Know someone determined to “ditch the plastic”? For all your eco-warriors out there, why not choose a hand made soap dish by local potter Linda Kinsman Blake (Smailholm Pottery) together with one of our range of environmentally friendly palm oil free soaps? Total gift cost only £ 19.95 For the man who has everything? Why not choose a new hand made wallet produced from Harris Tweed and calf leather? This item is beautifully made in an ethical fair-trade workshop in rural India

Richard’s work has evolved from early art college figurative painting through abstraction in the seventies and, from the late seventies, back to the figurative. Abstract/non objective painting taught him much about space and shape and the delicate balance between them. He hopes his painting still retains the stillness that comes from that balance. Richard combines ordinary people with ordinary and imaginary scapes to create work which he hopes makes the viewer think and dream

Pamela Grace is an artist and print-maker living and working in Galloway. After training at Galashiels College of Textiles and Design, Pamela worked as a knitwear designer, first in industry and then establishing her own knitwear label. Drawing and painting have always been central to Pamela’s creative work and she has established a second career, teaching classes in art and design in further education in Glasgow and Central Scotland and locally in community education. More r