Art to See: Scotland

  

From Death to Death and Other Small Tales at Scottish National Galleries

As I'm in Scotland for the Summer, I thought I'd give a round-up of some of the great art to see here in the coming months. With the Edinburgh Festival coming up in August there's always lots to see, If I was in Edinburgh I'd see....

Billboard for Edinburgh: Marine Hugonnier {The sky the night we walked on the moon}

at Ingleby Gallery

Peter Liversidge: doppelganger at Ingleby Gallery

 

Man Ray Portraits at Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Leonardo Da Vinci, The Mechanics of Man at the Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse

Cairo to Constantinople at the Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse

Mary Queen of Scots at National Museums Scotland

  

 Goldsworthy & Gallaccio & more outdoor sculpture at Jupiter Artland

Louise Bourgeois: I give everything away at Fruitmarket Gallery {from October 26th} in and around Edinburgh

& there's loads going on for the Edinburgh Art Festival, these are my picks to see: 

 
Artist Rugs & Dazzle jewellery showcase at Dovecot Studios    



Gabriel Orozco at Fruitmarket Gallery 


 
Elizabeth Blackadder: Works on Paper at The Scottish Gallery

 
James Lumsden: Chromatic Visions at Scottish Arts Club

 

Alberto Morrocco: Drawing on Life at Open Eye Gallery

 
Bobby Niven: Palm of the Hand at Old Ambulance Depot

 
Peter Doig, No Foreign Lands at Scottish National Gallery  


   
Martin Green: Scuffed Underside & Johnny Miller: Hut Drawings  at Summerhall 

Elsewhere around Scotland I'd see...

 

Scottish Colourist Series: SJ Peploe at Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum

 

Everyday sculpture at Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow

Nicola Kirkaldy & Iede Reckman: The Horizon of Gravity Hill at CCA in Glasgow

 

Occupying Forms: Carla Scott Fullerton at Glasgow Print Studio

 

Geologic Intimacy: Ilana Halperin & There Will Be New Rules Next Week at Dundee Contemporay Arts

Katy Spong at Highland Print Studio, Inverness

What would you see?
 

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Postcard Sets on Etsy

  

Do you remember my sandwiches project and my Brett Dennen Posters? Well I got some postcards of them printed up and they are now for sale in my Etsy Shop!

 

I know what I'll be having for lunch today, Pastrami on Rye, my fave! What's yours?

{& here's a little etsy treasury I made with all things sandwich related!}

 

  

& did you see Brett has just released a new tune 'Wild Child' off his new album which is released in October {can't wait!}

  

I've also just put up for sale single cards of my Sakura Thank You & Birthday Cards, go check them out!

Summer on Skye: Rubha Hunish

  

One of our favourite walks on Skye is out to Rubha Hunish, the most northerly tip of the Isle of Skye {here's some photos of the same walk from May 2011}. Along the way there's a castle, an abandoned village, a bothy {which was an old coastguard hut}, a steep scramble down cliffs, seal-spotting, lots of nesting birds and perhaps even dolphins & minke whales. Here's what we saw a few weeks ago...

  

To Erisco {the abandoned village}...

Duntulm Castle {Can you tell I've been having lots of fun with filters & photoshop actions?}

Looking behind towards the Quiraing

We spotted this strange looking tug close to the shore {It looked like Howl's Moving Castle!}

     
You can just see Erisco, the abandoned village of houses (now piles of stones) in a line. The village housed all the coastguard workers that worked in the coastguard station, and became abandoned when modern technologies replaced eyes and there was no longer work for them.

     

Highlan' Coo!

 

Towards the Quiraing

    

The Old Coastguard Hut, now a Bothy, where you can spend the night/take shelter, see the Mountain Bothies Association for more info!


 The Shiant Islands (read Adam Nicolson's great book 'Sea Room' which details all about them when he inherited the islands from his father!)

     

Scrambling down to the headland (the most northerly point on Skye!)

  

 Amazing Cliffs

 Rubha Hunish 

  

  

 Thrift, Thrift, Thrift everywhere!

You can just see the diagonal path we scrambled down!

 

Such amazing geology, what an unbelievable amount of incredible energy there had to be to create you!

 

We spotted lots of seals, popping their heads up, they're so curious! I also spotted some dolphins arching their backs out of the water, an incredible sight {no one else saw them, you've got to keep your eyes peeled at all times!}

 Sailboat Ahoy!

 

Around the headland we go...

Beautifully blue calm sea

  

 

Seabird spotting; cormorants, guillemots and nesting birds, oh my! {we had to lie down to see them over the cliffs, so we didn't fall over the edge!}

  

  

Lots of sea stacks around the headland, the land is always ever-changing by the sea {nothing lasts forever, not even the mountains, as Brett Dennen would sing}

You can see why it's such a favourite walk, you always see something different and the wildlife is fantastic!