BAF – Gill Walton VPSSA VAS

Meet me at Borders Art Fair 2025

New Studio

My art practice has been on the back burner for a few months. I have been getting my house renovated and a new studio built. All my equipment and materials were packed up into a shed for a couple of months, AAAArgh! The longest break I have had from my practice since having babies. Now I start to find my feet again. It is a long and slow process. Still, I can’t take too long. I have the Borders Art Fair in just three weeks.

Borders Art Fair

“Gill Walton’s paintings and drawings are renowned for their emotional depth and technical brilliance. Blending classical techniques with contemporary themes, her work often explores transformation, resilience, and the human condition. Each piece invites viewers into a world where light and shadow, strength and vulnerability, exist in perfect balance.

Meet the Artist in Person

“Whether you’re interested in discussing techniques, themes, or the journey of a specific piece, this is an opportunity. You can connect with one of Scotland’s most compelling contemporary artists.”

Gill Walton at Borders Art Fair 2025: Stand no. 3

I will be there throughout the fair, and I really look forward to seeing you. You will find me easily just by the front door on the right hand side when you enter the building.

When

The Borders Art Fair will take place from 14th – 16th March 2025

Friday 14th March 10am – 4pm
Saturday 15th March 10am – 5pm
Sunday 16th March 10am – 4pm

Where

Springwood Hall
Borders Events Centre
Border Union Showground
Springwood Park
Kelso TD5 8LS

Cost

Entry is by donation. Please pay what you can afford on entrance to the fair, to help support next year’s event.

“This year’s Borders Art Fair promises a vibrant mix of established and emerging artists. It makes it a key event in Scotland’s cultural calendar. Be sure to stop by Gill Walton’s stand and experience the depth and beauty of her work firsthand.”

For more information, visit Borders Art Fair or follow Gill Walton on social media for updates.

Private View invitation

I would love to invite you to the Private View on Thursday evening, 13 March 2025. Contact Gill for more details.

Borders Art Fair 2024

I hope you’ll join me 15th to the 17th March at Borders Events Centre, KELSO TD5 for the annual Borders Art Fair.

I’ve been busy busy getting new work and a new series made for the art fair. Look out for the debut of ‘Reliquaries’. These works are what I feel future reliquaries might be, holding sacred the loss of biodiversity. They are beautiful and precious and reverential pieces.

This year I will be sharing a space again with my friend and colleague, Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou. You will find us on stand #70 where we will be exhibiting some new collaborative pieces alongside our own works. We are very excited with our new work and look forward to showing it to you.

On Thursday evening there will be a private view. If you would like to attend the private view please contact me for details of how to register for one of the limited number of free tickets. There will be an exceptionally good jazz band playing, it just happens to be my partner John’s trio.

On Saturday, between 12pm and 2pm, I will be giving a live demonstration of my drawing process in the ‘Artists at Work’ area. I also have some recorded workshops on the Borders Art Fair website.

In other news

‘The Philosopher and the Golden Sun’ became the cover image for the Art Mag this month.

Look out for my next newsletter where I will be telling you all about ‘Inception Art Show’ at Dalkeith Country Palace.

Borders Art Fair and a collaboration 40 years in the making

Only a few days until Borders Art Fair 2023 returns to Kelso in the Scottish Borders.

Friday 17th to Sunday 19th March 2023 with a preview evening on Thursday 16th.

https://www.bordersartfair.com/

This year I will be sharing stand number 32 with my friend of almost 40 years, Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou.

We were undergraduates together, lectured in the same art colleges and did a residency @marchmontcreativespaces together. We have been through many ups and downs over the years and have been great supporters of each others work but this will be the first time we have collaborated on a piece. How special is that?

The piece is called ‘In Sotto Voce’ and will take centre stage on our shared stand.

All the work on show will be new to the Art Fair

My current work explores the use of metals and elemental materials, similar to the work of alchemists. They endevoured to create gold from lead and base materials, I believe this is what art can do: elevate mundane matter into something more than the sum of its parts.

Finally, I recorded an online demonstration/ lecture for Borders Art Fair, it is on the subject of ‘The Artist’s Journey’, the development of ideas and the artistic process. It explains in detail how I have produced some of the work at the fair.

Borders Art Fair 2022

25th to 27th March

I am delighted to be back at the Borders Art Fair. This is aways a joyous event full of wonderful artists and I am looking forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting new people, I hope you are one of them.

I have a 6-meter-long stand (number 62) packed full of new work much of which hasn’t been exhibited before.

Entry is by donation and more details can be found at bordersartfair.com.

Border Events Centre,
Border Union Showground,
KELSO
TD5 8LS.

The Wonders of Composition and Artist’s Talk

It’s more than just an art fair — BAF organise many activities around the event. Earlier this year I recorded a workshop on composition for BAF and an artist’s talk. It is all on their website for free, have a look at that and the other online workshops and events they have put together for us.

A previous winner of the BAF Best Exhibitor Stand prize, Gill will take you through the basics of the classical composition techniques that she uses in her own stunning work.”

Other news …

Look out for details of work accepted into the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition and (potentially) the Aberdeen Artist’s Society Annual Exhibition. I have been pre-selected for both!

The next exhibition is Inception Art Show, Friday 6 May – Sunday 8 May. Inception art show returns to Dalkeith Country Park this May. An impressive roll-call of respected sculptors, artists, photographers and painters will be exhibiting within Dalkeith Palace. Then closely followed by Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair, Friday 27 May – Sunday 29 May. Held in a marquee in the grounds of the impressive Kelvingrove Art Gallery, it is full of original, affordable and inspiring art.