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's work looks to connect people to nature: Inspired by the importance of creative play, exploration and positivity that both her artistic process and being in the outdoors share.
Hello there! My name is Orla and I am a multidisciplinary Scottish artist, illustrator and visual designer.
My practice looks to connect people to nature, and explore our relationship with the outdoors: Inspired by the importance of creative play, exploration, improvisation and positivity that both my artistic process and being in the outdoors share.
Through painting, I explore my own connections to places, mapping memories and multi-sensory experiences. Sounds, visuals and emotions are represented through colours, marks, textures and shapes to capture a sense of place. Within my paintings, musicality, rhythm, improvisation and harmony are important considerations in my practice. I often collaborate with musicians and composers to explore this audio-visual conversation. Patterns from the landscape, walking, music or field recordings are heard or seen and feature through work as textures, repeating marks, shapes and motifs.
My work is influenced by my background in screen printed textiles, a love for folk art, and my connections to nature. A firm believer in the importance of accessibility across art and access to the outdoors, I hope my work through painting, community arts, teaching and illustration encourages more ways of noticing, celebrating and protecting our natural spaces.
I hold a BA with Honours from Edinburgh College of Art in Screen Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design.
Work is held in public and private collections worldwide, and exhibited in galleries across Europe. I frequently create bespoke artworks commissioned for private and public spaces and projects.
In addition to fine art, you'll find me working on;
Commissioned Paintings
Print & Pattern Design
Murals
Packaging Design
Illustration
Live / graphic scribing - in person & online
Map Design
Public Art Installation
Teaching & Course Design
Branding
To say hello, work together, or commission artwork, please get in touch through the contact form below!
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