Our gallery director shares her experience on how to hang a mix of paintings and achieve a coherent look.
Before you start, you will need picture hooks, a hammer, pencil, eraser and measuring tape. Gather together ... Continue reading
Posted on 20th April 2019
Anna King Artist background
Anna King artist was born on one of the three small Out Skerries islands off Shetland. She lived there until the age of five when her family moved to the Borders. A ... Continue reading
Posted on 5th March 2019
Our 2019 solo exhibition launches Saturday 9th March 2019, featuring the talented Jennifer Mackenzie’s beautiful oil paintings.
To allow you to get to know the artist behind the paintings, we’ve asked Jennifer some questions about ... Continue reading
Posted on 21st February 2019
We are delighted to announce our solo exhibition for this year, with the wonderfully talented artist, Jennifer Mackenzie. Jennifer will exhibit 40 of her beautiful paintings at Gallery Heinzel from Saturday 9th March to 20th ... Continue reading
Posted on 4th September 2018
The beauty of a late autumn afternoon is captured in watercolour, the movement of the grasses captured by applying washes over masking fluid.
When did you realise you wanted to become an artist and what ... Continue reading
Posted on 21st April 2018
Have you always known that you wanted to be an artist?
In 1969 I was taken as a sixteen year old to an exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle of the work of Claude Lorrain. ... Continue reading
Posted on 21st March 2018
Following its successful launch, Francis Boag looks back at his 2018 Spring Solo Exhibition at Gallery Heinzel:
You have been perfecting your craft for over 40 years, does further painting experience each year make the solo ... Continue reading
Posted on 21st February 2018
Name: Francis Boag
Age: 69
Birthplace: Dundee
Career Background:
I enrolled at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, just 3 days after my 17th birthday in 1965. This made me one of their youngest ever graduates, when ... Continue reading
Posted on 17th February 2018
Buying your first original artwork can be daunting. For many, art is something once owned by wealthy industrialists that’s revered in lofty public spaces. It’s not something in your home competing for attention with Peppa ... Continue reading