ST KILDA
2020
Crottlie Boreray, pen, ink, watercolour, sea water, 2020
Uaine, pen, ink, watercolour, sea water, 2020
Caolas an Duin, pen, ink, watercolour, sea water, 2020
Stac an Àrmainn, ink, sea water, 2020
Sgeir nan Sgarbh, pen, ink, watercolour, sea water, 2020
Stac Lì, ink, sea water, 2020
Village Bay, Island of Hiort, lith print, 2018
Island of Boraraigh, Stac Lì and Stac an Àrmainn, digital photograph, 2018
Cleit, Island of Hiort, lith print, 2018
Island of Boraraigh, Stac Lì and Stac an Àrmainn, digital photograph, 2018
Sea Cliff, digital photograph, 2018
North Atlantic, digital photograph, 2018
The word ‘isolate’ comes from French ‘isolé’ : placed on an island, as well as from Italian ‘isolato’ and from Latin ‘insulatus’ : made into an island. Due to the Covid-19 lockdowns, I revisited the islands of St Kilda, through the photographs and notes I took during my trip in the Summer of 2018. St Kilda is an isolated archipelago situated 40 miles west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean. I re-explored them digitally as I experienced my own enforced isolation during lockdown. The landscape paintings that emerged were fantasy-like, dreamy and illustrative so perhaps ‘dreamscapes’ is more fitting. I created work from my home as I daydreamed about wild places and cliffs and waves travelling across the North Atlantic.