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.
Hello! I'm Orla, a Scottish artist working across painting and illustration, exploring themes of curiosity, play, joy, awe, and looking to capture the small moments that connect us more deeply to the world around us.
My work is inspired by how places, objects, and moments feel — from coastlines, lochs and mountain tops to city streets, cafés, and time with friends. Rooted in the natural world and our connections with nature, I’m drawn to capture everyday adventures and beauty: the quiet, unremarkable moments that hold meaning, memory, or a sudden sense of wonder.
I use my sketchbooks, plein-air / on-location painting and studio practice as a way to notice more, to slow down, and to stay open to wherever inspiration appears.
Alongside my own work, I run The Outdoor Sketchbook Collective — an online community that encourages others to connect with nature, place, and creativity through sketching, workshops, and gentle exploration.
Over the years, I’ve created art for organisations like Hendrick’s Gin, the National Galleries of Scotland, the NHS, and Fib Whisky, with paintings collected internationally.
Why I Create
Having spent most childhood holidays and weekends up hills or camping in tents along Scotland's north west coast, I suppose it was inevitable that nature would play an incredibly influential role in my life. Spending time immersed in nature is what connects me to myself, to the world and others in it, and is where I believe a childhood sense of exploration, joy, care and wonder can be found, no matter a persons age.
While studying at design school, I discovered painting and instantly fell in love with how the process made me feel. In it, I saw it's potential to communicate the experience of play, wonder and joy with others, and tie all that I love most together: being outside, painting, and sharing and encouraging others to find a space for exploration and wonder in their everyday too.
Learn more
Patreon - Through 'The Outdoor Sketchbook Collective' I run a global online learning community for people interested in learning to paint, connect with others and be inspired by nature and landscapes.
Substack - A monthly-ish free blog post, delivered as a newsletter straight to your inbox. Here I write about creative practice, painting trips outdoors, and nature journalling.
Youtube - I share two monthly videos, inviting you in to my studio to document my creative process and projects, and to share reflections on artistic practices.
Orla's work looks to capture the everyday moments that connect us more deeply to nature and the world around us.
