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pARTicipate is an informal creative group that introduces visual arts and creative expression to the community of North Berwick. Anyone is free to join.

This includes art workshops, installations, supporting visual heritage, classes and visual displays.

01/08/2020

This is the final virtual gallery image by North Berwick’s . Thanks to the NB Resilience Team support we started with videos to inspire everyone to the think about, enjoying or making art.🎨 Thousands of visits to our Instagram site and lots of new followers later we’re winding up the gallery - but will be back soon with something new!

Join us in raising a virtual glass🍸 to thank all those who kept our town running during four tough months. 🌈 Our post men and women, the teams who empty the bins and clear up the litter, the window cleaners and delivery drivers, our post office and shops on the High Street that have been there to meet our needs and deliver to our doors, as well as the medical teams and carers and the other services. Raise a glass and thank them all: pARTicipate says thank you!

The virus is still out there, so wear a mask😷; keep your distance; wash your hands; be patient.❤️

31/07/2020

We’re posting the final images in pARTicipate's gallery as the pandemic’s emergency phase eases with today’s end of shielding. We’re grateful to the Community Council’s Judy Lockhart, also part of the resilience team, for helping with the posts and getting the message across: the pandemic is not over. Please continue to take all the precautions you can. We’re looking back over the past four months to photographs taken at 05.58 on 23 March - the day that the UK wide lockdown was announced. Who would have anticipated where we would be on 31 July?

The sun rose over the sea, turning the sky into a dramatic technicolour display in the first two images. These reminded supporter Tom of Munch’s famous painting ‘The Scream’. With a couple of digital tweaks North Berwick’s skyline morphs into the famous Norwegian painting of terror: an apt metaphor for the weeks that were to follow with both suffering and heroism in our .

14/07/2020

Previous posts showed some images that were ‘Romantic’ with a capital R. North Berwick artist found a sense of isolation in nearby Cove, making an image that belongs to what’s been called ’the Northern Romantic Tradition’.

With the easing of lockdown everyone’s horizons widen ….but be cautious, stay safe.

13/07/2020

Another supporter south of the border took this photo during permitted exercise in . It captures the peace and quiet that many were fortunate enough to experience during this strange time, making an image that could be a 17th century Dutch landscape painting, or a . The lockdown unleashed new but has it also taught greater respect for our natural world? Protect the planet; stay safe; wear a mask and maintain a distance until the danger is past.

12/07/2020

Following Dominique Cameron’s field paintings, here’s a field in Oxfordshire sent by one of pARTicipate's supporters south of the border. Painted using an it includes a solitary rabbit.

Hard to remember a time when no one knew what was - for now, wearing a mask or a face covering is part of daily life for everyone. Stay safe as North Berwick gets busier!

10/07/2020

The next two paintings by Dominique Cameron are part of her new project about fields. The first is called ‘Top Field’.

Dominique has been working on them during and has said she had been ‘out drawing this afternoon, which is great, given how wet the morning was here. The countryside is so full at this time of year, everything is bursting. I sat under a beech tree looking out over the fields and felt very lucky to be able to spend an afternoon in this way’.

Swipe to see another of her paintings, ‘Piece of Field’ that captures the fresh bursting energy of high summer in a tangle of paint, taking almost an insect’s close-up eye view of nature.

As we move towards the lifting of pandemic restrictions it’s a good time to be reminded to look at, and respect, the natural world, and be grateful we can appreciate it.

09/07/2020

“Looking across the Forth” is a view from Dominique Cameron’s garden in Pittenweem, looking straight across the Forth at North Berwick. It’s one of a series of works Dominique has done each day during the - you can see them at https://dominiquefcameron.com . The breezy freshness and vibrant spring colour is a reminder of the glorious weather of the early lockdown days, and contrasts with the cool mists of Rannoch Moor. Did you know that North Berwick and Pittenweem are both 56 degrees north and 2.7 degrees west? That makes them our really close neighbour across the Forth: maybe the pandemic will have changed attitudes to car use and we’ll get a fast ferry to cut out the long trek via the Queensferry Crossing.

06/07/2020

Dominique Cameron’s ‘Rannoch Moor’ is part of a series of studies of the moor, painted on a piece of wood she picked up there. It captures a cloudy, dreich day with a sense of drama that evokes the isolation and loneliness that many experienced during the lockdown.

Dominique made this painting available as part of the which aimed to get people to look at art and support artists during . pARTicpate is very glad to be supporting the artists in a small way. See more of Dominique’s work at dominiquefcameron.com

04/07/2020

Galleries and museums across the world have made their collections available online so that virtual access is possible from anywhere.

The (Edinburgh) curated a selection of artists’ work for the Exercise Three online exhibition. It aimed to keep support alive for artists during the lockdown.

Arusha Gallery took an imaginative approach, setting artists ‘homework’ to do, asking questions, getting them to talk about themselves. For Exercise Three, artists produced small A5 paintings that were then sold via the gallery website. A great idea!

If Danny Leyland's image rings a bell, check out the work of De Chirico - this is Danny’s homage: art finding inspiration in art. Whose art works would you choose to re-imagine?

03/07/2020

Today’s image for the virtual gallery is one of a series of concertina sketchbooks featuring evocative mixed media sketches of Dunbar’s town and seascape by

Ann has supported the initiative, an excellent way to encourage artists and art lovers to support one another during

The concertina is a way of making an artist’s book that everyone can try. Ann says ’starting a sketchbook can feel less intimidating than a formal painting so a good way to start’. Inspired by Ann’s example of colours, texture and drawing? Experiment to explore your own sense of place.

Ann Cowan’s work will be exhibited at gallery in August.

02/07/2020

George Donald’s ‘On the Beach’ is an imaginary scene that captures the way that the beach became important for solitary walks, exercise and contact with the natural world during the . It’s a reminder of those 100 changed days of peace and solitude but also of the need felt by many to get outside and stay connected, even at a distance.

01/07/2020

and isolation have been challenging and claustrophobic for many. The Virtual Gallery continues with ‘Lockdown Boredom’ by George Donald, a painting that also suggests that it’s been a time for reflection, thinking thoughts, and finding creativity in the

George, a frequent visitor to North Berwick, did the first charcoal drawings at the Telephone-Exchange space two years ago and they’ve survived being open to the elements since then. If you’re visiting the High Street, have a look or scroll back through our posts to August 2018.

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