Bailesear Woman
I walked along this very familiar beach some years ago. It was a dull, misty afternoon. I became aware of a row of figures standing on the shingle. However, when I reached them, I found they had been constructed from beach combed material. A netting skirt, buoys for heads, sometimes seaweed hair. They were definitely women.
I returned on a clearer day and took photographs. I never knew who made them, then weeks later they were gone. I made drawings and then prints from photos and the memory of them, standing, watching.
'Bailesear Woman 1'
Collagraph print 21cm x 15cm
'Bailesear Woman 2'
Collagraph print 21cm x 15cm
The Maddies
'Na Maddaidhean' (Scottish Gaelic) the wolves/hounds are rocky outcrops in the bay, after which the village Lochmaddy is named. Close up they display extraordinary evidence of their origins, igneous, as part of an intrusive dyke. I made a number of monoprints.
'Maddies 1' Monoprints 21cm x 15cm
'Maddies 3' Monoprints 21cm x 15cm
'Maddies 2' Monoprints 21cm x 15cm
'Maddies 4' Monoprints 21cm x 15cm
Eaval
Eaval, the name translates as ‘island hill’ dominates the flat peat moors surrounding it. It rises like a solid wave, and surrounded by the sea and myriads of loch it lives up to its ‘island’ name.
'Eaval 2' Drawing 42cm x 30cm
'Eaval 1' Drawing 42cm x 30cm
'Eaval 3' Drawing 42cm x 30cm
'Eaval 4' Drawing 42cm x 30cm