OPEN SPRING EXHIBITION 2024 including the Pauline Keen Memorial Purchase Prize Award

Valerie Shuff is a professional artist who has a love of portraiture and fine detail. She is very much a realist painter and her influences come from the more classical and traditional schools. Her portraits are generally created using life models. Most of Valerie’s work is oil on canvas with one or two favourite pieces reproduced as Giclee Prints.

CURRENTLY SHOWING IN OUR EXHIBITION =
The Art of Transformation: A Journey Through Metamorphosis
Spring Exhibition 2024: March 7th to May 19th
Ainetheon Arts Ltd, 4-5 Cumberland Close, Kirriemuir, Angus DD8 4EF

Let's delve into the captivating world of art and explore the transformative essence of 'Three Line Stanza' and '12 Bar Blues' by the talented professional artist, Valerie Shuff. These masterpieces are part of Ainetheon Arts’ Spring Exhibition: The Art of Transformation.
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'Three Line Stanza'
Description:
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 57 x 35 cm (framed: 86 x 61 cm. Gold frame with cream mount)
Inspiration: The artist draws from the simplicity of quiet moments and the power of minimalism. Each brushstroke is deliberate, capturing the essence of the person in the fleeting moment of music.
Transformation: 'Three Line Stanza' invites viewers to pause, breathe, and find solace in the quietude. It transforms the mundane into the sublime—a whisper of untold secrets.
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'12 Bar Blues'
Description:
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 25 cm (framed: 44 x 38 cm. Black frame with gold inset)
Rhythm and Resilience: '12 Bar Blues' resonates with the soul's journey. The layered textures evoke the ebb and flow of life—the highs and lows, the syncopated beats of resilience.
Metaphor for Transformation: Just as blues music transforms pain into melody, this artwork weaves fragments of memory, loss, and hope. The twelve bars symbolize cycles of change, echoing through time.
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Valerie masterfully captures the essence of transformation in her works. As you explore these pieces, allow yourself to be carried away—into the liminal spaces where art whispers, and metamorphosis unfolds.

Join us at the Ainetheon Arts Ltd Spring Exhibition, where these artworks, and many others, await your contemplation. Let them stir your imagination, provoke introspection, and perhaps ignite your own transformative journey.

Valerie Shuff was born in Arbroath in 1945. She began painting in 1990, whilst working in market research and attended classes in Hospitalfield, Arbroath. In 1995, at the age of 50, she studied at Angus College to develop her portfolio and was accepted to study at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Fine Arts and Design in 1996. She graduated in 2000 with a BA in Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting). Valerie has exhibited extensively in Galleries throughout the UK and her work is held in many private collections in the UK and abroad.

Contact us for more information about the artist or her wonderful works. We can also arrange a private viewing in our Gallery outwith our opening hours.