🔴 "The Torment of Mrs Chisolm" (Mullardoch)

60 x 51 cm framed

Printed on Brilliant Supreme Luster paper and professionally framed by Tom Niven

Part of the ‘à làimh Shomhairle’ Exhibition at Tolbooth, Stirling. All artwork is fully insured and will be available for collection in January 2023

https://www.somhairle.co.uk/exhibition

Taken on the south side of Loch Mullardoch. It’s a strange area, a kind of monument, a graveyard to a lost way of life. It’s hard to explain without going there. The dead silver trees have a real presence as if they hold the secrets of this glen’s feudal past. Lots of people used to live up here, all the homes drowned by the hydro or displaced by malevolent lairds. Glen Affric and Glen Cannich used to be two of the main routes across the country, linking the west coast and the Isles to the markets in Inverness. The only written record of life in these glens are in a book called ‘Burn On The Hill: The Story Of The First 'Compleat Munroist'. Burn was walking through these remote glens at a time when they were still sparsely inhabited but on the cusp of a second Highland Clearance; as deer estates replaced sheep farming, and the First World War removed a generation of young men. It’s clear that no one but stalkers frequent the south side of loch Mullardoch now, it is wild and deathly silent on a winters night and is one of my favourite places to speak with the dead.