Road to the Isles
2021
‘Gloaming over the Isles’ | mixed media on board, 7inx29in 🔴
The following sections look at Zanna’s latest series Road to the Isles. The artist has worked across a wide range of media for this collection: creating works upon board, canvas, linen and paper, with oils, acrylics, beeswax and ink. A selection of these can be purchased directly online, others can be purchased by emailing the artist using the links below.
During 2022 selected works from this collection are on show in Call to the West
Works on Board, Linen & Canvas
‘Road to the Isles’ is a tune composed by Pipe Major John McLellan – part of a collection that appeared in a book entitled ‘Songs of the Hebrides’ (1917). The locations mentioned in the song have inspired me considerably since my very first visit to Skye in 2000 and my subsequent University jobs on the Isle of Harris sowed the seeds of an utter fascination with the varied landscape of the Isles: the Cuillin Hills (on Skye), Tummel and Loch Rannoch (both in Perthshire near where I now live), Lochaber (a district in the western Scottish Highlands), Shiel (a reference to Loch Shiel), Ailort, Moray, the Skerries and the Lews (a former name of the Isle of Lewis). Such a rich range of landscapes to explore, in 2019 when I agreed to have my third solo show with The Watermill Gallery I thought I’d be dotting over the Isles. Little did I know that Covid would scupper most of these plans so my rich source of material has been the memories of previous trips to these places and literally my paintings have become like ‘Songs to the Hebrides’. Luckily for many years between 2001 & 2008 I spent more than a few weeks each year travelling to these places, most especially Skye, Lewis, Harris and the area around Ailort. Latterly, I’ve been venturing to more Inner Isles like Mull, Tiree, Kerrera and Coll. The clear light of the West and expansive horizons continue to fill my visual mind and the urge to keep on painting spurs me on to keep delving deeper and find ever-lasting ways to extend my exploration of the West in all her glory.
— Zanna Wilson, May 2021
Works on Paper
Ben Roshven at Loch Ailort | ink on paper, 22inx33in 🔴
Monoprints
The first six works shown below are now at The Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol (8th September ongoing)
