Harbour, first light
Mairi Calder. Oil on board, 40 × 40 cm. £1,650
Art for the walls you live with
A small gallery of Scottish painting, photography and studio ceramics in a Georgian house in Edinburgh, with our own framing workshop downstairs.
A house of pictures
Aubrey Vale is four rooms on the ground floor of a house on Abercromby Place, hung the way you might hang your own: one line of pictures, plenty of wall between them, a bench to sit on and daylight from tall windows.
We show eighteen artists who live and work in Scotland, four exhibitions a year, and a changing room of studio ceramics. Everything on the walls is for sale, and nothing is behind a rope.
Come in, take your time, and ask us anything. Nobody will follow you round.
On the walls now
Three pears and a jug
Mairi Calder. Oil on linen, 50 × 70 cm. £2,400
Sanna, low tide
Tomas Reid. Silver gelatin print, 50 × 40 cm, edition of 12. £650
Thistle
Robert Kerr. Etching on cotton paper, 30 × 45 cm, edition of 30. £280
Ochre and blue
Robert Kerr. Oil on board, 60 × 60 cm. £1,900
Tall vessel, oatmeal
Inês Duarte. Stoneware, ash glaze, 38 cm high. £420
17Years on Abercromby Place
64Exhibitions so far
18Artists we show
1200+Pictures framed each year
From the visitors’ book
FAFiona and Alasdair M.Collectors, Stockbridge
We came in out of the rain for ten minutes and left an hour later with a small harbour painting. It hangs where we see it every morning.
DPDr Priya NairCollector, Glasgow
They brought three paintings to the house on approval and hung them for us. We kept two, and the frames are better than the ones we had.
EGEwan GilliesRegular visitor
The quietest gallery in the New Town, and the most generous. They will talk about a work for as long as you like and never push.
Come and look
Open Tuesday to Saturday, ten until five. Free to visit, with a bench in every room.