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Adrian

Smith

Location: Falkirk

Materials: Acrylic, Embroidery, Stitched, Woven

www.tideandcroft.com

I am a Painter and Textile Artist based between Stirlingshire and Orkney. Following a 25-30 year carreer as a designer in Italy’s fashion Industry, I returned to Scotland in 2022 to focus on my Art practice. Due to considerable experience with textiles and fibre, my work is mainly focused on Textile Art. I am a full member of EDGE Textile Artists Scotland and exhibit regularly with their program of physical exhibitions throughout Scotland. I tend to work in thematic series, focused around specific inspiratons. Much of my ongoing inspiration comes from Orkney – Its Landscape, culture and folklore and this is also a considerabe interest in my painting. My textile work in particular focuses on rich, high-relief textural and chromatic impact. My mission is to stimulate the audience to engage with a message or inspiration through overt visual seduction.

Previous Experience

January- May 2026 VAS Exhibition ‘Common Ground’ January-February 2026 Scottish Society of Artists 127th Annual exhibition October 2025 ‘A Selective Memory’ A solo show at the ‘Ship of Fools’ Gallery in Kirkwall, Orkney, Paintings and Textile Art articulating the Landscape, Culture and Folklore of Orkney September 2025 Natural Fibres Conference Participation in an EDGE Textile Artists Scotland exhibition at this conference June-Aug 2025 ‘Text, Texture, Textiles’ Exhibition at Peebles Library and Museum Gallery April 2025 ‘Surfaces and Undercurrents’ – Cass Art Glasgow Participation in this EDGE Exhibition January 2025 In-depth feature in ‘Inspirational Magazine -Issue 93’ September- October 2024 ‘Surfaces and Undercurrents’ at Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh September 2024- featured in Emboroidery Magazine article on EDGE Textile Artists Scotland May-June 2023 – ‘Edging West’ Edge exhibition on the West Highland Way at the Lillie Gallery in Milngavie April 2022 – ‘Open Edge’ exhibition at the Harbour Gallery in Kircudbright

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