Last week, on a bright November day, I headed off to Mugdock Country Park, north of Glasgow, to practice making things with natural materials. On almost every visit to the outdoors, I'll end up making something. I'm always on the look out for different materials that I can bend and twist and weave and shape. …
Category: Art inspired by nature
Stone and Wool Pendant Necklace
I was up in Shetland last week guiding for About Argyll Walking Holidays and taking inspiration from all the beautiful shells, pebbles, driftwood and other natural materials you find whilst out hiking I decided to make a stone and wool pendant necklace. I am a bit of a magpie when it comes to pebbles and …
Zillerholm
My brother JR Ewen's paintings are inspired by his travels and affinity to some special places: Zillertal in Austria, where is wife is from; Shetland, his childhood home; together with Italy and Slovenia. These places have blended together to become an imaginary land of mountains and seascapes called Zillerholm. JR's body of ZIllerholm inspired work …
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