Limited Edition
Fine Art Giclee Prints
Limited Edition
Fine Art Giclee Prints
TROSSACHS NARRATIVES
TROSSACHS NARRATIVES
Trossachs Textiles
The Trossachs Collection is a personal exploration into the notion of home. Home involves an interaction between nature, community and warm human contact. To achieve this, the Trossachs Collection creates a conversation between Scotland's traditional past, and the landscape's contemporary present. Through an exploration and personal connection to her home environment, Orla aims to translate the environmental experience into textile designs. With a focus on colour, texture and tactility, this collection encourages similar experiences of emotions and connections for the user. Inspired by local folklore, history, music and landscape of the Trossachs National Park, these influences intertwine and result in this collection of printed and embroidered double sided blankets.
Trossachs blankets represent metaphorical nomadic homes: Encasing the user in their very own transportable textile home, which may be taken anywhere. When wrapped in a Trossachs blanket, you are immersed in your own sense of place, of home, wherever you may go.
Orla loves to create playful and atmospheric paintings and illustrations for individuals and businesses that incorporate expressive mark making, vibrant colours and handmade textures. Orla studied textile screen-printing BA(Hons) at Edinburgh College of Art, where she developed a love for analogue processes and experimentation.
You'll find Orla's artwork across a wide range of applications; from public artwork, to packaging, album artwork, as well as the collections of fine art paintings that Orla builds every year. Most recently, Orla has been collaborating with some of the UK’s leading contemporary classical composers, exploring the influence and commonalities between nordic music, culture, landscape and visual art. Artwork & performance will be shown at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022.
Inspiration is found everywhere; from many hiking and camping trips, folklore, historical sites and buildings, and little moments of everyday. Orla documents her experiences through sketchbooks that she carries everywhere with her, which provide records of moments and memories to later inspire work. Artwork is created in the studio, blending mixed media processes: combining painting, drawing and collage to capture atmosphere, memories and emotions.
Passionate to connect people with art and nature, Orla runs painting classes for public and private events. Additionally, she works as a team member at Print Clan - Glasgow's Open Access Textile Printing Studio.
Orla frequently creates bespoke artworks commissioned for private and public spaces and projects, and work is held in public and private collections worldwide.. To say hello, or commission artwork, please get in touch through the contact page: A full CV is available upon request.