Tore Art Gallery

CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE HIGHLANDS just a few miles north of Inverness.
Our opening hours are 10.30 to 4.30 daily except Tuesdays and Sundays. (Sunday opening will commence on 26th June, but please contact us if you wish to visit on a Sunday before that date)


BEN SOUTHERN: 26th June to 9th August 2011
Tore Gallery is hosting artist Ben Southern's first solo exhibition.  The exhibition includes many paintings based on various parts of the Black Isle. His work is expressive and sensitive, beautifully drawn and executed with flowing assertion.

About the Artist
Ben Southern trained in the early sixties at Burnley School of Art, then at Leeds School of Art. He taught for 30 years in several different schools then worked at St Martin's College for ten years. He exhibited his work in Yorkshire and Lancashire before retiring to Fortrose on the Black Isle.

"After working almost exclusively in watercolour or acrylic, I am now enjoying the painterly properties of gouache. The Black Isle provides me with endless subject matter in all seasons and weather"

Forthcoming Exhibitions at the Tore Gallery 2011 

June 26 to August 7:
Ben Southern: a small first exhibition by this Fortrose artist who goes from strength to strength with sensitive landscape paintings in gouache, with a Black Isle theme.

July 23 to 31:
“Art Around the Firth” is a Highlands Open Studios art-trail event which includes Tore Gallery, Beauly Gallery, Ruth Black's textile workshop and the private studios of Avril Marr and Frances Baxter. An action-filled week with six HOS artists busy painting in the gallery.

August 14 to September 30:
“A Shared Space” Painters Linda Smith, Mary Wilson and Margaret Cowie are linked because they share an open plan studio and exchange ideas whilst they work. Their styles are very different but now they share an exhibition of new work at Tore.

November 13 to December 31:
Winter Exhibition: postcard-sized paintings by invited artists will all be priced equally and sold anonymously, discovering how much an artist’s name and reputation affects our choice. There’ll be a competition for those who think they can identify the artists, and the project will have a charitable element.
ALSO new paintings on a larger scale by Isabell Dickson.

How to find Tore Gallery
Tore Art Gallery is conveniently situated 10 minutes north of Inverness just off the A9. (Well it's convenient once you are in the Highlands!). From the Tore Roundabout take the Muir-of-Ord road and after a mile and a half you will find the Gallery on your right, at the Redcastle crossroad.

Tore Gallery Interior

For further details log on to their website www.tore-art-gallery.co.uk