Laird Creations / Martin Laird Orcadian artist

Art | Design | Animation | Photography | Film-making

Portfolio Category: Cartoons

Animation & Film-making 21

Cartoons & Illustration 32

Collage & Photomontage 3

Drawing & Painting 37

Exhibitions & Events 16

Mormaer Matad of Atholl with Earl Harald Maddadson. Charcoal portrait by Martin Laird showing the infant Earl playing board games and wielding a large knife while his father makes a mad face wearing a horned woollen hat. — Drawing & Painting

Maddad and Maddadson

Dimittit In Artes: Arty Farty Watch Party! Vernon Bradley and Martin Laird acting like fools at the premiere of their film in meat space in Stromness. Join them for the online streaming premiere on YouTube on Friday 28th June at 8.30pm BST. — Animation & Film-making

Arty Farty Watch Party!

Vernon Bradley: Dimittit In Artes, a film by Martin Laird. Vernon faces off against a skull-faced psychopomp. Both are wearing berets. Desaturated except for the colour red which dominates a painting by Vernon Bradley in the background. Film premiere poster. Friday 7th June 2024, Stromness Community Centre, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 on the door. One person will win one of Vernon's paintings. — Animation & Film-making

Dimittit In Artes premiere

Hall of Clestrain, birthplace of the Arctic explorer John Rae. We will be restoring this place. Help build the road to the Arctic - visit www.johnraesociety.com. — Animation & Film-making

Hall of Clestrain – John Rae Society film

Bishop William the Old miraculously loses and regains his sight. Black and white india ink drawing showing Bishop William stretching his hands up towards God. Behind him the skeletal visage of Saint Magnus removes his hands from William's eyes. — Cartoons & Illustration

The Miracle of Bishop William the Old

Thorkell Forester, advisor to Thorfinn the Mighty, stabs Earl Einar and throws him into the fire. — Cartoons & Illustration

Another Earl Murdered

The Strawplaiters of Orkney - coloured pencil drawing of a spinster sitting in an Orkney chair plaiting straw. — Cartoons & Illustration

The Strawplaiters of Orkney

A standard bearer holding the Raven Banner is impaled by a spear. Valkyries on horseback ride in the sky weaving a net of entrails and skulls. — Cartoons & Illustration

The Raven Banner

Passing the Standard. A man in highland dress carrying a Saltire flag is stabbed in the back by a masked woman in red. A young girl carrying a small Saltire reaches towards him. They are surrounded by a horde of angry bald men. In the background the Wallace Monument and forest are silhouetted against a burning sky. — Cartoons & Illustration

Passing the Standard

Sikkersnapper - I Once Loved A Lass (Orkney Blackening) music video still-frame showing wedding guests entering St Magnus Cathedral. One man in a suit strides out of the shot. — Animation & Film-making

Blackening

Coronation collage made from 1935 jubilee and 1953 coronation souvenir memorabilia. Charles' angry face is made from ermine and velvet. He is passing through a series of gilt picture frames holding an orb and sceptre in his sausage fingers. The background is a torn mess of royalist propaganda photographs showing soldiers, parades, coaches, etc. — Collage & Photomontage

Coronation

The Meeting of Commissioners - collage made from early 20th century adverts and Royalist propaganda. Triangular composition with Scotsmen raising swords over a chicken. Black tentacled eye above. Surrounded by a frame of Royal heraldry and gold coins. — Collage & Photomontage

The Meeting of Commissioners

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