Fiona Pearson

“Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars, what is it? If not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with winds of homecoming” – Rilke

Oil painting and water colours. Detailed drawings of cup marked stones.

I have lived and worked in North Uist for over 40 years. At the end of a five mile single track road, I overlook as sea loch and the surrounding moors. There are very few trees. The peat moors give way on the west coat to grassland fringed by shell sand and white beaches. An empty landscape, but the space is full of movement