The Art Appreciation group visits a variety of galleries, exhibitions and studios on an ad hoc basis. We usually start or end the trip with a coffee together and where possible arrange for an art guide to help enhance our understanding of exhibitions. The group has a membership of 65, but individual trips attract a smaller number, usually from 10 to 20 members.

We covered the following eclectic range, from paintings to textiles to photography and modern to more traditional art between May 2024 and June 2025:

• Andy Warhol: The Textiles, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
• Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk, V&A, Dundee
• Hospitalfield House, Arbroath
• Style & Society, Dressing the Georgians, Kings Gallery, Edinburgh
• Discovering Degas, Burrell Collection, Glasgow
• Sir John Lavery, National Gallery, Edinburgh
• Adam Bruce Thomson - The Quiet Path, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
• Glasgow Murals
• Women in Revolt, Modern 2, Edinburgh
• Stitched : Scotland's Embroidered Art, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
• Berthe Morisot, talk by Dorothy Parker, Perth
• Durer to Van Dyck | Drawings from Chatsworth House, National Gallery, Edinburgh
• Celebrating 40 Years of Scotland's Photography Collection, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
• A Weather Eye, McManus Gallery, Dundee
• The Scottish Colourists, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

We plan to continue in summer. Possibilities for summer and autumn 2025 could include:

• Glass, Perth Art Gallery
• John Bellany, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
• V&A, Garden Futures: Designing with Nature
• Powderhall Bronze, Edinburgh
• Kirkcaldy Art Gallery, A Century of Kirkcaldy Galleries
• Dovecot Gallery, IKEA - Magical Patterns