Hebrides Socks
Description: I've been meaning to do this one for a while now. It comes from my trips to the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles as they now like to be called). I was walking on South Harris, and stopped at a point on the long winding road that leads to Luskentyre (Losgantir), some three miles in the distance. The tide was half out, and it was a gentle light that day in late Spring. Luskentyre is perhaps my favourite of all the places I've been around the British Isles. I hope from this painting you can see why. Painted in oil on board 16x12 inches
Description: At the end of a small single track road to the pretty bay of Carsaig on the Isle of Mull sits this very incongruous red telephone box. The kiosk was featured in the 1945 film "I know where I'm going to" and is now mainly used by tourists and hikers to this remote area. Surely there is no more picturesque setting to "Phone Home"?
Description: At the end of a small single track road to the pretty bay of Carsaig on the Isle of Mull sits this very incongruous red telephone box. The kiosk was featured in the 1945 film "I know where I'm going to" and is now mainly used by tourists and hikers to this remote area. Surely there is no more picturesque setting to "Phone Home"?
Description: Iona Abbey & Nunnery is an Abbey located on the tiny island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull. One of the oldest Christian religious centres in Western Europe, dating back to 563 it was established when St Columba came to Iona from Ireland and remains a popular site of Christian Pilgrimage today.
Description: Dipping your face into the Sligachan River is said, in myth, to give you everlasting beauty. That may or may not be the case -- you'll have to ask the few people on my tour who were game enough to put their head in the ice cold waters -- but the river itself certainly has its own everlasting beauty!
Description: This design was made by first photographing a little flower with a macro lens, using blending modes to change the leave colors, creating it into a paint brush, carefully mapping out the iles of lewis and harris and then painting the interior with the little flower. The lettering is done using a chalk effect. Hope you like it.
