Paintings, cards and prints by Sheena McCurrach are on display at Caerlaverock Wetland Centre in Dumfriesshire. Having lived and worked in Galloway for many years, Sheena has played an active role in the arts for much of her adult life and writes about her surrounding landscape. The exhibition’s theme is ‘Edgelands’ – places that transition between one kind of terrain and another, such as headlands, reedbeds at the water’s edge, hedgerows dividing field from garden, ancient dykes marking where meadow becomes moorland, woodland paths, sea and estuary shores. 

Sheena says, ‘Edgelands provide endless inspiration to me as an artist and writer, and are often habitats rich in wildlife. They are places of endless fascination to me. I grew up by the sea and am continually drawn back to it, as to the wilder places where wild flowers grow and the best blackberries can be found along dykes where lizards and butterflies warm themselves in the sunshine. Here, too, birds and small mammals live and forage for food. The shores are constantly shifting, places to linger and experience the light and the wind, the rushing tide and the wind-blown thorn -trees that lean inland. I search for driftwood amongst the detritus cast up on the Spring tides. ‘Edgelands’ is offered as a response to years of wandering, watching and living on the edge of things.’