North East Open Studios brings a busy week for Aberdeenshire artists and crafters
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Artists and makers opened their doors for the annual North East Open Studios (NEOS) festival.
The annual event takes the public behind the scenes with creatives in Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City and Moray to learn more about their craft and their journey as a creative.
A number of artists shared the space of the Bennachie Visitor Centre to display their work.
Insch landscape artist Jenny Evans was one of them, welcoming visitors with a wall of her Bennachie-inspired paintings.
She said: “I try to catch Bennachie in all seasons, all times of day or night, in fair weather and storms.”
For Cally Smith, her two interests - Colourworx and swifts - have become linked.
She is founder of the Huntly And District Swift Group and these remarkble wee birds often feature in her pictures.
Ceramicist Natalie Naylor, a Grays school of Art graduate, is often inspired by Pictish history as well as her everday surroundings.
She was saddened to lose several trees in her garden, so she used pine cones, needles, bark and wood in her latest collection.
Over in Rothienorman, Helen Timperley said that being part of NEOS had been a long-term dream of hers, and all the events of the last few years had given her the push to finally join.
Her neighbours, Frank and Marguerite Fleming, were also first time exhibitors, and were delighted to show visitors around their croft and share the full journey of their crafts - basket weaving and woolcraft - from planting the trees to putting the finishing touches to each piece.
