My books and boxes are made employing traditional bookbinding techniques which I love adhering to closely. I do however also want to give my work its very own style and feel. This I achieve through hand crafting the decorative paper I use to cover the objects I make....
Using everyday materials and spaces, I explore gaps and overlaps between drawing, photography, and embroidery; all the while questioning my understanding of each. The intention is not to tell a story or to illustrate. Much of my work will exist only for a short time....
Pauline Prior-Pitt in her painting shed at Grenitote, North Uist reading a couple of poems and talking about her life in UistPauline reads from "Be an Angel", her recent collection of poems about women’s lives and talks about life as an artist in UistPauline recorded...
Fashioned from driftwood, barbed wire, sea urchins and barnacle-encrusted plastic mannequins, Fergus Granville’s eclectic sculptures are inspired by the Hebridean island of North Uist’s wild weather and terrain.
Exhibition: Tuesday 1st – Friday 9th July 2021 at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North UistYasmin Davidson is a contemporary artist based in Uist, working in the field of painting, drawing and sculpture. Yasmin graduated with a B.A Fine Art from...
Full details of the exhibition can be found at https://uistarts.org/uaa-summer-exhibition-2021-news/ Members can submit up to 3 works to the Summer Exhibition All wall-works should be framed. As usual, we will aim to hang all work, or at least one work from each...
persistent winds howl
shrieking, groaning, moaning sighs
she darkness follows
the fallen stones assemble
into former walls where fairies meet
to tell their ancient tales
above the machair
a skylark sings a piobaireachd
we plant potatoes
a world on its own
the ferry weaves her own pattern
on the grey blue screen
small or wide, the sea
lying between land and tongues
the ferry bridging
sea thrift thrives on rock
flowers tremble in the breeze
summer has arrived
swerve of lapwing
across grey cloud
lifts the spirit
Exhibition and poetry pamphlet focusing on the coronavirus epidemic
heralding the day
sound, sight and sweet smells
our senses awake with gladness
barefoot freedom in
shallows of fathomless sea
they run with the waves
longing for tepid
gentleness on skin and soul
but rare this sea’s gift
think of green water
no, turquoise, think of blue
no, sapphire opal indigo
Image: Peter Ferguson
from kitchen window
the ocean is darkening
glimmer from Heisker
Poem: Chris Maclullich
wind swirls past the house
air from the Caribbean
now lifts the peat smoke
Poem: Chris Maclullich
the ocean sighing
rattles through the bright pebbles
same noise for aeons
Poem: Chris Maclullich
deserted croft house
I look inside the old walls
these were my people
leaving the islands
sailing back to the mainland
busy roads await
Poem: Chris Maclullich