Waterside Arts is a print and framing gallery based in Leith.
We specialise in limited edition prints by Scottish artists.
All purchases of £150 and above are carriage free for mainland UK.
We can send these to you flatpack anywhere.
Just e-mail your full address and we can get a quote for carriage.

If you wish to purchase a limited edition print or open edition print please contact us by

phone 00 44 (0)131 555 5628

fax 00 44 (0)131 553 5655

e-mail info@watersidearts.co.uk

Alternatively order your prints by writing to

Waterside Arts
83 Henderson St.,
Leith,
Edinburgh,
EH6 6ED

"Moonskaters" by Aliisa Hyslop
Limited edition giclee of 75 plus 5 A/P
100% rag paper (310gsm) with lightfast inks.
Image size 14ins by 12ins (36cms by 29cms)
Retail Price £75 incl VAT

"Winter River"by Aliisa Hyslop
Limited edition giclee of 75 plus 5 A/P

100% rag paper (310gsm) with lightfast inks.
Image size 6ins by 24ins (16cms by 61cms)
Retail Price £65 incl VAT

"Waiting for a Sea Captain" by Alissa Hyslop
Limited edition giclee of 75 plus 5 A/P
100% rag paper (310gsm) with lightfast inks.

Image size 10ins by 9ins (25cms by 24cms)
Retail Price £55 incl VAT

"Bluer than Velvet was the Night", Alissa Hyslop
Open Edition print

100% rag paper (300gsm) with lightfast inks.
Image size ins by ins (cms by cms)
Retail Price £14 incl VAT

"Water Music", Alissa Hyslop
Open Edition print

100% rag paper (300gsm) with lightfast inks.
Image size 15.25ins by 25.25ins (38.5cms by 64cms)
Retail Price £23.50 incl VAT

"Moonlight Parade", Aliisa Hyslop
Open Edition print

100% rag paper (300gsm) with lightfast inks.
Image size 5.75ins by 24ins (14.5cms by 61cms)
Retail Price £10 incl VAT

"Autumn Eve", Aliisa Hyslop
Open Edition print

100% rag paper (300gsm) with lightfast inks.
Image size 9.25ins by 5ins (23.5cms by 13cms)

Paper size 11.25ins by 6.75ins (28.5cms by 17cms)
Retail Price £7 incl VAT

"Autumn Adam", Aliisa Hyslop
Open Edition print

100% rag paper (300gsm) with lightfast inks.
Image size 9.25ins by 5ins (23.5cms by 13cms)
Retail Price £7 incl VAT

Click on photograph to find out more about this artist.

Aliisa Hyslop is now widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic particularly since her work was featured in "Radiance", a US magazine for the larger woman. However, Hyslop, who does not fall into the category of "the larger woman", explains the scale of the figures she paints in a different way. "I don't see them as fat," she says. "They are big because my paintings are about feelings and the soul and I think the soul is immense - and it's almost like they're ready to burst". This strength of feeling is apparent in all of her work which cannot fail to trigger within the viewer a reaction of amusement, pathos or gentle irony. The rapidly increasing popularity of Hyslop's work was manifest in a recent sell-out exhibition at The Leith Gallery in Edinburgh and is due , in no small measure, to the bond the images create with the viewer. There is something of all of us in them and whether we see the subjects as funny or sad they still touch a chord. Hyslop herself does not see her pictures as funny because she does not often intend them to be that way. "I think they are more ironic", she says. Whether sad, funny or ironic, they are certainly unusual. Her ideas come from everywhere and are completely formulated in her mind before she paints. "A lot of artists' work seems to develop as they work on a picture. I don't. Mine is completely in my mind and it's actually a matter of getting it out." Hyslop has painted semi-professionally since she settled in Edinburgh after graduating from Portsmouth School of Art in 1981 and has been painting full-time since 1995. From a creative family of mixed Scottish and Finnish parenthood Hyslop has drawn on family folk-lore and childhood memories of visits to relatives in the forests of south east Finland to developed her own unique style of communication. The Finnish strength of character and silent fortitude come across in her paintings, as does the stillness of the seasons in that northern woodland country. "I'm drawn to the melancholy, the darker side," she says. "Sometimes pictures, like music, express things that cannot be expressed in words". The end product of her artistic expression depicts characters set in a dreamlike limbo somewhere between reality and imagination-a timeless, never ending play of great depth and warmth.

To purchase any print contact Waterside Arts

tel 0131 555 5628

fax 0131 553 5655

e-mail info@watersidearts.co.uk

For original work please look at The Leith Gallery's website

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