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make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

Kate talks to Flora Collingwood-Norris about mending, Scottish islands, and how colour makes you feel

Light and lambs

By: Kate Davies Designs May 3, 2019May 3, 2019

landscape, photography, Scotland, sheepBerneray, Hebrides, lambs, landscape, photography, sheep, soay, soay sheep, Western Isles81 Comments

Hello everyone, it’s Tom here. I thought I’d pop in to share some of my photos from our recent Hebridean trip to the isle of Berneray (Eilean Bhearnaraigh). As a photographer, I find the ever-changing weather and shifting quality of light in Scotland’s Western Isles really stimulating in my work. On this trip we were…

finlaggan

By: Kate Davies Designs June 2, 2010June 2, 2010

History, Islay, Scotland, walkingFinlaggan, History, Islay, Lords of the Isles, Scotland, walking, Western Isles33 Comments

When I considered the Islay walks I’d be capable of doing, the first place I thought of was Finlaggan. On the boat over from Kennacraig, I was longing to go, and we drove there as soon as we made landfall. During the Middle Ages, Western Scotland retained a strongly independent Gaelic culture whose political centre…

in colour

I’ve been thinking a lot about colour of late, and about how closely one’s experience of colour is tied up with one’s experience of landscape. I had a conversation with Mel the other day — concerning the crazy hues of the lichens she’d seen in a particular West Highland location — and was reminded of…