Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Solar farm’s success is the power of Scotland
One of Scotland’s largest solar farms is on track to produce its highest amount of green energy in a year – helped along by a record month in May. Mackie’s of Scotland’s 7000 panel solar farm, based on the Aberdeenshire family farm, helps the firm produce its famous ice cream and chocolate while creating enough…
Read MoreThey are elevating whisky into a genuine art form
Eight leading contemporary artists from around the globe will descend on a Scots distillery this summer. They will participate in the Glenfiddich Distillery’s International Artists in Residence programme. Hosted at the Dufftown home of world-famous single malt, the initiative is now in its 17th year and is regarded as one of the top arts residencies…
Read MoreNew gin release should be up to par
Fans of golf and gin are on course to welcome a new spirit of the summer. Eden Mill distillery in St Andrews has launched a gin inspired by the home of golf. Golf Gin went on sale at noon today (Friday, 8 June) at the Eden Mill shop in St Andrews and online, priced at…
Read MoreThere’s much a-brew as new venture launches
A family story that began three decades ago in one of Perthshire and Britain’s most remote moorland wildernesses is about to begin a fresh chapter in Pitlochry. Clare Pinchbeck and her five brothers and sisters first learned the secret of Scots’ appreciation of tea when their mother Eunice McLellan brokered a deal with railway factors…
Read MoreScientific search of Loch Ness getting underway
A bid to find Nessie’s neighbours is underway, with a new investigation to uncover anything unusual in Loch Ness. The mission to identify what lives in the UK’s biggest by volume freshwater loch is being led by the Super Natural History team – a global group of scientists – and has been hailed by VisitScotland…
Read MoreThere’s plenty to sea at this new exhibition
A celebration of the seas is taking place with the opening of a new art exhibition at the Scottish Maritime Museum. This show marks Scotland’s coastline at work, life and play. The new exhibition, which is now on show at the Scottish Maritime Museum on the Harbourside in Irvine, is the first full showing for…
Read MoreModern art is all set to go under the hammer
Two works by a 20th century Scots artist are to go under the hammer in London next month. William Scott was among the most internationally celebrated British painters of the 20th century, having been born in Greenock in 1913. Born the son of a sign-painter and one of 11 children, the ideas of austerity from…
Read MoreMaritime art exhibition prepares to open its doors
A new new national art collection is coming to the Scottish Maritime Museum later this week. Maritime Perspectives: Collecting Art of a Seafaring Nation will run at the Scottish Maritime Museum on the Harbourside in Irvine, North Ayrshire, from Friday, June 1, until Sunday, 21 October, featuring works by artists such as FCB Cadell, Ian…
Read MoreFirst Scottish show for influential 70s designer
Renowned artist and textile guru, Maria Cayden is coming to Scotland for the first time. She will display her fashion exhibition, entitled Dressing up Drum, which will be staged at Drum Castle in Aberdeenshire. The fashion extravaganza will feature over 30 items of clothing from Clayden’s international collections as well as showcasing the artist’s textile…
Read MoreArtistic tribute to the workforce of former creamery
Workers affected by the closure of a Victorian creamery in the south of Scotland are being honoured in a new art project. Generations had worked at the Bladnoch Creamery, but when it closed, it caused economic disaster the small town. The Bladnoch Altarpiece, which has been created for this weekend’s Spring Fling open studios event…
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