Category: Drawing & Painting

  • Memories of Pirate Gow

    Memories of Pirate Gow

    Memories of Pirate Gow Memories of Pirate Gow is an artwork comprised of digital drawing and photomontage. It is inspired by the story of the infamous Orcadian Pirate John Gow and the unusual structure known as Gow’s Folly (or the Groatie Hoose), which was constructed using ballast material from his ship. As I studied this…

  • The Road to Deepdale

    The Road to Deepdale

    โ€œJust because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.โ€ Joseph Heller, Catch-22 The Road to Deepdale The Deepdale Monster was almost certainly a dead basking shark which washed up on the rocky shore of Deepdale Bay in Holm, Orkney, in 1941. Today Deepdale Bay is polluted with an unusually large amount of plastic trash…

  • Post-Ironic Salmond Love

    Post-Ironic Salmond Love

    Post-ironic Salmond Love From Saturday 13th to Friday 26th March, Northlight Gallery in Stromness will be showing (in the windows only) work for The Great Big Art Exhibition 2021, on the themes of Animals, Portraits, Colour and Humour. This exhibition, organised by https://firstsite.uk/, aims to be the largest art exhibition ever held. It is open…