Welcome to the Hulabhaig Newsletter #3
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| Seaforth - Oil and mixed media on canvas - Mary Morrison |
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My Quest for Art Continues... |
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This month I’m pleased to share two highlights in my quest for island contemporary art, the first was an artist studio visit in the beautiful location of Kyles in Harris, and secondly, a new exhibition at An Lanntair which was eagerly anticipated an well worth the visit.
I love visiting artist studios, and that of Harris based artist Mary Morrison didn’t disappoint, in fact I came away with three more artworks for the collection.
And the 40 ÷ 40 exhibition at An Lanntair was a heaven sent opportunity to further my own research and study into island contemporary art.
A wonderful chance to see important work from important island artists spanning the last 40 years. |
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| The Hulabhaig Collection.
A small but growing collection of Island Contemporary Art, shared online. |
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Locus Amoenus
Mary Morrison
2021
Photo plate lithography, monoprint and oil on paper.
H:420 x W:300
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Locus amoenus (‘pleasant place’) is a literary term which refers to an idealized place of safety or comfort which generally has three basic elements: trees, grass, and water. Often it will be in a remote place and function as a landscape of the mind, and also a place of refuge from the processes of time and mortality...
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| Forty works by forty artists over four decades of An Lanntair
8 March to 17 May 2025. |
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Donald Smith's painting ‘Iasgar Mòr: Fisherman’, is a wonderfully stylised depiction of a fisherman mending his nets, strong in stature with large powerful hands dextrously manipulating such tiny knots unseen in the impressionist brush strokes but clearly the focal point of the subjects undivided attention... |
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| Mary Morrison Studio Visit
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Visiting an artist’s studio is a remarkable experience, there is an anticipation of expectation which you know will change once you are there, especially when you are there to add to your collection. |
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‘S Fhada Leum an Oidhche Gheamraidh (I Feel the Winter Night is Long) Mary Morrison 2016 Oil/Mixed Media on paper H:260 x W:1020(mm) You can’t beat the wonderful fast flowing onslaught of ideas and concepts that flows from an artist in their studio, as Mary was flicking through old archived work, offering insights into her creative process and influences, I was catching snippets of new directions in current work, thoughts on work that had stalled, work that was waiting for resolution, all while drinking in the smell of paint thickening the creative air. I could have spent all day listening, looking and sensing, but a choice had to be made… |
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| Books About Island Contemporary Art
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A selection of books from the Hulabhaig bookshelf |
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Images at our Feet
Stephan-Maria Aust, Heike Winter and Magz Macleod |
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Street art in the truest meaning – art that is lying on the street. Everything about this book is extraordinary. Extraordinary photographic subjects, in an extraordinary combination with poetry, in German and in English and a further, extraordinary language – Scottish Gaelic.
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