“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” John LubbockWith the stresses and strains of everyday life, it is all too easy to look inwards not outwards, yet, it is nature that teaches us how to retain perspective. With the sky so vast, the air so fresh and the ground so wild, we pass mountains that tower above us and, for a very rare moment, we remain the only vertical framed amongst a mass of horizontals. Slowly but surely, our problems that once paralysed us evaporate like rain into clouds of insignificance and we breathe the fresh mountain air, cleansing our minds. Highlands and islands are lands of exploration and the artists take us down rugged heather pathways, cruise us down serene ski-slopes and help us pass hesitantly under dark foreboding skies; coming to rest by tranquil lakes where the gentle lapping water calms and soothes us into stillness.

| | | | | | | | Beached Whale Driftwood | | | 20.3 by 30.4cm. (8.12′ x 12.16′) | | | digital photography | | | by Frank Ash – more artworks, artist’s CV | | | £ 190 | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | Scottish summer scene with birch trees | | | 40 by 30cm. (16′ x 12′) | | | Oil on canvas | | | by Liz Balogh – more artworks, artist’s CV | | | £ 920 | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | north shore window barrel | | | 30 by 43cm. (12′ x 17.2′) | | | giclee print on archival paper | | | by danita cole – more artworks, artist’s CV | | | £ 130 | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | Cyclamen | | | 15 by 15cm. (6′ x 6′) | | | pencil, watercolour – stretched box canvas print, also available as greeting card – £2.00 | | | by Louise Cunningham – more artworks, artist’s CV | | | £ 80 | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | High | | | 890 by 600cm. (356′ x 240′) | | | Drawn and Scanned. Manipulated on Corel Draw | | | by Jon Del Mar – more artworks, artist’s CV | | | £ 570 | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | Sunset Over Skye Bridge | | | 20 by 27cm. (8′ x 10.8′) | | | Pastel and Mixed Media on Paper | | | by MATTHEW DAVID EVANS – more artworks, artist’s CV | | | £ 190 | | | | | | | |
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