Out of the Blue currently houses over 200 artists, arts organisations and other creative businesses at The Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Abbeymount Studios, NMR Studios (Niddrie Mains), Meanwhile in Leith and Out of the Blue Music Studios. The list below is a selection illustrating the range and quality.
I mostly make paintings, from large scale canvases, miniatures to murals, small painted sculptures to text based artworks. I explore the complicated coupling of eastern and western cultures in richly vibrant portrayals of the different autobiographical factors present in my life.
Rare Bird Media
Categories: Film Production and Film Festivals
Rare Bird MediaThe Out of the Blue Drill HallContact: RayBird
Video production services for film, tv, documentary, live events and promotion.
Ray is a professional editor/camera op who has worked in broadcast and corporate environments and is always looking to connect with the audience through engaging storytelling.
He has won a prestigious Royal Television Society Award and was Awards’ Shortlisted for two documentaries he was commissioned for, produced, shot and cut. In addition to that, he is an experienced editor on FCP, Adobe Premiere, After Effects and more. He has shot with broadcast cameras as well as DSLRs to produce a diverse catalogue of work to which he is always looking to add.
I am an illustrator and storyteller based in Edinburgh. My pictures are bright and playful. I start by painting a watery base layer with lots of texture and then later add all the fine details with coloured pencil and crayons (that’s my favourite part). I also work digitally, drawing on my iPad and collaging in handmade textures. At the moment I’m drawing lots of shells and feeling heavily inspired by seaside landscapes.
In between working on picture books and private commissions, I enjoy printmaking and painting out and about around Scotland.
I’m originally from West Yorkshire but have made my home in sunny Leith, Scotland, close to where I studied BA (hons) Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art – The University of Edinburgh. I work from my studio at Abbeymount, Out of The Blue.
Remode Collective is a Community Interest Company (CIC) set up to celebrate multicultural diversity, build new skills and explore ways to reuse textiles.
We are based in Edinburgh and we offer a range of creative workshops, classes, community projects end events, as well as collect leftover and unwanted textiles to produce handmade and unique items.
Our aim is to establish a multicultural community of crafters, designers, seamstress and tailors that come together to learn from each other, while promoting a sustainable and ethical use of skills and resources.
Robin Paine is an artist noted for original and accomplished figurative drawings and paintings. She has developed her own lexicon of imagery drawn from her interest in mythology, anthropology, social history, Art history and Natural history.
“My paintings would probably be best described as “figurative” or “realist”. I work from life whenever possible and I have found that this is essential when I’m painting people.
I have been affected by works of art from many periods, ranging from Roman Egyptian painted portraits to paintings of Gwen John, but I would also cite film (i.e. the early films of Jean Luc Godard) and photography (the German photographer August Sander) as sources of inspiration.”
Robyn Jancovich-Brown
Categories: Theatre
Robyn Jancovich-BrownThe Out of the Blue Drill Hall
Robyn is freelance producer based in Edinburgh. Since 2009 she has worked with a number of Scotland’s leading arts festivals, organisations and theatre companies.
Robyn is interested in high quality, professional work that tells stories which are currently untold and/or underrepresented on stages, as well a creating new platforms for this work to be seen and heard by diverse audiences.
Rosanna is a printmaker (lino cut) and Illustrator, primarily working within the themes of nature and storytelling. Some series she is working on are greek goddesses, reimagined bookcovers, ans the ‘surrealist garden’. She also takes print and illustration commissions, particularly for houses.
Over the course of 2024 Out of the Blue will continue to offer opportunities for artists and members of the community to learn, participate and earn income.
We use the space we have developed in 6 buildings in Edinburgh for studios, workshops, classes, projects, exhibitions, social enterprises, events, clubs, music making, markets, a cafe and more.
Our all year round activity helps create the culture of the city, supporting the local economy and having positive social impact for the thousands of individuals and organisations we work with.
We would humbly accept a financial donation, however small, in support of our work.
