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Interesting news · Monday 1 June

Ann Oram Leads New Garden Show in Morningside

Edinburgh · from morningsidegallery.co.uk

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Morningside Gallery has a summer exhibition worth catching. Into the Garden opens on Saturday 6th June and runs for just over a fortnight, gathering new paintings from a host of Scottish artists working in their own back gardens and well beyond. The centrepiece is a feature on Ann Oram RSW, marking her 70th birthday year. She paints flowers she finds rather than buys, from Kew to a roadside verge thick with cow parsley. Director Eileadh Swan reckons it'll be a special one.

Read it at the sourcemorningsidegallery.co.uk

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