Jana takes part in the virtual exhibition at National Galleries

AN artist who spent five years in Caithness is taking part in the first virtual exhibition created at the National Galleries in Edinburgh.

A piece entitled Life Source by Jana Emburey is featured in the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) annual exhibition in the capital. It was decided to stage the show online due to the coronavirus restrictions.

Jana, who was the co-ordinator at the St Fergus Gallery in Wick before moving to Grantown-on-Spey, said: "Due to the lockdown, the RSA annual exhibition for the first time in history created a virtual gallery we can all access online. My piece, Life Source, arrived in Edinburgh just a few days before the gallery got closed and I was lucky for it to be selected."

The exhibition can be seen online until May 31.

Meanwhile, at the weekend she took part in a 24-hour auction organised by Visual Arts Scotland and artist John Ayscough to raise money for the Emergency Art Workers Support Fund (EAWSF).

The fund delivers grants of £250 to artists who are experiencing extreme hardship as a result of the implications of Covid-19. All the money is donated to the fund, with all administration costs of running and publicising the auction covered by Visual Arts Scotland.

The show brought together more than 40 professional artists from Scotland and as far afield as France, Italy and the USA.

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