Shona Barr

BORROWED LAND is an exhibition which celebrates the importance of land, sea and sky, and the artists who have made it their muse. Scottish landscape has a power known throughout the world, but it is more than this - it is a home and an ecology.



This exhibition includes work by twenty-five artists: from the awe-inspired painters, the northern romantics, to others who see it as a metaphor or celebrate its silence, and ceramic artists who reform its clay-body with fire.

Kilmorack Gallery is now into its winter hours, so we are open Wednesdays until Saturdays until the new year. After this we are open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. This...

This is our largest ever exhibition of work by Shona Barr, with over thirty-five new works painted over the last two years. We have called it 'Colour Distilled' because Barr has painted nature and distilled it to a purity of colour. Uplifting, vibrant, brilliant: we hope you are able to make it.
A catalogue to celebrate this exhibition is available.

Shona Barr's work is full of energy and colour but always retains balance and calm. We are very pleased to bring a small selection of new works to the gallery for the end of August.

Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to present the last in a group of three exhibitions focusing on the work of four selected Scottish artists in each exhibition. In part three we...

SHONA BARR’s paintings vibrate with energy. Colours, light and the atmosphere of nature are captured quickly by Barr, en plein air in watercolour, and then worked up into oils that...