The Leith Gallery presents a very exciting exhibition by Jack Frame and Huw Williams.

Jack Frame paints trees and Huw Williams paints horses, so you could classify them as landscape and equine painters but that would short change them. They are figurative artists too.

Jack’s trees dominate the landscape the way Richard Burton could dominate a stage (even when just 2nd Roman).

Jack explains, "This body of work revolves predominantly around the study of trees, and the basic relationship they have with human beings. They are extremely good transmitters of human emotion, as strong as a portrait of the face, and it is perhaps this human quality that fascinates me the most. In essence the fact that they are trees is irrelevant, they resonate something direct and solely about us ... Being around the place drawing and painting is very important, sitting or looking or even better just going for a walk and feeling images float around".

The character and power of Huw’s horses is so strong that you feel they are about to leap off the canvas. Classically trained, but originally set on a career as a magazine-illustrator in England, Huw decided to go back to his first love, painting, at the same time as the family acquired their first thoroughbred. "Jane bought Mia in the early 1990s and I began sketching her straight away," Huw recalls. "Then, as friends saw my work around the place requests for other horse portraits started coming in and before long I found I was busy painting all day long".

Both of these artists have enjoyed success at a young age, Jack having won the Glasgow School of Art Landscape Prize and the Standard Life Landscape Prize in 2007 and one of the Jolomo Scottish Landscape Prizes in 2009 and Huw having sold work all over the world to both corporates and private individuals including His Majesty Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (King of Bahrain).