The Open Eye Gallery’s annual online show On a Small Scale
Launch on 16th November 2026 – Online
It’s almost time for another Small Scale show, comprising pieces by the Open Eye Gallery artists; we produce work to fit an A5, a wonderful opportunity to buy affordable pieces in the approach to the festive period. If you are interested in a preview of the full show, sign up at the Open Eye Gallery website.
Following on from the work that I created last year, my a miniature oak, Quercus lusitanica (SOLD), and a Floxglove tree seed head, Paulonia tomentosa, (still available), I decided to create a piece in another bottle dug up from the garden, over the year these have been reorganised in my limbic filing system into a category called ‘Finds‘. This time the specimen is a piece of Hydrangea petiolaris, that wonderful climbing Hydrangea which loves the shade, and is so useful in Scotland (we have some new ones recently planted into new bits of the developing garden).
I brought this dried specimen, from our old home, the structures are so absorbing. I placed it in this lovely soft blue bottle, normally we throw the broken ones away (there are so many) but this was such a lovely shade and shape, it survived the cull. I feel that I must look at doing a larger head from the Hydrangea now having embarked on this smaller piece…
