A lovely post from Mary Smith about the passing of her friend and artist Silvana McLean plus news of an exhibition in Dumfries & Galloway celebrating her style of creative art.
Artist Silvana McLean sadly passed away last year and The Whitehouse Gallery in Kirkcudbright, south west Scotland is paying tribute to this wonderful artist with a solo exhibition of her work.
credit Euan Adamson
As well as a large collection of Silvana’s prints and original paintings, there will also be items on loan from her family, such as a much treasured painting called ‘The Lighthouse’, which was part of Silvana’s school work, submitted in her application to Art School.
Fold (This is my favourite painting. I could lose myself in it forever)
Something very special to me will also be on display – a portfolio of Silvana’s prints accompanied by five of my poems. This was the result of an arts project on which Silvana and I collaborated.
In 2007 when we were commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage to work on a project called ‘Voices of Glentrool & Merrick’ Silvana…
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M J Mallon YA Author and Poet 
Thank you 🙂
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