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Art
There is something about the light and colours in Orkney that inspires artists. The first to really capture its beauty was Sir Stanley Cursiter, the Orcadian who became Director of the National Galleries of Scotland and Queen's Painter and Limner for Scotland. An exhibition of his landscapes, portraits and studies is running all summer in the Orkney Museum.
Orkney now has a thriving artistic community with many privately run galleries and shops. The Pier Arts Centre in Stromness has just been re-opened having more than doubled in size. It houses Margaret Gardiner’s major collection of modern art, including work by Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, and hosts regular exhibitions of work by visiting or local artists. The new building is quite stunning and worth visiting in its own right.
Whenever you come to Orkney you can be sure of the chance to admire and perhaps buy local art. If you'd really like an Orkney painting but just don't have room in your suitcase, buy it here and have it delivered to your door. If there is a particular artist whose work you'd like to buy, please let us know and we'll see what we can do. In the meantime, we will be offering an ever-growing selection here.
Packs of blank cards make a nice little gift and they're also very useful to have in the house when you realise you've forgotten to buy that birthday card or want to send a quick note to a friend. The white-line prints and watercolours make lovely stand-by cards.
 Brodgar Watercolours |  White Line Cards |
These prints of charming ink drawings by Gloria Wallington are on 190g textured ivory art paper. The paper is 30cm x 25cm.
 All Six Drawings |  Cat's Cradle |  Corrigall Kitchen |
Special ink-jet printers, designed to produce fine art, are used for giclee prints. Between six and twelve different colours of fade-resistant inks are sprayed in a fine stream of more than four million droplets per second. The combinations of colours and the variations in hues and density give almost infinite variations.
New York artist Jeanne Rose is fascinated by standing stones and visits Orkney regularly. She brings students here on a week-long art course to share her appreciation of the Orkney light and landscape.
 Fields of Hay |  Old Man of Hoy from Yesnaby |  Stenness Stance |
These paintings are all by Stromness based artist Gloria Wallington.
 Breckness, Warbeth |  Brodgar Shadows |  Kirbister Loch |
 Kirkwall Harbour |  Lupins and Daisies |  Old Mill Finstown |
White-line woodblock is also known as Provincetown Print, after the town in Massachusetts in which it was invented by a group of artists in 1915. The design is carved into a woodblock and then watercolours are applied to small areas in many layers. As the colours have to be re-applied after each printing, the prints are unique. A limited number of prints are taken from a woodblock before it is retired.
Please allow an extra two weeks for delivery.
 Brodgar Fissure |  Dancing Stones |  Fields of Amber |
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