Culture
Scottish Nature Photography Awards: Winner Charles Everitt on Scotland’s botanical landscape
From delicate wildflowers to dramatic landscapes, this year’s Scottish Nature Photography Awards create timeless portraits of our picturesque wee nation. For this year’s winner Charles Everitt, Scotland’s botanical landscape provides the ultimate inspiration. His picture Lily of the Valley, taken in Edinburgh, placed first in the Scottish Botanical category and was crowned the winner of…
Read MoreBlademaker using laughing gas canisters and beach litter to make top quality eco friendly knives
As a former professional chef, Tim Westley knows how important having the right knife is. So it’s not surprising his hand-forged knives – created from highly unusual, recycled materials – are highly prized by some top chefs in the UK. Tim makes his incredible eco blades at his workshop in Dumfries and Galloway using steel…
Read MoreThe 10 most important Scottish artists you should know about
Ahead of Bonhams Scottish Art auction on 15 May in Edinburgh, Specialist and Head of Sale, May Matthews, introduces ten of the most important Scottish artists from the last 250 years. Henry Raeburn Perhaps Scotland’s most well-known painter, Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) had a tremendously successful career as a portrait painter in the late 18th…
Read MoreReview: The Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh
It was Coco Chanel who said ‘luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it’s not luxury.’ And I think it’s fair to say the purveyors of grandeur at Edinburgh’s famous The Caledonian Hotel have taken this motto to heart. An imposing block of red sandstone on Edinburgh’s premier Princes Street, The Caley, as it’s affectionately known, oozes…
Read MoreAmanda Hayler: ‘Art became a form of escapism from the real world after my cancer diagnosis’
Art has always been a part of Amanda Hayler’s life. She remembers loving to draw from a very young age, from cats and castles to trees and princesses. After high school she even considered training to become a medical illustrator. But it wasn’t until she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2012, aged 47,…
Read MoreThe Good Books, Marion Todd: ‘Wuthering Heights is entirely miserable, I just didn’t care what happened to the characters’
Marion Todd on being inspired to write crime fiction by Kate Atkinson, why she always recommends Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and her best three books of the year. The first book I remember reading: The Little Red Hen – a Ladybird book. I still have my dog-eared copy and it’s like an old friend.…
Read MoreScottish Field: Dive into our May issue to see what we have in store for you this month
Scottish Field’s May magazine is out now and here’s what we have in store for you… No place like home: Landscape photographer Andrew Burns doesn’t have to venture far off the beaten track from his home in Dornoch to capture Scotland’s beauty. Read the full interview here. Reverend Richard Coles: The former vicar and…
Read MoreScotland Through A Lens: Andrew Burns
Landscape photographer Andrew Burns doesn’t have to venture far off the beaten track from his home in Dornoch to capture Scotland’s beauty. I have been taking photographs for over 40 years. My mum and dad bought me and Olympus OM10 for my sixteenth birthday. It was one of the first cameras to offer an automatic…
Read MoreRoyal Highland Hoolie: Tide Lines, Trail West and Nathan Evans to perform event
Folk pop band Tide Lines has been announced as a headliner for this year’s Royal Highland Hoolie. The group has just released their latest single, Homeward Bound, and recently returned from a European tour to the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany. Trail West, who continue to rise in popularity from their modest roots as a four-piece…
Read MorePerth Museum: Stone of Destiny takes centre stage at new £27m attraction
More than 700 years since it left Scone, the Stone of Destiny has become the centrepiece of the new £27 million Perth Museum. The ancient symbol of Scotland’s monarchy was seized by King Edward I of England in the late 13th century and remained in England for 700 years. It was returned to Scotland in…
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