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.
Northern Edgelands - Solo Show
Northern Edgelands has been inspired by many camping and walking trips along the north west mainland of Scotland and Orkney Isles. Two years in the making, works span across paper, canvas, textiles and wood, documenting the landscapes, seascapes, experiences and stories learnt along the way.
This series is informed by slow travel, which gives time to observe and record shapes, lines, textures, sounds and colours through audio recordings, sketchbooks, photos and plein-air paintings. The associated memories and wide body of research was taken back to the studio to be explored and abstracted into loose marks, bright colours and a growing collection of returning motifs relating to the coastal landscape.
The work celebrates Orla’s love for coastal paths, seascapes and edge lands - the spaces in between, where the land and water meet.
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