Galleries - December 2019

Natural sites and strong bold shapes found in the likes of castles, churches, old towns and harbours draw Neil Macdonald, while inspiring work engaged with Scottish history and the people who have lived there. By distorting the perspective Macdonald reimagines the subjects he paints, looking for an essence of the structure or place in its previous glory. In some pieces topographic accuracy is replaced by an imaginative response to the subject, the atmosphere and mood of a place enforced by Macdonald's dramatic use of light, revealing the subject’s unique sense and poetry of place. The work is an illustration of the artist’s enjoyment of the landscape and human interaction with the land in the Northern Isles. INSTAGRAM: most likes in November •Neil Macdonald at Open Eye Gallery •‘Pennan’ •likes: 40 •impressions: 4.2K •galleriesmag followers: 1.8K follow galleries_mag SOCIAL media images & listed new shows posted daily to 10K followers TWITTER: top tweet in November •Nina Pandolfo at J D Malat Gallery •‘Flow’ •views: 427 •likes: 5 •artmag tweet views: 30K •artmag followers: 8.3K follow @art_mag Brazilian-born Nina Pandolfo is known for her delicate paintings of wide eyed expressive girls, along with small animals and birds, always portrayed with a characteristic brushstroke. One of Brazil’s renowned graffiti artists of the ‘90s, she progressed from street urban art to exhibiting in galleries and museums including in Europe and the US.