Caroline is an artist based in Maybole. Although originating from Art College in Yorkshire, her future should have been as a Graphic Designer, but a restless soul took her away from that and into various other avenues of work whilst always gravitating back to her art, working on commissions and exhibiting.
Over the last three years, Caroline has had the privilege of helping adults gain self-esteem, confidence, and skills in painting. Her workshops are called "Everyone CAN Paint" and some students are now exhibiting and selling their own art work.
The West Coast of Scotland is a favourite place to paint, and Ailsa Craig appears quite often in Caroline's work.
Caroline's studio is within The Smiddy Gallery at Culzean.
In her youth, Barbara enjoyed painting. It is only in the last seven years that she has started developing her work seriously.
Having enjoyed almost 40 years of rural life in Carrick, her lifelong love of the countryside directs her focus. The natural world provides her with an endless supply of inspiration.
Her work started in acrylics and move on to include pastels. Her subjects include flowers, birds, animals, and landscapes.
She now paints in her sunroom which has become her happy place.
Louise McBride is an artist from Ayr who predominantly works in soft pastel, creating colourful landscape paintings which are often inspired by the area around the Ayrshire coast and particularly, its dramatic skies. She also enjoys using graphite, charcoal and pastel pencils to create her work.
Louise originally studied Visual Communication at Glasgow School of Art before a meandering path led her back to fine art. She is a self taught pastelist after discovering a passion for the medium, which began with oil pastels, several years ago.
Louise enjoys creating a broad spectrum of commissioned art work, including portraiture which has become another passion in recent years. Overall she hopes that her joy in capturing the wonderful light, colours and textures of nature is conveyed through her art for others to share.
Linda lives on the coast in a beautiful part of the Carrick area. She has stunning views across the sea to the Isle of Arran, which inspire much of her work.
Having no formal training in art, apart from gaining a "Higher Grade Art" certificate in secondary school, she has the joy of creating work with few boundaries or expectations. She now experiences the joy of painting again, after a career completely outwith the artistic field.
Linda's original paintings are in oil, pastels or watercolours, and usually always vibrant. From these Linda has a collection of quality prints, canvases, keepsake items and printed cards.
A passion for Culzean she has had from childhood, having visited many times as a youngster and then with her own family, Linda hopes you may be able to visit this wonderful place in the future and enjoy the spectacular scenery and feel the magical atmosphere - it is truly stunning!
Andrew has been a life-long creative and has enjoyed expressing himself through a wind range of media, including but not limited to; book-binding, printing, digital art, water colours, multi-media collage, jewellery making, macrame, paper mâché, festival décor, music and writing.
He bought his first glass kiln around 2009 and feels that with glass he has found his creative home.
Completely self-taught, he originally experimented with bottles and art glass before settling on using recycled windows as the material for the bulk of his work. Used double glazing panels are non-recyclable, Andrew likes to intercept them on their way to the landfill and turn them into useful and decorative items.
The prospect of total calamity is never far away when working with glass, something that Andrew finds quite exciting. He enjoys taking a very rigid material and trying to imbue it with softer, more organic shapes and patterns.
Lara is a contemporary, intuitive painter, living and working on the South Ayrshire coast.
Using mixed media on canvas, Lara's paintings are influenced by the surrounding Scottish coastlines - the ever changing energy between sea and land, and her connection to nature.
Lara plays with colour and texture to create layers of curiosity and depth in each original painting, aiming to evoke a sense of oneness with the seascape and the self.