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Autumn can be the most beautiful time of the year here in Kilmorack. Colours intensify before a frost, or a strong wind winter the world. October is the reddest month of all… and we have incredible new works, including new sculpture by Helen Denerley, landscapes from Jane MacNeill, Janette Kerr and Allan MacDonald. We also have fresh work from Peter White, Colin Brown, Anthony Scullion and more. It will be a not-to-miss exhibition.

Colin Brown is unique in Scottish art for the geographic journeys he takes us on. Not long ago, it was to close shores with ‘Love Letter to Europe.’ After this it was to Belgium with Redouté’s botanical painting in the exhibition ‘In Bloom.’ Now we are in the Far East, during Edo Japan, inspired by the prints and kabuki plays of the floating world, where the transience of life and the power of art is celebrated.

The souls of the figures Anthony Scullions paints sing-out with the silent voice that only oil paint can offer. He is is a master of nuance – raising the colour and subtleties of paint to a fresh plateau. These latest thirteen paintings do not disappoint. They combine this knowledge, with Scullion’s sensitive and poetic look at humanity, and they make us look at the world with a rekindled passion.

Janette Kerr captures the atomising movement of the sea like no other artist. When she paints, the sea is alive. It is a god and a force of nature, and her paintings turn our hearts north toward wildness. We have four new canvases, an appetiser before for a larger show of Kerr's work in April 2025.

Few sculptors bring so much life to the inanimate, but Denerley does this repeatedly, ascending heavy unbending scrap, the toughest of mediums, what we have thrown away, into new life.

This exhibition unveils Denerley's latest works - a dairy cow, a standing man and a sitting girl, birds and dogs and, for the non-arachnophobic, there are spiders too.

The looming presence of Orkney's Hoy has been part of people's consciousness since Neolithic times, as it has been part of Jane MacNeill's for as long as she can remember. In these eight paintings, MacNeill explores the island, its stone and sky, and the deep silent water which surrounds it.

Peter White's subject is often a lone object - a book, bowl or flower. Somehow White makes us feel that these objects have felt the presence of life, that they have born witness to something special. White is one of the few painters in the UK that can transport us so far with so little.