Life, still

An exhibition of drawings in pastel and charcoal of stills from silent films and fleeting glimpses of places, people and objects.Sarah Freeman is based in the Borders. She went to Edinburgh College of Art; since then she has been shown in Scotland including the RSA, and in the Royal Pastel, Oil Painters and Portrait painters societies
in London.
Sarah says; My aim is to observe and translate what I see, be it a place, a
well loved face, or an arrangement of meaningful or characterful things, in whatever light is currently available
to me.
Minnie Scott is an Edinburgh born and based artist She has worked in art museums for many years, and studied Contemporary Portraiture at Art Academy, London, graduating in 2022. Her work has been shortlisted for the Scottish Portrait Award and she has shown paintings at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
and the Scottish Society of Artists annual exhibitions.
She says: One of my abiding interests is how different kinds of imagery and media teach us to look, particularly at women. I made this series of drawings from pre-1920 silent films, British and Danish. Some are from very short films or fragments from the late 19th century – there’s such a sense of play and possibility in this new medium.