The Night Sky…..Ness of Brodgar Newsletter…..From Kilmorack Gallery….From Orkney.com….
by Bernie Bell - 08:05 on 06 December 2023
The Night Sky…..
This morning – 2.30 – the sky was a pure, deep black – with all the stars you can think of......
And I remembered reading this…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/11/04/horizons/
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Ness of Brodgar Newsletter 38…..
https://go.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/nl3/_Pc10P8lsFx3kWvrZSBsAQ?hl=en
For Finds Supervisor Anne Mitchell, the most exciting find at The Ness has been Neolithic wood – I can see why….
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16441
And – from the on-line shop you could get yourself a replica Extra-Ordinary-A-Symmetrical-Six-Knobber…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/12/29/mathematical-musings-of-the-neolithic-kind/
Ours is now placed on the plinth of a Michael Sinclair wooden bowl….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/01/07/timelines-of-an-orkney-wood-turner/
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From Kilmorack Gallery….
“We chose a landscape exhibition, Borrowed Land, to be the first themed exhibition since our 'Sculptors and their Drawing' exhibition in 2014. The reason for this landscape-loving statement now is because of current threats to land and sea. It is important to care for these ecosystems above all else. It is also because artists who take their inspiration directly from nature should be further up the artistic hierarchy. To capture something as large as the world around us in a tangible, take-home form, is no small feat. All art that reminds us of mysteries should be venerated. A landscape painting can still be an icon. Here are further highlights from this exhibition.
Maggie New's painting Bright Rolling creates scale by having concentrated pops of warmth revealed through fields of yellow and orange tones. In music, it is the notes that are not there, the restraint, that makes a song great. It is the same in painting.
Allan MacDonald's upstream, downstream, Eskadale is not only masterful in is handling of paint but it creates a metaphor, a feeling of entering the light, or leaving the shadow. I asked him about the paddleboarder, and he told me she passed him so quickly it could have been a mirage.
In Jane MacNeill's Deep Winter, Northern Corries, our eyes are pulled to the winter snow and beyond. We feel its weight and the mountainous silence. It is MacNeill's control of the painting's surface and the transitions from water to mountain, mountain to corrie and corrie to sky that give her work a special language.
Tony Davidson, Gallery Director
Always open by appointment. Full opening times online.
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From Orkney.com….
“Inspired by the sights and sounds of the islands, Orkney is home to a thriving creative sector, crafting jewellery, knitwear, ceramics, furniture, sculptures and painting.
Jewellery designed and made in Orkney
Textiles and knitwear from Orkney
Homeware hand-crafted in Orkney
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/03/13/easy-pizza/
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