A new exhibition of animal pictures – 'Into the Wild' – will show at Art Amatoria in Bellevue Crescent from 12-24 November.
All the works are by Flora Blackett, who has focused on African creatures as well as a few more familiar British ones for her first solo exhibition in the capital.
'Flora's skill lies in capturing at first hand animals and their surroundings, studying their movement and mannerisms to create an intimate portrait,' writes gallery owner Caroline Hay. 'She strives to capture both the immediacy and the serenity in every scene ...'.
Blackett was born in 1978 in Dumfriesshire, and went on to study for four years at the Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence. She now divides her time between studios in Battersea, London and S.W. Scotland, and travels internationally in search of new subjects.
Pictured (above right) is her charcoal study Family Quenching.