Memories that are vivid, detailed and specific to time and place.
Island Rain
A collaboration with Christopher Whitelaw, master photographer and weaver of Harris Tweed. He lives and works with his rather wonderful wife, Polly, on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides.
Scarista
Scarista beach on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides.
I’ve been visiting these islands since the age of 17 when I hitch-hiked up there.
On this day, and the view is from the bottom of a friend’s garden, the sea fog (known as haar in some parts of the country) was so dense it was impossible to tell sea from sky.
Lie with me
The island of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago, a hundred miles north west of the Scottish mainland. A dual world heritage site, as important as Macchu Picchu in Peru. Humans have lived in these islands for millennia. Their presence is felt, especially when the weather turns. The extraordinary raw beauty of the place is awe inspiring and bequiling. It pulls at the heart …