Laird Creations / Martin Laird Orcadian artist

Art | Design | Animation | Photography | Film-making

Portfolio Tag: Hoy

Animation & Film-making 18

Cartoons & Illustration 32

Collage & Photomontage 3

Drawing & Painting 36

Exhibitions & Events 14

Manish Buoy - a sad man with a buoy for a head, sitting cross-legged on the shoreline with a Kelpie in the water. There is a solar eclipse in the sky and an impending storm. — Drawing & Painting

Manish Buoy

Njuggles (aka Kelpies) - an exhibition taking place in the windows of Northlight Gallery, Stromness, from Saturday 31st October to Friday 13th November 2020. — Drawing & Painting

Exhibition – Njuggles

Alexander Graham protesting unfair tax levied on Stromness, standing behind a wealthy Kirkwall burgher with a protest placard. — Cartoons & Illustration

Alexander Graham

King James VI with the head of Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, who was beheaded for treason. Acrylic, 2020. — Cartoons & Illustration

James VI & Earl Patrick Stewart

Peter Maxwell Davies with the No Uranium mining protest sign, a nuclear symbol, notation from his Yellow Cake Revue, and a swan. — Cartoons & Illustration

Yellow Cake Revisted

A little boy is startled by his Granny becoming a frothing monster spectating the Ba. — Cartoons & Illustration

The Ba

For Whom does the Wind Blow, energy policy being reserved to Westminster? Cartoon depicting Alistair Carmichael MP blowing a paper wind turbine. Pen, ink & gouache, 2019. — Cartoons & Illustration

For Whom does the Wind Blow?

Last Call for Life on Earth - Death takes tickets of holidaymakers boarding a plane. — Cartoons & Illustration

Last Call for Life on Earth

HMS Pheasant 1917 crowdfunder ad. Visit www.crowdfunder.co.uk/hms-pheasant-1917 for more information and to donate — Drawing & Painting

HMS Pheasant 1917

Cataclysmic climate change? Just roll with it! The all-new Toyanka Wastelander. Gas-guzzling SUV driver throws rubbish at a walker while potentially fatally close-passing a cyclist. — Cartoons & Illustration

Cataclysmic climate change?

Mrs Baikie of Tankerness, after a portrait by Stanley Cursiter — Animation & Film-making

A Gude Cause Maks A Strong Erm – watch online

black and white photograph of Rora Head, Hoy — Photography

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