When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.
— Rainer Maria Rilke

It will soon be time for our exhibition in Gairloch Museum. 'Our Fragile Land' opens to the public on 4th May with pictures by Jane Rushton Beth Robertson Fiddes , Fiona Macintyre and me. Here's one of mine. #trees #oilpainting #art #Gairloch #OurFragileLand #art exhibition

Shapes, colors, moods. Well, be that way! All broody moody! (tap)

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Storm Kathleen continues to pack a punch, pummelling us with brutal winds and sleet showers. This recent watercolour, completed recently during the calm between storms, seems (to me) to sum up the raw, elemental energy in the sky over the Minch.

‘Drawn to the Light’, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm

View from the studio steps on this bright and beautiful day.

Shapes, colors, moods. The names of things lift and float, carrying both our truth and tale as we watch the passing wonder. (tap)

One from the studio this week, “Minch Song - Spring Shower”.

Watercolour. A more abstract take on the daily dramas out there over the sea.

Raindrops and reflections.

Broken sky.

‘The Great Sea’, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm. The start of a new series.

There seems to have been a fresh fall of snow on the higher levels of Skye overnight. Quite breathtaking to see from here!

There's heat in the colours of today's sunset but oh my goodness, the wind chill is vicious!

View across the croft and over the sea to Skye

You sitting down?

4,014,964 hours worth of sewage dumped into England’s rivers in 2023. An all time record. A massive 129% increase on 2022.

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‘Drawing Closer’, 30 x 30 cm, Acrylic on canvas. To be shown in ‘Our Fragile Land’, Gairloch Museum, May/June 2024

Shapes, colors, moods. Rothko with a ribbon of nostalgia. (tap)

Pale moon rising, above the old tin drill hall and the stream which runs through our crofts.
(Photo taken on yesterday's late afternoon walk, with my iPhone.)

Field barn, very much a feature in Swaledale. Yorkshire Dales NP

Colours of a storm #Shetland