Scotland

Blackcraig Hill by Dirk Pelly,
a local artist. Blackcraig is
close to Craig en Puttock
and threatened by 23 giant
turbines

The turbines approaching - these ones, at Moniaive, were just being erected (no blades yet) as I visited here last. They are ten miles away, with many more possible, closer by.

David Bellamy, Alison Chapman
and other artists at the first Paint-it-while-its-there Day
on Blackcraig Hill

If Thomas Carlyle lived in
Craig en Puttock today,
this would be his wheelie
bin

Craig en Puttock
The home of Thomas and Jane Carlyle in Victorian times
(More information and links coming on this page)

A plea to save the wild
places, by Gerald Manley Hopkins, engraved
(so ironically) on the walls
of the Scottish Parliament

A drawing of Milkside, in Dumfriesshireby my great uncle John (Jock) Palmer.
His mother, my great grandmother, may have lived near the Carlyle family at one time

This is a pastel painting (not completed) that
I began after my first visit to Craig en Puttock.
An earlier painting from this view was commisioned by Schiller( who so loved this house and its location) for the cover of a book. The artist then was George Moir, and I am doing a present-day version, which will be completed after this autumn`s walk in Scotland.

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Blackcraig Hill from New Galloway, by Patricia
McCrow, who died this
year.
I will never forget how she braved the icy winds to
paint on Blackcraig Hill
at the Paint it Day.