Dark Art Distillery

23/10/2026

With the yellow weather warning we are closed until Monday. Most of our products are available from the Keystore across/near the Distillery

22/10/2026

We are looking for someone to join the team - part time role hosting tours & tastings, working in distillery shop and doing farmer markets

Award winning distillery with innovative spirits with positive atmosphere

Contact: [email protected]

20/10/2026

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/best-of-the-world-2027

What has Dumfries & Galloway, Melbourne, Jaipur, the Pacific Coast Highway California and Luxor got in common?

National Geographic has said they are among 25 The Best Places to Travel to in 2027

Come and visit this hidden gem - mountains, coast, beautiful villages & towns, boutique shops, art galleries, great food, breweries and distilleries

https://darkartdistillery.com/

Whether you’re drawn by a sense of adventure, a fascination with the past, or the simple pleasure of wandering unfamiliar city streets, here’s where to let your curiosity lead you in the year to come.

16/10/2026

🎨 There is a small harbour town in the south west of Scotland where, for more than a century, the people with paint on their hands have outnumbered almost everyone else.

Kirkcudbright sits where the River Dee meets the Solway coast in Galloway, a town of wide streets, colour washed houses and a little harbour where fishing boats rest on the shining mud at low tide. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, painters began to notice something special about it: the light. Soft and clear, reflecting off the water and the sands, it seemed to make every colour glow.

One of the first to put down roots was Edward Atkinson Hornel, one of the group of young painters known as the Glasgow Boys. Hornel grew up in Kirkcudbright, and in 1901 he made his home in Broughton House on the High Street, where he painted richly coloured pictures of children playing in the Galloway woods and fields. He created a remarkable garden behind the house, with a touch of Japan in it inspired by his travels there in the 1890s.

Other artists followed. In 1915 the illustrator Jessie M. King and her husband, the designer E. A. Taylor, came to live in Kirkcudbright, settling at Greengate in the old part of the town. Jessie King's delicate, magical drawings and her love of colour drew still more artists, and summer schools brought students to paint the closes, the harbour and the river. By the twentieth century Kirkcudbright was known far and wide as the artists' town.

That name has stuck. Today the town still has galleries and studios, and visitors can walk through Broughton House and its garden exactly as Hornel left them. On a fine evening you will still find someone at an easel by the harbour, trying to catch that same Galloway light.

It is a lovely thing when a whole town becomes known for making beauty. Was there an artist in your family whose paintings still hang on someone's wall? 🖼️

05/10/2026

MOFFAT FARMERS MARKET SUNDAY 11th OCTOBER, 10.30am to 2.30pm at the TOWN HALL MOFFAT.
Another bit of champion new from one of our ever popular producers at the Market.
Dark Art Distillery have once again come up with something rather special. Their Vespero Blanco is getting some very encouraging reviews on fb. just nip over to their fb page for the full enticing, mmmmmmm's

30/09/2026

5* tour & tastings

“…wonderful tour, liked the gin, loved the Véspero. Super time…”

Recent review from guests

29/09/2026

A review of Véspero Blanco:

“As a massive tequila/mezcal/agave cocktails drinker I was so curious and excited to try…..I honestly think you’ve created one of the smoothest drinks ever…..I’ll keep sharing the wonder that is Véspero…..”

27/09/2026

With the challenging weather conditions expected early afternoon we have decided to keep the Distillery shop open rather than be at the Kirkcudbright Market today

Go to the market early and then pop into the Distillery to sample our fabulous drinks in the comfort of ‘being inside’

18/09/2026

Join us in-store tomorrow for a FREE tasting with local distillery Dark Art, based in Kirkcudbright.

Come along and discover a selection of their locally produced gin, vodka and agave spirit, with Kelvin on hand to pour and talk you through the range.

📅 Saturday 19th
🕧 12:30pm – 4:30pm

What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than sampling some fantastic spirits, made right here in Dumfries & Galloway.