Tag: Western Isles

  • Not knowing where I’m going

    Not knowing where I’m going

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    a philosophic post from Bruce

  • make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

    make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

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    Kate talks to Flora Collingwood-Norris about mending, Scottish islands, and how colour makes you feel

  • Light and lambs

    Light and lambs

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    Hello everyone, it’s Tom here. I thought I’d pop in to share some of my photos from our recent Hebridean trip to the isle of Berneray (Eilean Bhearnaraigh). As a photographer, I find the ever-changing weather and shifting quality of light in Scotland’s Western Isles really stimulating in my work. On this trip we were…

  • finlaggan

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    When I considered the Islay walks I’d be capable of doing, the first place I thought of was Finlaggan. On the boat over from Kennacraig, I was longing to go, and we drove there as soon as we made landfall. During the Middle Ages, Western Scotland retained a strongly independent Gaelic culture whose political centre…

  • in colour

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    I’ve been thinking a lot about colour of late, and about how closely one’s experience of colour is tied up with one’s experience of landscape. I had a conversation with Mel the other day — concerning the crazy hues of the lichens she’d seen in a particular West Highland location — and was reminded of…