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SARAH CARRINGTON
Distant Rain, Malin
Mixed media with gold leaf
59 x 84 cm

Carrington's memories of childhood holidays to the west coast of Scotland and student sailing excursions around the Hebrides have had a lasting influence on her paintings.

https://t.co/IcEayosIpt

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2021-03-20

Luskentyre - Emerald Sea by Karen Sinsclar Willis https://t.co/LT7dGVUX9F Signed limited edition prints available. Buy now and get Free UK mainland delivery

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2021-01-07

The final part of my was expected to be on the the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of I spent three nights in the village of with its lovely harbour and people: https://t.co/neGWrvfJF4

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2020-11-17

About one year ago I visited the Outer Hebrides and spend a week photographing and painting the landscape and two days working with . Little did I know how timely and important that trip was going to be. So many drawings and paintings were inspired there and then.

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2020-10-06

Hebrides,Cailleach or Gobhar Bhacach ("Lame Goat")was an ambiguous figure.A farmer who finished harvesting might throw it into fields of neighbour who had not finished.Regarded an insult, so violence/bloodshed erupted as a result. https://t.co/6sCcnUob1W

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2020-09-17

No-one comes to the lane end
But the old shepherd bent hard
To find his fattened flock

On the high cliffs he’ll find them
Or by the blackened skerries
Sheltered by lewisian rock

Evening

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2020-09-10

The blue men of the Minch, also known as storm kelpies are mythological creatures inhabiting the stretch of water between northern Outer Hebrides & mainland Scotland. They wait in the depths for sailors to drown & stricken boats to sink.

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2020-09-02

Bed time..

Summer Storm Vatersay, Hebrides

🎨 Kim Jarvis

Good night tweeps.

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2020-08-29

My reconstruction of our from I chose in a vivid pallete, inspired by Scottish illustrator travel sketches from the Hebrides. Finished with fineliner and coloured pencil.

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2020-08-28

I am a mad Scottish scientist. My outfit is a tartan kilt. My assistant is crow. My lab is in a secret location in the Outer Hebrides. My project with the aid of crow is finding out how humans can fly.

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2020-07-22

We're going north to the remoteness of where our Artist of the Week Philip Raskin seeks his inspiration. As a major Scottish artist, Philip’s paintings capture the dynamic & unfolding drama of constantly changing landscapes around the
https://t.co/D74SEBAxGX

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2020-06-06

A little oil on linen board painting of in the hands down one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been.

https://t.co/RgSQTGynqi

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2020-04-29

From expansive skies, to microscopic shells: your Ruskin a view across the sea toward the Hebrides, has reminded us of Ruskin’s seashells, preserving ‘something like a true image of beautiful things that pass away, or which you must yourself leave.’ https://t.co/yX5bNrfQL7

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2020-04-08

In the Outer Hebrides, Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) was used to prevent the theft of milk by witchcraft.

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2020-03-13

1902 Some of the people in the [Hebrides] Islands have such a horror of the dead that there is sometimes a difficulty in getting a corpse prepared for burial. It is said that those who have once handled a dead body are never afraid again.

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2020-01-28