Midsummer Readings by Alec Finlay & Meg Bateman is taking place on Tuesday 21 June from 7.00 – 9 pm at The Isle of Skye Baking Company.

Stromata is a collection of works created by the artist Alexander Hamilton for a touring exhibition coordinated by The Highland Council. It is a response to the power of nature, drawing from the artist’s engagement with particular sites over the past 40 years. The resulting imagery reflects Hamilton’s deep interest in plants and working with nature. The works were created in locations ranging from Stroma in the Pentland Firth, Botanical Gardens in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Glenfinlas in the Trossachs and Brantwood in the Lake District.

‘Ganseyfest’, the International Gansey Seminar is taking place in Inverness on 01 and 02 October 2011.

Showing along side Jason Hicklin’s Etchings 1995 – 2009 exhibition at an talla solais, Ullapool is The Westland by Joanne B. Kaar and Lynn Taylor.

an talla solais is delighted to present the beautiful and powerful etchings of Jason Hicklin from 8 – 31 July 2011.

Art Exhibition and Craft Fair is to take place at the Achaderry Estate at Roy Bridge from 24th – 27th June 2011.

The Stromness streets are set to become a gallery for the exhibition ‘Open Windows’. A group of forty-five artists will be showing their work in windows throughout the town. The on-street gallery stretches from the Pierhead to just beyond the Museum, framed in the windows of householders and businesses.

Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, until 10 July, 2011.

Eugenia Vronskaya’s latest body of unmissable work will be on show at the Kilmorack Gallery by Beauly from 5 August to 3 September 2011.

Selling the Sizzle, new ways of retailing