Wow, wow, wowzers, wow, in-case you haven’t heard yet, we have the fabulous jewellery designer Tatty Devine up here in Edinburgh on Friday for the RBS Museum Lates Event (more info here) and lucky for us, they offered to do a workshop right here at Red Door HQ on Saturday afternoon.

We have just 2 places left on our FIRST EVER Tatty Devine giant Dinosaur Necklace workshop, to be held in The Red Door Gallery  this Saturday!  Places are selling fast however, so sign up here quick smart should you want to grab one of the last chairs (let’s be honest, who wouldn’t?).

To celebrate this Tatty Devine weekend of fun, we are offering a very rare ‘money off’ promotion valid on all of our Tatty Devine jewellery collection over the weekend. All you need to do is to sign up to our mailing list and we will send you this exclusive ‘promo code’ tomorrow!!!

If you are lucky enough to have a ticket for the RBS Museum Lates Event this Friday, hot foot it to The Red Door Gallery Art Wonderland 4 where you will be able to hand make your own, exclusively designed Tatty Devine, Dino Bone Necklace.  We look forward to seeing you there – be there early to avoid disappointment…

For all you Tatty Devine fans who can’t make it this Friday, we are also running a special promotional weekend on all our Tatty Devine collection – all you need to do is to subscribe to our Mailing List (News, Events and Offers), click here to join up,  and we will send through the magic numbers for your coupon code!

Go check out ‘What’s New’ on our on-line shop and give yourself a wee treat!

A Crolla is an A3 gicclee print on archival papers, £60

Other gicclee prints in this series are available here

Tailor is a hand pulled, A3 screen print, £50

Bacon Rolls is an A3 risograph print, £20

Further risograph prints in this series are available here.

We are delighted to be presenting Tommy Perman’s exhibiton  “Leith, in Red and Black” until May 23rd.  Huge thanks to Innis and Gunn for providing their tip top tasty original, whiskey cask aged beer for the opening event – enjoyed by the crowd who flocked here to fill the gallery last Thursday night.

“Brusnwick Street Stairs” (above) was once a busy access point to the local post office depot intended to transport the public, parcels and Posties safely to and from the building, but the foliage has overgrown creating a treacherous path. Throughout the exhibition, re-appropriation, protection and faded glory become apparent themes: the heavily safe-guarded yet derelict property with welcoming signage; the deliberate and practical modifications made to listed buildings which contradict their original aesthetic or function. The artist’s own design decisions are carried out with the same scrutiny he reflects in his work. This exhibition includes a variety of print techniques, paper types, editioning procedures and application of his work. Including some limited edition skateboards printed in collaboration with FOCUS, a superb local skate shop. Alongside his new works, we will be exhibiting a handful of pieces from his wider collection of studies, including depictions of the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and buildings in the surrounding East End of Glasgow. All works available from www.ediburghart.com from April 27th and prices start at £15 for a poster of “Brunswick Street Stairs”.

Leith is a district in the north of Edinburgh. Once a busy industrial port, Leith is now packed with local businesses, restaurants and bars and is home to a cross section of Edinburgh’s population including artist, designer and musician, Tommy Perman. Tommy graduated from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, in 2002, since which time he helped established FOUND, an art collective and band who have received numerous awards including Creative Scotland’s Vital Spark Award, a Scottish BAFTA and The List Award for outstanding contribution to Scottish art in 2011. As a solo artist Tommy has exhibited widely around the UK as well as Holland, USA and Canada. Tommy recently left FOUND to concentrate on his own artwork and to spend time with his son Patrick who was born on 18 January 2013.

We just love Easter time here in The Red Door Gallery – the promise of bright, colourful spring days and an excuse to eat delicious chocolate all day long!  With Easter Weekend just a few hours away, we have an exhibition showcasing some new works by Edinburgh’s talented Rebecca Kaye and Tommy Perman along side bright, shape prints fresh from Mrs Eliot Books and character based illustrations from Robbie Porter.

The Grassmarket area is also hosting a bike race up our Victroia Street and we have created a cycle themed window to encourage them on, with some super sweet, vintage fabric teddies acting as cheerleaders!

You can also join in the Easter Egg Hunt in and around the Grassmarket Area – pop in to see us and pick up the map.  There will be a £100 prize for the winner, drawn out from a hat.

Tommy Perman’s new gicclee print of The Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow is the feature of our window!

Along side Velo by Rebecca Kaye and Bicycle by Paper Aeroplane.

A vintage fabric teddy by The 1985 is waving his easter flags for the cycle racers as they fly by!

£25-£38 – please email nicky@edinburghart.com for images of the teddies and bunnies currently available.

Happy Easter Everyone!

The Vikings returned to Edinburgh on Friday February 22nd, for the latest evening of creative entertainment at The National Museum of Scotland.  This multi-award winning event called RBS Museum Lates is a regular favorite in The Red Door Gallery calendar as it gives us the chance to commission some participatory projects from one of the highly talented artists and illustrators we work with.  Astrid Jaekel’s bold use of monochrome seemed the perfect fit for this Viking themed evening!

Astrid created 8 DIY badge designs which referenced tapestries, bed posts, coins and folklore all to be found in the Museum’s Viking exhibition (on display until May 12th).  Her final black and white pieces were delightfully witty and playful but had enough room for the Museum Lates guests to colour them in.  They varied in complexity, which satisfied the speedy novice through to the painstaking professional as they added colour and text to the unfinished badges.  Ashley and Lindsey were on hand to help cut and stamp the badges into their durable shells, so everyone left with a truly unique, wearable artwork!

In keeping with the Viking theme, Astrid also designed a Cut-out & Make Viking Drinking Horn, inspired by the myth that Viking’s wore horns on their helmet – they actually wore horns around their necks and used them to drink their water… or something a little more alcoholic from!  We were on hand with a Runic Alphabet so the participants could add their own secret message to the drinking horn or badge designs.  The sharp font gives a definate style and the people we were chatting with seemed to either write their name, or get a little rude!

Rude or polite, we would love to see photo’s of your badges and drinking horns so please email them to nicky@edinburghart.com or tweet them to us.  You can also post them on our Facebook page, where lots of our photos from the night are up - and there are some good snaps in there so please have a peep!

There was an exhibit of some of Astrid Jaekel’s works on the night, along with other pieces by The Lindstrom Effect, Mr Millerchip, Mrs Eliot Books, Laurie Hastings and many others.If you would like to see some more works by Astrid Jaekel, please click here - more to be added this week!    If a little something caught your eye, drop an email to nicky@edinburghart.com or call 01314773255 and we will trace it back for ya.

As always, thanks to The National Museum of Scotland for letting us join in the fun, to Astrid for all her beautiful works and y’all for making it such ruddy fun!  Museum Lates is back on May 17th and we think this may be the best yet, so keep the date free and check here regularly for notification of ticket sales!

So it’s February and we are fast approaching Valentines Day!! The shops are laden with chocolates, flowers and fuzzy litttle toys!! eek!!
Why not buy your special lady or man something a little bit more personal this year?
What could be more romantic than buying them one of these gorgeous unique Heart Pin Cushions by the ever talented Sophie Elm of Jeff Josephine Fame!!!Sweetheart’ pin cushions were made in the First World War, often by convalescing and disabled soldiers as well as civilians to be given to their loved one. Many were given to sailors by their sweethearts to remind them of them on their long voyages at sea. They were covered in beads, ribbons, lace and fabric badges of the persons battalion, or sometimes a poem………. How Romantic!!The design has been linocut and then hand block printed on a light cream cotton sateen fabric. The front design has three colours, and the back one colou,r and just a beautiful with space for you to add your loved ones initials.
These are truly unique and I’m sure that special lady would be very happy to receive one of these for Valentines Day!!They can be found in our online shop or why not pop in to the gallery to see them, along with lots of other alternative Valentines Treats.Give the chocolates and flowers a miss this year and buy your sweetheart something extra special!!

We are just super excited that A Wooden Tree has agreed to work with us on tonight’s Museum Late’s event – Behind The Masque.  Kirsty and The Red Door Gallery team will be there to help you create your very own owl mask with some of the beautiful craft papers Kirsty’s magpie-eye has sourced for the project.  We were lucky enough to try out a couple of designs in the woods yesterday – Twi – Twoo!

If your heading to National Museum of Scotland, please come and find us in The Animal World Gallery, we have a mini exhibition of A Wooden Tree’s brand new creations!  If you are not able to make it along in person, then don’t feel left out, just click here to see her new works online now!

We are just pleased as punch to see this beautiful spread in Country Homes & Interiors.  Their November 2012 magazine has a fantastic article themed around Perfect Printing, a title which we wholeheartedly agree fits with Sunlight on Closed Lid’s newest print “You Light Me Up (edition 2)”. Our thanks go to Sally Denning, the Feature and Stylist behind the article for listing our Red Door Gallery as the place to visit for the ever popular Sunlight on Closed Lids collection of greeting cards (£3), posters (£10) and prints (£16 – £25 ).

To see more designs by Kate Holiday, the talented illustrator behind the strikingly unique design work of Sunlight on Closed Lids, head on over to her pages on our online shop.