Kinsman-Blake Gallery
A family gallery and studio at Smailholm near Kelso, showing ceramics, paintings, woodwork, screen prints and jewellery made by four members of the Kinsman-Blake family.
In the small village of Smailholm, a few miles from Kelso, the Kinsman-Blake Gallery is a family affair.
Four members of the family make the work on show, and between them they cover a remarkable range.
Linda paints and makes ceramics, including the blue and white bowls and jars that line the shelves; Rankin works in wood; Lillias makes illustrations, paintings and screen prints, and has written a children's book; and Robyn is a jeweller.
The gallery holds exhibitions through the year: in the summer of 2025 it was Summer Feast, with new paintings by Linda and a signing of Lillias's book, If a Monkey Ate Nothing but Bananas. It opens every day from late March to the end of December, with visits by appointment in the winter months.
Open every day, 10am to 5pm, from 29 March to 31 December; by appointment from January to late March.
- Where
- Smailholm, near Kelso, TD5 7PH.
- Makers
- Four of the family.
- Work
- Ceramics, paintings, wood, prints, jewellery.
Scotland, in print.
Every photograph commissioned, every word written by somebody who went. Printed twice a year, made in Scotland.
For further reading, before you go.