Local artists mark International Women's Day at the Castle Galleryin Highland capital

ARTWORK by four women will be displayed at a Highland gallery as part of the celebrations around International Women’s Day.

The Castle Gallery in Inverness, which is staffed entirely by women, is staging an exhibition, In Our Element, featuring work by local artists Clare Blois, Fiona Matheson, Katherine Sutherland and Dot Walker.

The month-long exhibition opens today ahead of Sunday’s International Women’s Day, a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

Award-winning oil painter Clare Blois is inspired by the colours and textures of the Highland landscape and seascape.

Texture, masking, pattern and design are the starting point for work by former textile designer Fiona Matheson who comes from several generations of Highland crofters.

Katherine Sutherland, who took up painting seriously just a few years ago, will show oil and water colour paintings of Inverewe Gardens and the surrounding landscape.

Dot Walker, who walks most days in the countryside with a sketchbook, will exhibit new still lifes and images from the coast.

Poppyscotland’s Welfare Centre in Strothers Lane, Inverness, will mark the achievements of women in the Armed Forces community at an event today attended by city councillor Carolyn Caddick, a former Army major.

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