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Prices from £100 to £1300.

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Winter Show artists

Peter Biehl, Ruth Brownlee, Paul Bloomer, Claire Dalby, Peter Davis, Dave Donaldson, Mike Finnie, Gail Harvey, Brian Henderson, Mike McDonnell, Roxane Permar, Richard Rowland, Ron Sandford, Meilo So and Joyce Wark.

Artists Statements

Not all work has been photographed, so this website offers you a selection of what you can expect when you visit us in the real world at Vaila Fine Art in Lerwick.

This quietly magnificent show continues until 19th December, and is best appreciated by being there. The gallery’s enthusiastic proprietor is willing to open outside the usual times by appointment, weather-permitting.

Mike Finnie artists CV

Born in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, Mike Finnie moved to Shetland in 1986 where he works as an architect.

He has always drawn and painted architectural subjects and his painting has concentrated on Shetland and the desert countries of the Middle East. Living in Shetland he has developed his interests in the relationship between the vernacular buildings and the surrounding land and seascapes. Buildings are low and hug the landscape. Their relationship to the sea and land is important: their builders were dependant on the sea for livelihood and transport and on the land for materials and food. His work is also a record of a Shetland which is slowly disappearing.

He works from sketches, mostly done in winter when the sky is often dramatic and the sunlight yellow and horizontal. These recent paintings show his ongoing fascination with the patterns made across the landscape by fences and the simple shapes and amazing textures of sheds.

Winter 2010 show

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Winter Show artists

Artists Statements

Mike Finnie artists CV