21 - 22 November 2018 | Tristan Hoare, London ∙ 25 May - 30 June 2018 | Galleria del Cembalo, Rome
The west coast of Jura is an area of natural wilderness so remote it would satisfy even the strongest yearnings for freedom and space. Pretty much uninhabited by man - it is the least-populated area of Europe - there is no livestock grazing and very few buildings. The only buildings along the fifty miles of shorelines between Kinuachdracd in the north and Feolin Ferry in the south are the bothies at Glengarrisdale, Ruantallain and Cruib Lodge and the summer house at Glenbatrick Bay. It is the latter which I have been lucky enough to visit on and off the last twenty years. The pictures, taken over the last four, are a collection of my wanderings around Glenbatrick Bay and our regular family excursions to and from the island in various boats to fish or picnic, a kind of coming and going.
These abstract images are not meant to be an accurate portrayal but more a bundle of feelings and impressions - a series of sketches if you like, which hopefully, when they are seen together, give the reader a strong sense of the spirit and soul of this extraordinary and untouched landscape. To have Ken Cockburn involved in this project has been an ideal collaboration for me: the lyrical addition of his poetry hugely enhances one’s understanding of the place.
- Charles March
1. a' chiad sealladh
2. tàladh a' chladaich
3. creag a' ghrìbhein
4. trì corragan
5. an t-uisge air a' chnoc
6. Eileen nam binnen
7. an tràigh sgrìobach
8. cuairt fhada
10. fiaclan an Eileen
11. tràigh ghorm
12. faid tilgeil cloiche
13. slighe shàbhailte
15. gu math sean
16. trì mucan-mara
17. uisge Gàidhealach
18. creag nan ròn
19. earball wyrm
20. aighear a' choin
21. linne mholagan
22. togail nan tràighean
23. air an oir chreagach
24. creag bhliante
25. lòn uisge fuar
26. le sgaoileadh de chreagan
27. cladach na gaoithe
28. beinn a' chiaraidh
29. taigh samhraidh
30. uisgeachan ciùine
31. àite falamh
32. lorg-coise an diabhail
33. druim an dràgoin
34. sàmhchair Dhiùra
35. sealladh na h-iolaire
36. cas-bhruthach ghaothach
37. cladach na chadal
38. trì beanntan aig fois
39. slighe an lorgaire
40. cuairt leannain
41. boglach rangale
42. creag chum-chnuic
43. ionad Dhè
44. uisgeachan dòirte
45. solas a tuath
46. luath-mharcachd gainmhich
47. beinn phurpaidh
48. cnuic àrsaidh
49. eileanan air bhog
50. bidean na h-iolaire
51. àirdean gaothach
52. feur sguapte le gaoth
53. uisgeachan Bhatrick
54. seada Uilleim
55. cumaidhean sa ghainmhich
56. druim uaine
57. gleann clachach
58. an sealladh mu dheireadh
59. sealladh os ìosal
60. an anail mu dheireadh