< back Araminta Campbell Atelier Scottish textile designer Araminta creates beautiful pieces at her Atelier in Duddingston. The team hand weave luxury tartan, tweed and alpaca products, and also offer a mill-woven range, working with rural artisan mills across Scotland. Araminta asked me to develop her main Atelier brand, for which I needed to create… Continue reading Araminta Campbell
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Botanical Garden, Edinburgh
illustration and design for Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Trust
Playing cards – birds and plants
Bird and plant illustrated playing cards I’ve had a plan to create a set of playing cards for years. Decades. My higher art design project was a set of cards on a musical theme. Obviously, they were never realised beyond the paper versions needed to get the higher, but the plan was rooted! In 2011… Continue reading Playing cards – birds and plants
Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum
illustration and design for Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Trust
Jan Tait and the Bear
< back Jan Tait and the Bear – chamber opera animation illustration I created the illustration for an animation for a chamber opera. Jan Tait and the Bear is a Shetlandic folk tale, set when the islands were part of Norway. Jan lived on Fetlar and announced he was going to pay his taxes in… Continue reading Jan Tait and the Bear
Scots Fiddle Festival
< back Scots Fiddle Festival illustration & design I’ve been responsible for the Scots Fiddle Festival look for a long time now! In the first few years, I created something new each time, but once I’d made the castle-fiddle design, it stuck, gradually establishing itself as the festival brand. The event happens over a weekend… Continue reading Scots Fiddle Festival
The Great Wave off North Berwick
Blackbird and sea buckthorn, Seacliff print by Helen WYllie
Forth Rail Bridge
Blackbird and sea buckthorn, Seacliff print by Helen WYllie
Sunset over Fidra print
Blackbird and sea buckthorn, Seacliff print by Helen WYllie
North Berwick belly bin
< back Seabird art for Sustaining North Berwick belly bin Sustaining North Berwick wanted to solve the environmental problem of the bins overflowing and birds being damaged by eating rubbish, so they raised funds to instal six big belly bins around town. They asked six artists to create designs for them, all with different seabird… Continue reading North Berwick belly bin