VISITORS to a new art exhibition can view works by acclaimed Scottish artists and discover a new generation of sculptors.

A brand new, specially commissioned artwork by Andrew Mackenzie has now joined pieces by Antony Gormley (below), Eduardo Paolozzi, William Turnbull and David Nash in the rapidly expanding outdoor sculpture collection at Marchmont House in Greenlaw in the Scottish Borders.

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A series of guided tours round the grounds, and private walled garden, of the Grade A listed 1750 Palladian mansion will run from this weekend to August 29. And on 28 and 29 August, to coincide with Marchmont’s next Open Studios weekend, Mackenzie will join two of the tours to offer an artist’s insights and to talk about his new artwork.

His work, alongside that of Frippy Jameson, Charlie Poulsen and Keith McCarter has been selected for inclusion in the Marchmont collection to represent a new generation of “local hero” sculptors working in Scotland today.

Mackenzie is well known for his paintings which depict landscapes intersected by geometric shapes and the new work, entitled Woodland Structure, has translated this approach into 3D.

He said “It’s been such a personal project to me, I’ve wanted to create a 3D version of my paintings for years, and now I’ve had the chance.

“The geometric shapes are about how we see space and the landscape, creating ways of seeing it from many different viewpoints. They offer a space to consider our relationships with the place itself.”