Category - Sea and Land

Arts & Crafts Sea and Land

Rhythms of art and island life

A highlight of this Year of Coasts and Waters is a retrospective exhibition of the work of the North Ronaldsay artist Ian Scott – online. With technical support from a family team, he has gathered together images of paintings and...

Frontiers 2018 Sea and Land

Climbing the Old Man of Hoy

Alison McLure of the Institute of Physics has travelled on expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic and is a member of Tayside Mountain Rescue team and gives talks on ‘The Physics of Mountain Rescue’. She has climbed...

Sea and Land

Pilgrims on the Brough of Deerness

After a bad forecast came a grey Sunday, the first of October. White waves were on the loch and clouds passed swiftly. Tones of gold and crimson lay over the swamp, and the trees were changing; there were drifts of leaves in...

Sea and Land

Little flower of the north

You’ll know it when you see it, with its delicate mauve petals and yellow centre, its short stalk rising from the little rosette of green leaves. It’s a little distance back from the sea-cliffs, tucked down in the transition zone...

Sea and Land

North Ronaldsay’s woolmill

North Ronaldsay sheep are an ancient breed, part of the family of Northern European short-tailed sheep. Other members include the Soay sheep and the Iceland sheep and other native breeds spread across the north from the Baltic to...