HADDSTOCK 2026 ART EXHIBITION
Our exhibition featuring 2D and 3D work by local artists will run from 11am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday at the Poldrate (3rd floor). Artists will be there to show you around, and most work will be for sale. The exhibition is run in partnership with Poldrate Arts & Crafts.
Ailish Kelly
Ailish’s current work is all about human movement; capturing dynamic motion, quick gestures and shifting weight. Rather than focusing on precise detail, she uses loose brushstrokes and bold colour to convey the energy and rhythm of the body in motion.
Alison McDonald – ceramics
Alison is a local artist from East Linton. Each piece is hand thrown on a potter’s wheel using stoneware clay, creating functional pieces. Deeply influenced by the local seaside landscapes and forest, she uses bright blues through to earthy greens.
Andy Heald – mixed media
Andy is a landscape artist influenced by coastal plains around Edinburgh, East Lothian and the Borders. He’s drawn to the ever-changing appearances of our shared environment (waves, weather, plants in the wind) and attempts to catch these fleeting moments and elements by painting rapidly. The paint and media is driven, splashed, scrubbed or dripped over the canvas, sketchbook or paper in an attempt to capture the raw experiences of nature.
Andy uses a range of media – acrylics, emulsion, industrial paint, spray paint, watercolours, sand, grass, tissue paper, newspaper – while working, but the finished products are more like sketches – the paint scratched, rubbed away, drawn over with pencils and pastels, and/ or splattered with fresh paint to create the finished, usually abstract, work.
Annie Green – mixed media
Annie Green is a contemporary landscape painter, living in North Berwick. Her work explores the abstract values of the landscape, inspired by wild open spaces, a big sky, the textures of fields and woods, the restless and unpredictable beauty of the sea, the ever-changing weather and light. A love of colour drives her practice.
Annie’s paintings have their beginnings in real places and experiences, but the process of creating also involves memory, intuition and response to the layering of mixed media materials including collage, ink, and acrylic paint.
Collective Jewellery
The collective is a group of jewellery makers based in Midlothian and East Lothian, using traditional techniques to produce a range of unique handmade jewellery. They work predominantly in silver using a wide variety of techniques – which are constantly evolving – and also work with gold, copper, enamel and aluminium.
Emma Philp – ceramic
Emma is a ceramic artist from Haddington. She specialises in wheel-thrown pottery finished in a decorative style using hand painted colourful underglazes and sgraffito technique. She’s particularly inspired by vintage patterns and colours of the 1950s and 60s.
Darren Woodhead – watercolour
Darren is a pure field painter. A Graduate of the Royal College of Art, he works direct in brush and watercolour outside: there is no studio. Concentrating on the natural world, his paintings are atmospheres, surroundings depicting birds, landscapes, butterflies and mammals – his local Scottish wildlife, as well as expeditions worldwide. His paintings are narratives, encompassing energy, life, spontaneity and movement, welcoming the textures and atmosphere that working outside gives and using the natural white of the paper.
darrenwoodhead.com / @darrenwoodhead
Emily Hogarth – screenprint and papercut illustrator
Through her motto ‘making the everyday magical’ Emily tries to capture the magic of the Scottish landscape and its wildlife, combining these with her recognisable flora and fauna. Working mainly with papercuts, Emily loves the combination of boldness and delicacy that they bring to designs. Through their flexibility they can be stand-alone pieces of art or translated onto a printed medium (screen prints, fabric designs and stationery).
Since completing her masters in Edinburgh Collage of Art in 2008 Emily has been working as a self-employed illustrator and surface designer. Her distinctive illustrations and bold designs have provided her with success over the past few years. Her designs have been seen in The National Museum of Scotland, Cadbury’s Flake ‘Allure’ as well as the Nivea Pearl and Beauty global campaign. Since graduation she has worked with: Nivea, Cadbury’s, Red Magazine, Jasper Conran for Debenhams, Cole and Sons, St.Crispin’s School, The Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, National Museum of Scotland, The Book Trust, Tamatin Whisky, The Scottish Government and Bramwell and Brown. Currently Emily is working on illustrating a Children’s book as well as personal commissions.
emilyhogarth.com / @emilyhogarth
Fee Scroggie – mixed media
Fee’s art practise involves creating work inspired by myths, the old gods and mysterious landscapes with collage and her own homemade botanical inks from local trees. She loves to use ancient techniques and binders including egg tempera, cherry resin and beeswax to create atmospheric and haunting paintings.
feescroggie.com / @feescroggie
Fiona Dean – silver jewellery, casting & taxidermy
Fiona is sculptor that works predominantly in taxidermy and casting. After a degree in Fine Art Sculpture at Central St Martin’s, she has developed a passion for science and the natural world. Fiona’s work has evolved by blurring the boundaries between these subjects. Her art tries to untangle some of the psychological and biological questions between the two fields.
Her taxidermy work uses only gifted, naturally deceased and found animals, with a fondness for birds. Fiona’s jewellery collection was born from a love of bones and casting. Using the lost wax process she creates a range of gold and silver pieces to be worn as modern day amulets. Living very locally to Haddington, Fiona has been able to work with birds and bones found nearby.
fionadean.co.uk / @fionadeanartist
Helen Wyllie – illustrator
Helen is a designer and illustrator, mostly operating where the two disciplines meet. She loves a flowing line, a good impending sky, and a flock of seagulls. Her illustrations are mostly of East Lothian and sea birds, with some coastal rowing and other wildlife thrown in. Helen is also co-director of Haddstock, and the festival’s graphic designer.
wylliecat.co.uk / @helen_wyllie
Iona Molleson – plein air painting in oils & printmaker
Iona studied Drawing & Painting at Edinburgh College of Art. She paints and sketches from life ‘en plein air’ to capture the light and colours of the East Coast near where she lives in Haddington, and around the farmland by her studio loft near Dunbar. Inspired by her Hebridean roots, Iona loves to take regular painting trips to her studio at Borvemor on the Isle of Harris where she finds great joy in responding to the sea, landscape and every changing light of the Hebrides.
ionamolleson.com / @ionamollesonartist
Jill Sives – printmaking and papermaking
Jill studied printmaking in Brighton and the RCA which she continues to use in an expanded way alongside a new love of papermaking. Working with plants, she harvests, forages, photographs and documents materials to bring back to the studio as source material. Ideas evolve intuitively as she finds ways to work with the materials at hand in a playful, conversational manner, exploring memory, place and belonging.
Kate Henderson – glass
Kate is an elected Associate Member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters (AMGP) a professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and an elected Artist member of the Paisley Arts Institute. She has served three years as Chair of the Scottish Glass Society.
Kate has been teaching for over twenty years and for eleven years she taught stained glass summer school for the Lifelong Learning at Edinburgh College of Art. Since the closure of the stained-glass department at ECA she now teaches courses in stained glass and painting from her workshop in East Lothian. Kate has won several awards including the Amanda Moriarity Award in 2020 organised by the Contemporary Glass Society, where she spent a two-week residency with British Glass Artist Mark Angus in his studio in Graz, Austria developing advanced techniques in stained glass. In 2023 Kate was joint winner of the Reflections of the Lord Mayor of London, an annual stained-glass competition. She still works closely with this organisation as a judge on the panel. In 2024 she won the House for an Art Lover Award from the Paisley Arts Institute which was a solo exhibition in the gallery in 2025.
Kirsty Odds – weaving
Kirsty is a handweaver, who works from her garden studio in Aberlady. She creates fresh, contemporary pieces predominantly for use in interiors and accessories on traditional looms.
The seasons are often reflected in work, whether influencing colours, textures or yarns. Come Spring, the bright, light airiness that flourishes tends to prompt her to play with a brighter colour palette, giving rise to joyful fabrics. She uses wool yarns in the colder months, creating cosy fabrics to add a feeling of coorie to her interior collections.
Lyndsay Fergus – printmaking and casting
Lyndsay’s printmaking, casting, photography and paintings are inspired by the often overlooked intricate details, textures and colours of East Lothian and her travels around Scotland. She teaches adult classes and day workshops in a variety of printmaking techniques, plaster casting and papermaking.
Mary Frith – glass
Learning to make glass beads to use in jewellery led Mary to other glass working techniques and especially to fused glass. She now works from a small studio at home in Haddington as well as teaching kiln glass techniques at Poldrate Art and Craft Centre.
Mary’s work is a mix of decorative and functional items. Though she loves the variety of colours available in art glass, she also enjoys working with waste glass, old greenhouse glass, window glass and waste from picture framers. Mary enjoys bringing ideas from other crafts to her glasswork whether it is stamping or printing on the glass or combining glass and wire.
Rebecca Dover – acrylic on canvas & linen
Rebecca explores ever-changing weather fronts, and the moods they create, through her paintings. “I’m captivated by Scotland’s atmospheric sky tones, dramatic light and cloud formations throughout the year; in particular, first sunlight pushing through the dreich and early stages of a sunset.”
She has been a professional artist for over 20 years, painting private commissions and you can find pieces at Found Gallery in Dunbar, The Loft and Roo Art in Haddington. Beki is also Haddstock’s Director.
Sheena Phillips – watercolour
Sheena wants to show her response to the changing skies and landscapes. They set the mood of each painting. The colour of the land is transformed by them. Sun streaming through clouds can light up the fields, turning the landscape into a completely different patchwork of shapes in the blink of an eye.
Sheena gained her degree at Edinburgh College of Art and, for a time, worked as a furniture designer. Although she first studied chemistry at Edinburgh University, she soon realised that she wanted to express herself through paint, and she has worked in watercolour ever since. Sometimes she paints cities and buildings, but more often you will find her on the moors and by lochs and rivers. Sheena has exhibited widely, been featured in magazines, tutors, runs workshops, demonstrates, and gives talks for groups.
Shena Thompson – mixed media
Shena graduated in 1992 from Gray’s School of Art in Drawing and Painting. Originally from Dundee, she now paints from her home studio in Haddington. Shena’s artwork is mainly inspired by the countryside and harbours of East Lothian and she has recently been creating a series of fishing boat collages.
In the last ten years Shena has been working to commission and exhibiting locally and in the Borders. She loves to experiment and is currently employing a layering technique using a variety of media with a focus on colourful collage and drawing in ink.