that retain a kind of distorted image of something that has certain recognisable characteristics but is to all intents and purposes hallucinatory, like a charged particle on the luminal screen of consciousness and the subconscious. Whereas; the expressionist works are more fully formed although still retaining a dreamlike sense of representation. All these works have recognisable characteristics of narrative. What all have in common, that links the hypnagogic/hypnopompic to the expressionistic, narrative work is at heart a kind of tragic-comic framework that holds these disparate types together. They should be thought of as possessing some of the characteristics of comedy d’arte.
Hope Reynolds
Hope is a Fine Art graduate from Manchester School of Art, now based in Glasgow, where she has lived for the past year and a half. Her practice focuses on elevating natural and feminine subjects to a place of reverence, weaving in narratives of mythology and folklore. She aims to inspire viewers to consider their relationships with their surrounding environments and hopefully encourage a deeper care for the natural world. Hope is available for commissions of pet or human portraits, landscapes, and graphics. With original works starting at £35, she is happy to collaborate on any given project. Hope is a valued member of the team here at Six Foot Gallery.
@hopepaintz | hopereynolds.portfoliobox.net
Jennifer Caine
Jennifer is an art student currently finishing her third year of study at Duncan of
Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. Her work centres her experience of
queer femininity and Femme identity, drawing influence from Drag. Her interdisciplinary
practice examines the relationships between paint, transparency, and textile as they
interconnect through mixed media pieces and collections that incorporate costume
design alongside her paintings. She has previously worked in installation: the work
‘FEMME’ 2024 combined oil paintings, found objects, and setting to create a ‘dressing
room’ style space inspired by performer and queer icon Amanda Lepore. Currently she
is working on series of oil paintings featuring the feminine nude contained within the
walls of a shell, inspired by the connection between feminine melancholy and the
ocean, serving as a reaction to the lack of protection for feminine bodies that exist
outside of the prescribed standard of ‘womanhood’.
Neave McCormick
Paisley born painter and designer Neave has been developing a skill set in contemporary painting for the past several years. Obtaining an honours degree in printed textiles from the Glasgow School of Art in 2020, Neave has always had a passion for painting. Combining her training in textiles with more illustrative ideas, Neave produces painted and embroidered work that strives to convey a narrative as well as honouring her skills in pattern based working. Recently, McCormick’s work explores abstract landscapes and our relationship to the environment around us, drawing on inspiration from the natural world.
Catherine McClure
Catherine is an abstract expressionist painter who works from her home studio in Prestwick, Ayrshire. She works across a variety of media including acrylic, oil and watercolour paintings, botanical plaster-castings and pebble mosaics. Her work is influenced and inspired by the forms and colours of the natural world and ranges from figurative to abstract. Catherine’s work has been exhibited across Scotland including at The Barony Centre, West Kilbride; The Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine; The Art Department, Paisley; and Souter Johnnies Cottage, Kirkoswald. She was longlisted for the 2024 Women in Art Prize. Annually, Catherine opens her studio to the public as part of Ayrshire’s Open Studios Weekend. She is also a member of the Scottish Society of Artists.
Catherine will be exhibiting with us, alongside Vanessa Reynolds, from 1st-15th July 2025.
@catherine.mcclure.art | facebook.com/catherinemcclureart
Vanessa Reynolds
Vanessa originates from Hampshire in the South of England and now resides in Ayrshire. She was an art teacher for over twenty years, teaching Fine Art and Textiles to sixteen to eighteen year olds. She paints in acrylic, mainly portraits and trees.
Vanessa will be exhibiting with us, alongside Catherine McClure, from 1st-15th July 2025.
Cat Gemmill
Cat’s colourful and expressive paintings are an exploration of the emotional resonance found in nature. Where vibrant colours and bold forms capture the raw beauty and energy of landscapes and flowers. Her background in textile design is a clear influence, highlighted through her expressive brushstrokes, vivid palettes, and larger scaled works. Her paintings aim to evoke feelings of joy and serenity for the viewer and allow them to connect with the pieces on a deeper emotional level through her colour work. Each painting isn’t just a representation of what the artist sees, but how they make her feel. Cat works from her Glasgow based Studio and enjoys challenging her style by exploring a variety of subjects and mediums to keep her ideas fresh. She is a valued member of the team here at Six Foot Gallery.
@catgemmillart | catgemmill.com
Ruaridh Law
Ruaridh is a sound artist and musician based in Ayrshire, Scotland. Over 20 years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist. Latterly his interests have been in sound and installation art. These works have ranged from intimate audio performance, to large-scale outdoor works combining sound walks, improvised performance and experimental storytelling. His artistic focusses are on data-visualisation, human voices and their stories, unusual paradigms for performance and composing, and marrying abstraction to a beating human heart. These have manifested themselves in a tarot deck that generates music, sequential stories told over film and radio, right-wing propaganda twisted and sanitised into more worthwhile content and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night – as well as countless CD, DVD, vinyl and other music releases.
Carly Morrison
Carly Morrison, a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art’s Painting & Printmaking program, explores the transient nature of memory in her series Melville. Her work utilises found materials – cardboard packaging, plastic, and takeaway coffee cups – that bear human imprints, transforming them into art pieces that encapsulate fleeting moments. By repurposing these everyday objects, Morrison challenges perceptions of significance and permanence, highlighting the silent narratives embedded in discarded items. Her process serves as a tactile preservation of ephemeral experiences, inviting viewers to reconsider the value and stories of mundane materials.
Sue Steele
Sue is a multimedia artist based in Glasgow and Mutonia, Italy. She’s from a fine art painting background although she likes to experiment with different crafts. Learning new skills excites her and pushes her work in other directions, ones she’d not previously thought about. Travelling van is a self portrait about her love of travelling, of keeping things moving and fresh.
Hannah Cornish
Hannah graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2001 with a BA Honours in Drawing and Painting. She has exhibited in London, Scotland and New York and has work in private collections in Sydney and the U.K. Residencies include Cove Park in Scotland. Hannah’s work is about interior spaces from memory and observation. Different viewpoints and emotional responses to spaces are explored through colour, shape and surface. Hannah responds to the arrangement of what is in, how we move through and re-shape spaces. In the work, solid shapes, thin lines and visible brushwork contrast. Opaque and transparent layers give a sense of searching showing an intuitive approach. She aims for depth and harmony. Hannah is inspired by the perspectives and interiors in Renaissance paintings, Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures of negative space, and Richard Wilson’s installation 20:50, all of which change our perception of depth, form and space.
Lou Graves
Lou 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 inro a vaster, richer, truer world than our own. Incredible landscapes where vast spiralling towers and staircases organically mingle with and grow into endless expanses of land, sea, and plant life that together almost seem to wake from dreaming and distantly regard you from the frame as you pass. You are invited to step inside his work. Perhaps this will be your first insight into the real world – or perhaps you have seen it before?
Lou will be exhibiting with us from 28th August -11th September 2025.
Anna Burgess
Anna is a self taught artist based in Glasgow, whose main interest are figures and landscapes seen through an ecofeminist lens. Her journey has taken her from painting nudes in her bedroom, experimenting as a life model herself, to collaborating intimately with different models. Anna’s main hope is to be truthful to the bodies she portrays, not in a hyper realistic sense, but in a way where the so-called ‘flaws’, the stretch marks, the fat, the body hair, whilst rarely the focus, are neither ignored nor beautified but honestly portrayed as part of the whole. Honesty is equally important in terms of the themes her work explores, such as sexual violence, body acceptance, shame, and menstruation. Her paintings seek to express moments of our realities we might not always feel comfortable talking about. Her current work explores the link between femininity and nature and the treatment of both in our society.
June Barton
June is a recent MLitt Fine Art graduate from Glasgow School of Art and holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. She is currently based at Wasps Studios in the Briggait, Glasgow, where she is further developing her printmaking skills and techniques, with a focus on experimental methods. During her fine art studies, June developed a passion for printmaking and chose to specialise in this medium. She was particularly drawn to screen printing because it allows for an experimental and playful approach to creating images. Her process involves editing photos in Photoshop to transform photographs and sketches into separations for print, and using stencils to produce captivating artwork. She enjoys the physical aspect of creating art, the unpredictability of the results, and the exploration of new combinations of shapes and colours.
@june.barton.39 | junekbarton.art
Fiona Young
Fiona’s art is a gentle exploration of resilience and hope, captured through symbolic still life photography. Inspired by the visual language of Dutch master painters, she creates images that reflect the quiet moments of emotional recovery and personal growth. Each carefully composed photograph serves as a metaphor for the subtle strength found in life’s challenging experiences. Her work emerges from personal understanding as she witnesses her children’s journey through mental health challenges, celebrating the nuanced path of healing. Guided by her love of gardening, woodland walks, and the thrill of flea market finds, she approaches her art with curiosity and honesty. Each image captures the beauty in imperfection and the strength in fragility. Ultimately, her art transcends photography, empowering those on a journey of emotional healing through the language of symbolic still life.
@fionayoungartist | fionayoungphotography.co.uk
Katie McGroarty
Katie is a visual artist originally from West Dunbartonshire, now living in Dundee. She looks at themes of religion, sectarianism, gender, class, devotion and the domestic space. She graduated from the Edinburgh College of art in 2020 with a BA(hons) in Intermedia, before graduating from DJCAD in 2022 which an MFA in Arts and Humanities. She lives in Dundee with many dying houseplants where she is the MUM of DAD (the Dundee Artists Database).
@katiemcgroarty | katiemcgroarty.art
Freya Povlsen
Freya’s practice can be summarised by an emphasis on the themes of attitude, humour, the uncanny, pop-culture, sub-conscious creativity, and human nature. She often photographs herself or my peers (mostly women) in a variety of poses to build staged scenes that encourage and guide the viewer to guess at the relationships and/or personalities of the featured characters. This gives a theatrical and performative aspect to her work and the way it is made. She is interested in the absurdity of the mind and the relationship we have with our animalistic instincts.
Jillian Mendoza
Jillian ‘mendonka’ Mendoza is an illustrator based in Glasgow Scotland. A graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in 2023, her style has since developed into a visual form that takes influence from other means of expression, everyday experiences, and the lives of other people. She has collaborated with communities and organisations around the city, and believes that illustration can be a powerful tool to serve others.
@ohmendonka | mendonkaland.net
David Patrick
David Patrick makes paintings, altered books, boxes, collages and drawings. He likes the empirical adventure of making, finding it a satisfying and rewarding thing to lose yourself in. At his best he makes handmade objects of ideas, consideration and emotional expression. He is interested in pursuing the qualities of materials, strong colour, graphic observation and composition.
Emma McLaughlin
Emma is a former primary teacher turned piñata artist, who specialises in realistic face piñatas. After a childhood spent creating ‘things’ out of cardboard boxes, scissors and tape, she explores her nostalgia for that time by using piñatas as the basis of her creative practice. She is very drawn to the transient nature of art. Although her piñatas are made to be smashed, a growing number are being saved that fate and are instead kept on display. Her piñatas are bursting with more than just sweets – they’re filled with joy, wit, and a sprinkling of magic.
Erik Richard H
A traveller, trying something new with each project.
@erikrichardh | erikrichardh.com
Chloé Grimes-Biltis
Chloé is a third year Painting and Printmaking student at The Glasgow School of Art. Born in Glasgow and raised between Scotland and the United States, her work often navigates the complexities of a dual identity, exploring questions of belonging, memory and self-definition. She specialises primarily in drawing and realistic painting, reminiscing on comfort places and objects from her childhood which recreate a sense of longing and nostalgia in viewers. Her latest work furthers this engagement by portraying food in its most appetising and idealised form. Influenced by Southeast Asian artists, she examined the ceremonies around eating and created intimate interactions with meals both familiar and exotic, forcing an unexpected craving and drive for desire in the viewer. By utilising the universal language of food, she bridged personal and collective experiences which invite others to connect with her work on a physical and emotional level.
Amy McGuire
Amy is an abstract artist utilising colour as her primary instrument of expression, while the fast drying properties of her preferred mediums, watercolour and acrylic, encourage her to experiment with layering. Travel is an infinite source of inspiration for Amy; after a transformative volunteer trip to Kenya at the age of eighteen she was immersed in a world of joy, pride, and a vibrant tapestry of colour. She became engrossed in the rich array of patterns and hues, as well as the close knit community that celebrated through song and dance. It opened her eyes to art in every facet of life. Her aspiration is for each viewer to immerse themselves in the rhythm of the paint and have the freedom to momentarily disconnect from society.
Sarmed Mirza
Sarmed is a multidisciplinary British-Asian artist based in Glasgow, working across painting, film, and drawing. Leaves in Love is his poignant series exploring nature, memory, and healing through richly textured colour fields inspired by deep meditation. The work draws from the landscapes of Balquhidder, Scotland, and Butchart Gardens, Canada, where Mirza experienced emotional and visual resonance. Each piece begins as a 15x15cm oil painting on wood, created in an intuitive flow state. These originals are photographed in ultra-high 400MB resolution and transformed into striking 145x145cm archival pigment prints, revealing details invisible to the naked eye and creating a powerful shift in scale. Found My Way Home is a collector’s edition featuring the original painting, a large-format print, four 40x40cm ‘Moments’ prints, and a beautifully designed booklet, which includes high-resolution images of all nine works from the series, offering insight into the artist’s process and vision.
Georgi Tsenov
Georgi is a Bulgarian painter and educator living and working in Glasgow. He holds a Master of Arts degree from Sofia University and has exhibited extensively internationally.