Four Scottish Artists United by Abstraction: Introducing New Visions at Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh

What happens when landscape dissolves into colour, gesture, and form? A group exhibition currently showing at Graystone Gallery in Edinburgh explores this question through the work of four contemporary artists whose abstract practices remain rooted in place and perception.

New Visions at Graystone Gallery presents paintings and prints by Balbinder Broadbent, Hetty Haxworth, Amanda Phillips, and Victoria Wylie. The exhibition runs from 30th January to 21st February 2025.

An Exhibition Shaped by Transition

New Visions is shaped by transition, a pause between seasons, states of mind, and ways of seeing. As winter gives way to spring, the show inhabits that fertile in-between space where endings loosen and new possibilities begin to surface. Through painting and print, the four artists reflect on moments of emergence, inviting viewers to slow down, look again, and consider what change might hold.

The artists are united by an abstract language grounded in lived experience. Their practices draw on landscape, memory, sensation, and perception, producing works that feel both provisional and alive. Across the exhibition, colour, rhythm, mark-making, and layered surfaces suggest thresholds both physical and psychological.

The Work

Victoria Wylie creates luminous paintings that celebrate Scotland's land and sea. Working from her studio in Angus, she builds layered surfaces in blues, greens, and earth tones that evoke coastal light and open horizons. Returning to Light Returning to Light captures the contemplative, solitary quality that defines her practice.

Balbinder Broadbent constructs richly layered compositions where colour reveals and conceals form. In Blue Gold, vibrant turquoises, pinks, and ochres build dynamic relationships across the surface. Her work hovers between structure and intuition, with colour functioning as rhythm rather than description.

Hetty Haxworth brings over three decades of printmaking experience to bold, geometric compositions. Working from rural Aberdeenshire, she uses monoprint and screenprint techniques to capture fleeting effects of light across landscape. Velvet Night balances precision with atmospheric warmth, its forms both deliberate and alive.

Amanda Phillips combines an architect's spatial awareness with a painter's feeling for atmosphere. Her work moves between structured composition and gestural mark-making, often exploring coastal subjects. Staithes Staithes holds architectural clarity and painterly softness in balance, hovering between revelation and concealment.

Art as Open Process

Rather than offering fixed conclusions, New Visions presents art as an open, evolving process. The works encourage reflection, attentiveness, and a willingness to embrace uncertainty, finding beauty and possibilities in flux.

This makes the exhibition particularly suited to collectors seeking art that evolves with continued looking. Abstract work of this quality reveals new aspects over time, responding to changes in light and the viewer's own shifting attention.

Exhibition Details

New Visions: Balbinder Broadbent, Hetty Haxworth, Amanda Phillips, Victoria Wylie and others

• Period: January 30 to February 21, 2025
• Location: Graystone Gallery, 52 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh (Stockbridge)
• Website: graystonegallery.com

Graystone Gallery specializes in contemporary Scottish artists , offering a carefully curated selection of paintings, sculptures, and ceramics by both established and emerging artists. Services include try-before-buy options and the interest-free OwnArt payment program.

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