Our Artists, Photographers and Makers

As a young man I spent part of every summer, with my camera, climbing in the Swiss, French and Italian Alps. Then in 1985 my wife, Polly also an artist, and I had our first backpacking holiday in South Harris. Since then the Hebrides have exerted a powerful influence on my life and work. The landscape is the prop for my prints over which drapes the weather in its various garbs. These days we explore the islands in our VW campervan allowing us to sit watching the weather fronts roll in off the Atlantic. I am enthralled by the dreamy mixture of landscape, sun, rain and mist.

Ken’s studio in Broadford, and his well travelled Campervan, allow him to make frequent forays into the landscape, sometimes to Highland glens and rivers but most frequently to the Western Isles of Uist and Harris. Here the huge skies, vast vistas and unpredictable weather fronts slot together through his lenses in kaleisdoscopic and unforgettable images of peace and solitude.