Jane MacNeill

Our Winter Exhibitions runs from 23rd November through until March. We have called it the plural, exhibitions, because there will be so much work - a small wall of 10'...

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.

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...

Inspired by Orkney and the Western Isles, Jane MacNeil's latest solo exhibition opens on Friday 29th July. These worls explore the deep, slilent calm of mountain and sea.

These are the mountains of my childhood, the hills of home. They are ancient, weathered, and rounded by retreating ice; the colours they reflect are dictated by their geology, by the plants that manage to grow on them, by the quality of snow and ice, and by water. Although I have walked countless times amongst them, it is their distance that moves me.

JANE MACNEILL has completed a body of iconic paintings of animals for this exhibition. Here birds are raised to their rightful gold-leafed status. MACNEILL’s technique and ambition has reached a...