Hiort. Margarita Williams
Margarita Williams D.A. (Holmasaig Gallery) who was born in Quidinish, (Cuidhtinis) Isle of Harris, studied drawing, painting and textiles at Glasgow school of Art . Her work using dyes in textile design led to her interest in using the transparent medium of watercolour. Mixed media techniques feature in her recent work. She lives in her home village painting the changing light on the surrounding landscape, sea, crofting environment and the wild flowers.
Margarita is a Gaelic speaker who is happy to converse in the language.
Inspired by a recent visit to St Kilda, Margarita has produced a series of works in watercolour and Japanese woodblock prints which, over the following months will be exhibited in the following venues:
1st - 31st July - Garyvard, South Lochs Exhibition, Isle of Lewis
13th - 31st August - Seallam Visitor Centre, Northon, Isle of Harris
1st - 30th September - The Rendezvouz Gallery, Aberdeen
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The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) collects, records and interprets information on the
architectural, industrial, archaeological and maritime heritage of
Scotland. We have been doing this for more than a hundred years, and our
archive offers a unique insight into the special nature of Scotland's
Places.
at the following venues,
11th August - 14th September - Sgoil Lionacleit, Benbecula
18th - 25th September - Daliburgh, S.Uist @ the Hebridean Archeology Forum
Maureen Kerr graduated from Glasgow Art School in Graphics in the late 1960s.
She pursued a career as a Graphics artist in Glasgow for 3 years before moving north.
She is now in the fortunate position of working for the military base out on St Kilda. She's been out there for 10 years and about 4 years ago started to paint again seriously.
She worked on St Kilda one month on, one month off and use her free time out there photographing, walking and painting the unique archipelago and its wonderful light.
She work mostly in watercolour and pen and ink and prefers to work outside.
As a follow-on from the 4-day conference on St Kilda 2010, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the evacuation of St Kilda (Lionacleit School, Benbecula, 11-14 August), there will be an exhibition of her art work in the following venue,
16th August - 6th September - Claddach Kirkibost Centre, North Uist.
RCHAMS
St Kilda: Mapping a future from the past
This is a small pop up exhibition that celebrates the completion of RCAHMS partnership project with the NTS to map the archaeological remains of the St Kilda island group. The exhibition is image based with minimal text, and the introductory text is in both English and Gaelic. Nine of the twelve panels belong to one dramatic image of Hirta, the main island of the archipelago. There is also a panel showing an extract of our survey data draped over an ortho-rectified aerial photograph and a panel that is a montage of cleits and field survey recording.
