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.
Hendrick's Gin x Scottish Curling Championships
Artwork in collaboration with Hendrick's Gin for the Scottish Curling Championships 2024.
For this project, I designed artwork for the ice, found in the houses, hog lines and centre of the rink. This unusual project was brought together for the sponsorship of the curling championships, and to highlight the connections that tie Hendrick's Gin and the history of Scottish curling together.
Each of the 4 illustrations are inspired by a different stage in the journey from Hendrick’s Gin Palace to the Isle of Ailsa Craig, where the granite for curling stones are quarried. Watch the short film which captures the process of the project here or below.
GIN PALACE
The first artwork takes inspiration from the Gin Palace itself; the architecture, the land and big skies of the coast.
BOTANICS
Within the Gin Palace are two magical glass houses, which are home to hundreds of species of plants and botanicals, which form Hendrick’s Gin’s signature flavours. All of these shapes and textures inspired the second artwork you’ll spot on the rink!
ROCK TO RINK
This third artwork follows the granite sailing back to land, to be shaped and formed into final curling stones. I’m always intrigued by how things are made, so I took inspiration from the processes that the granite goes through, to reach its final form too.
SEA
Last but not least, this final house is a homage to the sea, underwater world and marine life that ties the coast line together, using drawings from snorkelling trips around Scotland to inform the artwork.
