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This year, Carol Douglas was invited by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to present a solo exhibition of work. The show, called Actually I Can, presents 51 paintings that are about the everyday, portraying household objects and people in domestic settings.

It is red's affinity with fire and warmth that makes it a shade we seek out in winter - a salve to abate the seasonal blues might you say! So to warm our cockles and cheer us all up this winter, we've selected a variety of artworks that celebrate red in all its splendour.

This autumn, we caught up with Glasgow-based artist Lauren Bryden. Read the full interview, in which Bryden talks of the importance of matrescence and how (m)otherhood has shaped her and her art making, by clicking on the link below.

We have a whole new collection of paintings by Sarah J. Stanley, a Glasgow-based artist whose work explores themes of religious dogma and subservience. Blocks, bricks, grids, ladders, and stairs are commonplace in Stanley's painterly lexicon. They form boundaries, pathways and even cages, evoking ideas of confinement and coercion- a feeling known only too well by Stanley. She grew up in a family of Christian fundamentalists. Extreme and cult-like, with no time for anything but Church and bible studies, her childhood was void of play and deviance.

In the spotlight this month, we have Iranian artist Elham Hemmat who shares with us her love of ceramics, her many lines of influence and her belief that art is not just a means to challenge ideas but hopefully affect change.