You walk into your friend's living room. A picture hanging above the mantlepiece attracts your attention. As you take a closer look you notice something different about this picture to what you are used to seeing and before turning round to enquire about it, your friend says, ''That's a Batik.''
''A Batik?'', you exclaim. ''I thought Batiks came from Indonesia, or India, or some place like that. This doesn't look like the Batiks I've seen before.''
Your friend proceeds to tell you about this rare exhibition he had attended last May at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre. It was an exhibition of Batik by Scottish members of the Batik Guild. Two rooms were filled with Batiks by 14 Scotland based Batik Artists. ''I've never seen so many fine art Batiks in one place before.''
There seem to be a steadily increasing number of artists in Scotland testing out the fine art of Batiks painting. During the next several months Art In Scotland .com will be featuring some of these Scottish Batikers, as the prefer to call themselves, starting with Selma Rebus of Glasgow, Jane Lannagan of Timontoul, Morayshire and Anne Dyer of ..., Argyll. If you want to be kept informed when other Batikers are being featured on this site, register here for updates
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