The Duchess of Argyll docked with the Atalanta and Fusilier nearby, from a collection from Glasgow shipowners Thomas Law & Co (Shire Line). The company's passenger cargo ships sailed principally to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Ref: TD1407/3/1

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Pablo Neruda wrote, ‘I need the sea because it teaches me.’

It’s true, you can’t go down or out to sea without discovering something either about the world or yourself.

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Among the Crests of the Order of the Thistle on display at Biggar Museum until August 10th, is the "boar’s head couped Or, armed Argent and langued Gules" of John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell 9th Duke of Argyll KG KT GCMG GCVO PC (1845-1914).

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Wonderful location to spend a few days, superb walking & cycling

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Indeed. Canmore records sites & objects in each county, but you'd need to check each entry's date. Caithness has 3624 entries. Your Scottish competitors are:
Aberdeenshire
Argyll
Dumfries & Galloway
Inverness-shire
Lanarkshire
Perthshire
Ross & Cromarty
Roxburghshire
Sutherland

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COMING SOON 👀
Andrew Tough at Scotland Art Gallery. Get an exclusive invite to the opening, by adding yourself to our mailing list here https://t.co/CNP6i9jgCR

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Standing at the edge of Loch Etive & I can see the Milky Way, Mars, Saturn, Pluto & a photobombing Perseid! What a perfect sky 👌🏻💫🦄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⁦

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Two paintings from my recent trip to Loch Long, Argyll.

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Looking forward to taking a new body of work over to the Gigha Gallery this Friday for my solo show running from 31st March until the end of May.

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Can't post any new work for a while, so here's a piece I did back in 2014. "The Plundering of Airlie". Based on a folk song by Kate Rusby wherein the terrible Argyll pillages Airlie and makes the lady of the house watch her home burn.

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Spent today finishing off some smaller paintings. 35 x45cm

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A west coast sunset to warm you up! 107 x 107cm

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