{"id":134617,"date":"2025-05-27T00:58:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134617\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T00:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:58:44","slug":"under-open-skies-at-thomsons-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134617\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Open Skies at Thomson&#8217;s Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         Under Open Skies by Jennifer Austin will be exhibited at Thomson\u2019s Tower, the yellow octagonal building on the shores of Duddingston Loch has entertained many artists in its 200 years including Henry Raeburn, who immortalised the loch in his painting of\u00a0\u2018Rev Robert Walker, skating on Duddingston Loch\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>The Tower has also welcomed J.M.W. Turner \u2018the painter of light\u2019, he of \u2018big skies\u2019; so how appropriate then that, the red carpet has been rolled out for\u00a0 Orkney\u2019s Jennifer Austin \u2013 her exhibition \u2018Under Open Skies\u2019 is scheduled for the second week in June.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer has exhibited previously; in Orkney at the Workshop and Loft Gallery in St Margaret\u2019s Hope (May 2024) and at Highland Park in Kirkwall (March 2025) and in Edinburgh, at the Morningside Gallery (2024). She is completely self-taught and a pupil of the school of trial and error; she is the first to admit that her painterly craft and subsequent success and achievement owes much to YouTube during lockdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition is a celebration of light; more specifically how light falls in, on and through the natural world. On display will be a mixture of oils and prints that illustrate Jennifer\u2019s relationship with light \u2013 a relationship that has been acquired through her Orkney upbringing. \u2018Light\u2019 in Orkney is special \u2013\u00a0 in the summer it can go on forever while in the winter, though in shorter supply, it can reveal itself in moments of intensity. It\u2019s in Jennifer\u2019s blood and in the air she breathes; both are revealed in her paintings \u2013 none more so than in the impressive \u2018Golden Hour\u2019. I think Turner would have approved.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer\u2019s exhibition runs from 8 to 14 June 2025 between 10am and 3pm at:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Thomson\u2019s Tower\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>in Dr Neil\u2019s Garden<\/li>\n<li>5 Old Church Lane<\/li>\n<li> EH15 3PX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"367\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Golden-Hour.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-598752\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/05\/under-open-skies-at-thomsons-tower\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748307523_896_pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/05\/under-open-skies-at-thomsons-tower\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748307523_496_print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/author\/timdean4hotmail-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5fbe02e06b1b01ffdee07f460eb418c96939d5639426d198710222d23882217f\"  class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under Open Skies by Jennifer Austin will be exhibited at Thomson\u2019s Tower, the yellow octagonal building on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,59112,1102,4154,4155,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-134617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dr-neils-garden","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-local-news","12":"tag-edinburgh-news","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114577087713977566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}