A new coffee shop and gallery space in Glasgow’s west end offers great flexibility and potential.

Comrie’s Goldfinch Gallery opened in June this year, and now has a collective of around 20 established and emerging artists working in the village and wider Perthshire.

Leith Community Pottery opens its doors on Friday 29th November, 6:30pm with a preview evening.

A new space for contemporary art in Edinburgh, Bloc Gallery is the venue for Edinburgh-based artist Alan Lennon’s exhibition, Transfiguration, charting an evolution in figurative style.

Wester Ross has a new cultural heritage hub. Formerly located in an old farm steading, the Gairloch Heritage Museum has relocated to a strikingly redeveloped former nuclear bunker opened by HRH The Princess Royal.

Built originally as a military building in the mid-18th century, the main gallery features changing displays of art and photography, while a studio space is devoted to local designer-makers.

Now open, a new gallery offering the chance to view and buy original art, sculpture and objects d’art, in the heart of Royal Deeside.

A new exhibition space in Edinburgh takes on a different angle. Exhibiting art as you would display it in your home setting is the premise behind recently opened Halidon Home.

Landscape painter Tom Barron has opened The Other Art Gallery in Crieff to showcase his own and other artists’ work.

The newly extended Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries includes three beautiful exhibition spaces.

Graphic designer Ian Farmer has opened Upright Gallery overlooking Bruntsfield Links.

Located in the picturesque village of St John’s Town of Dalry, the Glenhaven Gallery features exclusively original artwork and photography by Scottish artists.

Based in what is thought to be a former 19th century carding mill, the Weekend Gallery in Kilbirnie will present a series of monthly solo shows focusing primarily on first-time exhibitors working in the West of Scotland.

Dundas Street in Edinburgh is the new location of &Gallery (formerly &Collective in Bridge of Allan).

Birch Tree Gallery, a new venue for fine-crafts and prints exhibitions, opens its doors with ‘Semitones’ on March 10.

Just opened in Edinburgh’s Lochrin Place, Detail Framing Studio has a gallery space showing primarily Scottish-based emerging artists and makers in rotating shows.

Artist Paul Munzi has opened The Life Room on Dundas Street, where he hosts classes working from life models as well as producing and displaying his own work.

A new little sister for the long-standing greengallery Buchlyvie near Loch Lomond!

Recently opened in Beauly, Alder Arts Modern specialises in contemporary and 20th century art, such as original lithographs by Salvador Dali, limited edition prints by Paul Cezanne, mixed media works by William Gear and a selection of screenprints by several artists from the 1960s and ‘70s.

It has been worth the wait to see the new West End premises of Union Gallery, which has just opened with a mixed exhibition with works by familiar names such as Joyce Gunn Cairns, Norrie Harman, Keith Epps and Patsy McArthur along with new painters to the gallery, Elaine Spears and El Anderson.

The only resident Scottish artist who is a full member of the Royal Miniature Society, Jane B. Gibson has just opened Cornerways Studio and Gallery in Kirkcudbright.

Adding to their branches in Glenrothes and Dollar, Robertson Fine Art is now open for business in Hanover Street, where you can buy fine art by top selling artists such as Alexander Millar, Anna Razumovskaya and Ron Lawson.