Its the last couple of days (last day Fri 14) of 'A Celebration of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham' exhibition at their London gallery at 20 Connaught Street, showcasing a fantastic small group of works coming up in sales in October. The display opened with a lively panel discussion. buff.ly/j6qxqJv

Barns-Graham's 1999 coloured etching 'Eclipse', the only print she made with master printer Hugh Stoneman at his studio in Madron near Penzance, created in respsonse to that year's total eclipse of the sun. If you're experiencing the eclipse today, please take all due precautions!!

THIS WEEK- join us at the Trust in Edinburgh (77 Brunswick St, EH7 5HS) - on Fri 7 Aug 2-5pm to explore WBGs archive and celebrate the launch of the new edition of A Studio Life by Lynne Green. Fully stocked bookshop and refreshments available all afternoon! Just drop in - no booking required!

COMING SOON - celebrating the publication of the new edition of 'A Studio Life' by Lynne Green, Lyon & Turnbull display in their London gallery at 20 Connaught Street, a group of WBG works to be offered in forthcoming auctions. Open 4-14 Aug (10am-4pm, Mon-Fri). For more info - buff.ly/220jePj

NOW AVAILABLE - a great new podcast featuring Alice Strang appearing on Dr Karen Mailley's excellent Scottish women history 'Round the Studios' podcast. Discussing the new NGS re-print of the essential ‘Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965’ edited by Alice - buff.ly/XA9lt9D

The superb exhibition 'Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - Nature in Motion' at Museum Belvedere in the Netherlands continues until 20 Sep. It is the the first ever substantial show of Barns-Graham's work to be shown outside the UK and the first career-wide survey since 1989. buff.ly/cKMjfbN

Many congratulations to Annabel Wright for winning both 'Advertising and Commercial' at the prestigious V&A Illustration Awards but also the overall 'Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year' - a brilliant achievement! The WBG childrens book that Annabel illustrated is still available- buff.ly/79LAaAr

NOW OPEN - at Museum Belvedere in the Netherlands is 'Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - Nature in Motion'- the first ever substantial show of WBG's work outside the UK. A visit is highly recommended! buff.ly/qR8orNq

NOW AVAILABLE! - New edition of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: a studio life by Lynne Green. We're delighted to announce a new revised edition of Lynne Green's major monograph 'a studio life' is available from today. The new edition is available from our online shop for £35 (plus P&P) buff.ly/CBGUXjT

NOW OPEN - at Pallant House, Chichester - British Landscapes: A Sense of Place (buff.ly/xHBkeT1)- featuring WBG & Haroun Hayward’s first solo institutional show, Path through Trees (buff.ly/zQgyAG4), showcasing new works with some WBG inspiration! Both shows run until Sun 1 Nov - not to be missed!!

OUT NOW - following on from yesterday's marking of WBG's birthday in 1912 is the latest edition of our quarterly newsletter 'Abstract' - now available on the Trust website here -https://buff.ly/5f3aCIF (you can have the newsletter delivered direct to you email by signing up for our mailing list).

Marking Barns-Graham's birthday on this day in 1912, with a card from Kath & Terry Frost, hand-made by Terry, given to Barns-Graham for her 88th birthday in 2000.

NOW OPEN - at The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge is their 10th anniversary 'Ten Good Years' including a small gouache by WBG - 'Greek' 1960, has been selected for the show and is being displayed in public for the first time in over 65 years. buff.ly/ZUHobBB

Enjoy the sun and warm temperatures in the UK over the coming days! A substantial sun hat as sported here by Barns-Graham is highly recommended! Photographed by Rowan James in the garden at Balmungo in 1985, along with Eros the cat!

Great to see WBG so well-represented in the new touring exhibition 'Making Her Mark: A Celebration of Women in Art', now open at Penlee House in Penzance. Two WBG works feature, 'Gurnard's Head, no. 2', 1947 - recently acquired by Penlee and Kirkcaldy's 'Atlantic Squall' from 1979. buff.ly/nTJOqKw

OUT NOW! - 'Celebrating the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham' - the latest podcast with Susanna Beaumont from Design Exhibition Scotland exploring the life & work of WBG with Rob Airey, director of the WBG Trust & renowned Edinburgh-based Northern Irish filmmaker, Mark Cousins. buff.ly/XNdqGRE

LAST CHANCE - the colour proofs are looking great & the new revised edition of Lynne Green's great WBG book- 'a studio life'- is away to the printers! 3 May is your last chance to buy the old 'blue cover' edition at a bargain price of £20, the new edition is available from mid-June. buff.ly/swRIlyf

In June Lund Humphries will publish a new redition of Lynne Green's essential monograph on WBG - 'a studio life' - marking the 25th anniversary of its 1st publication. We have a very limited number of the current edition still available, at the reduced price of just £20 - buff.ly/ABPvZYg

Johnstons of Elgin's shop in St Andrews has had a very elegant refurbishment, now with the addition of Barns-Graham's 2003 screenprint 'Tango' being shown alongside designer Angie Bell's beautiful Barns-Graham inspired season.

It was wonderful to see on a recent visit to Pallant House in Chichester WBG's 1957 painting Snow at Wharfedale so beautifully displayed between two of her great artist friends & contemporaries, William Gear & Terry Frost and above cermaics by another two of her close friends, Janet & Bernard Leach.

OUT NOW - the latest edition of our quarterly newsletter 'Abstract' is now available on the Trust website here - buff.ly/lFdralW (you can have the newsletter delivered direct to you email by signing up for our mailing list at the bottom of any page on the website!)

In Edinburgh tomorrow (2pm, Thurs 12 Mar) afternoon you can join WBG Trust Director, Rob Airey, at the Assembly Rooms on George Street, for a talk introducing WBG's long creative career focusing on her journey into abstraction. Tickets are free but should be booked in advance here - buff.ly/D1crN86

On World Book Day (@worldbookdaysocial) a reminder that our fabulous WBG activity book aimed at children (though a delight for adults too!) written by Kate Temple and illustated by Annabel Wright is still available in our well-stocked online bookshop! Have a great day of reading! buff.ly/deS8xE4

Following on from the previous post of Barns-Graham in her studio with the large 'Levant' painting, currently unlocated, here is a related study - 'Levant Study No.3' from 1954. This one is on an entirely different scale, measuring only 12.7 x 20.3cm and was acquired by the Trust in 2024.

We have previously known of this impressive large 1950s painting, Levant 1953, from a record shot in WBG's records. However the recent further cataloguing of her archive has revealed this wonderful contextual image, with WBG seen here with the work in her Porthmeor Studio in St Ives.

NOW OPEN - Applications for 6-week research residency at the British School at Rome for a Scotland-based artist the time & space develop bold new work. Applicants must be of British or Commonwealth nationality and resident in Scotland. Deadline: 1 May 2026. Details - buff.ly/besMOHK

A final group (for now) of recent finds from WBG's archive of 35mm slide records of her work. Here we go back to 1942 and three 'Grey Days' in St Ives, certainly appropriate for Edinburgh today, and possibily St Ives too?

Following on from our previous post, 3 more rarely seen WBG works recovered in full (if unverified!) colour from the artist's archive of 35mm slide record shots. These 3 works from 1966-71, similarly to the previous post's works using circles, here WBG uses squares to create movement and energy.

We have recently been methodically going through and scanning the 35mm slides that WBG kept to record her works, recent discoveries include these three gems, all from 1971, when WBG would use circles and ellipses (and also squares) as the vehicle for colour and movement across the picture surface.

2026 will see 2 major WBG shows - the 1st in June at Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen, Netherlands, will be her first major show outside the UK - buff.ly/UyODvdN. In Oct Tate St Ives will then host 1st ever full WBG retrospective (the previous one in 1989 was 15 years before she died) - buff.ly/qmVh0rR