function photo(i,c,m,q,d,j,h,o,p,a,l,f,k,b,r,n,g,e){this.id=i;this.galleries_id=c;this.photo_ref=m;this.section_code=q;this.src=d;this.width=j;this.height=h;this.caption=o;this.home=p;this.gallery=a;this.description=l;this.takendate=f;this.photographer=k;this.location=b;this.item_price=r;this.purchase_instruction=n;this.payment_groups_id=g;this.server_id=e;this.src=getServerPath(this.server_id)+"/"+this.src}function gallery(e,c,d,b,a){this.id=e;this.featured_images=c;this.title=d;this.section_code=b;this.photoIDs=a}var backgrounds=new Object();backgrounds[5773128]=new photo(5773128,"149785","","gallery","bella-belissima.gif",467,600,"Bella belissima",0,0,"Digital hybrid print","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416391]=new photo(4416391,"258706","","gallery","oak.jpg",500,357,"Oak",0,0,"Indian ink resist on tissutex abaca fibre paper<br>\r\nUnique<br>\r\n60 x 90cm<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe ancient proto-Indo European word ‘dorw’, meaning ‘oak’, was the precursor of many related words used today in languages as diverse as Gaelic and Sanskrit with meanings reflecting the enduring and fixed character of the tree.  This image of an oak investigates some of these relationships.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe technique used to create this image involves creating a resist by using thick gouache paint and then overworking with Indian ink.  The whole is then washed thoroughly, leaving only the ink.  The effect is similar to a woodcut.  This is usually only possible on very heavyweight paper because of the washing process, but the lightweight tissutex paper has an amazing wet strength that allows the same treatment.  I liked the idea of creating an image of something massive and enduring on such delicate paper.  ","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416126]=new photo(4416126,"258706","","gallery","clear-felling.jpg",301,600,"Clear felling, West Shinness",0,0,"Linocut<br>\r\nLimited edition of five<br>\r\n<br>\r\nPassing this site of clear felling, I was struck by the juxtaposition of the skeletal pine, which has somehow evaded the chainsaw, and the pylon in the distance.  Over the scene of tangled roots and fallen tree remnants, crows circle, as though above a battlefield.","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[1505147]=new photo(1505147,"258706","","gallery","dog-kennel.jpg",398,600,"Dog kennel, Culgower Wood",1,1,"Drypoint intaglio print<br>\r\n<br>\r\nOnce home to Jock the pointer and his successors, the old dog kennel latterly became a henhouse before its gradual surrender into the embrace of the wood in which it stands.","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416390]=new photo(4416390,"258706","","gallery","major-oak.jpg",500,395,"Major Oak and three birches",0,0,"Cardcut<br>\r\nLimited edition of five<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe Major Oak is legendary in Nottinghamshire as both the larder and hideout of the outlaw Robin Hood.  The tree is in fact estimated to be 800 years old, and was voted Britain’s favourite tree in 2002.  Here its massive ancient bulk is juxtaposed with three graceful birches.  ","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[3027782]=new photo(3027782,"258706","","gallery","dark-energy_2.jpg",346,600,"Dark energy",1,1,"27.5 x 48.5cm<br>\r\nWoodcut on mulberry paper.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDuring the making of this image, inspired by Scots pines near Dornoch quarry,  I discovered John Ruskin's quote from his book 'The Art of Travel' regarding pine trees: he considered them as 'all comfortless ... yet with such iron will' and with a 'dark energy of delicate life and monotony of enchanted pride'.  <br>\r\n<br>\r\n","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4415963]=new photo(4415963,"258706","","gallery","clootie-well-munlochy.jpg",301,600,"Tapestried about with rags",0,0,"Mixed media drawing on paper stretched over MDF<br>\r\n2' x 4'<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis drawing of the Clootie Well, Munlochy, was selected to be shown at the first Nairn Open Art Shown earlier this year.  The title is a quote from the 18th century traveller and writer Thomas Pennant who described the trees at the well as 'tapestried about with rags'.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe Clootie Well is a site of disputed antiquity which some believe has healing powers; by dipping a cloth or piece of clothing from the sick person into the spring and then tying it among the trees, a cure could be effected as the cloth rotted away.  ","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[1972585]=new photo(1972585,"258706","","gallery","hazel.jpg",500,500,"Coll",1,1,"Mixed media drawing, 91.5 x 91.5cm.  Marker pen, drawing ink, oil pastels, acrylic and powdered graphite on paper stretched over board.  <br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis image begins to explore the idea of symmetry.  At first glance it is simply an image of a hazel copse; on looking closer it is clear that certain parts of the image are reflected.  Faces begin to peer out of the tree at the viewer; these faces (often demonic) emerge spontaneously and unbidden and come into existence somewhere between the surface of the drawing and the individual viewer's mind, shifting and changing according to the light, the point of viewing, etc.  <br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe name 'Coll' is Old Gaelic for the hazel, a tree that signifies wisdom and features in a number of well-known legends - and yet is still considered unlucky by many in the Highlands.","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4435594]=new photo(4435594,"258706","","gallery","clipsham.jpg",500,500,"Clipsham Yew Avenue",0,0,"Mixed media drawing on paper stretched over MDF.<br>\r\n30 x 30cm<br>\r\n<br>\r\nOnce the formal carriage drive to Clipsham Hall – now no longer standing – the topiary Yew Avenue consists of 150 trees most of which are 200 years old.  Clipping, begun in 1870 by the Clipsham Estate’s head forester, is still carried out each year by the Forestry Commission.","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4435601]=new photo(4435601,"258706","","gallery","hermitage.jpg",500,500,"The Hermitage",0,0,"Mixed media drawing on paper stretched over MDF.<br>\r\n45 x 45cm<br>\r\n<br>\r\nOne of the earliest Highland tourist attractions, The Hermitage is a picturesque ‘wild tree garden’, landscaped since the 18th century by the Dukes of Atholl.  Home to one of the tallest trees in Britain – a Douglas Fir – it remains one of the most popular beauty spots in Perthshire and is now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland.  ","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4435604]=new photo(4435604,"258706","","gallery","rhododendron.jpg",500,500,"Rhododendron<br>\r\nInverewe Gardens, Wester Ross",0,0,"Mixed media drawing on paper stretched over MDF.<br>\r\n45 x 45cm<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe national flower of Nepal and related to our own native heather, the rhododendron was introduced to the UK by the Victorians where it now threatens many native species and habitats. However it does form an undeniably spectacular display; Inverewe Gardens (NTS) houses the national collection of the winter-flowering rhododendron barbatum, characterised by its blood-red trunk.","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416136]=new photo(4416136,"258706","","gallery","elm.jpg",500,500,"Gaelic tree alphabet<br>\r\na: ailm: elm",0,0,"Hybrid digital print (ink resist + digital)<br>\r\nLimited edition of five<br>\r\n21 x 21cm<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe Gaelic tree alphabet was adopted in Scotland some 1500 years ago.  The alphabet was represented by a script known as Ogham, each of the 18 letters corresponding to a different tree.  This and the other images in the series illustrate some of the trees from the alphabet.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIt is anticipated that this and its companion pieces will form the basis of an artist's book on the Gaelic tree alphabet in due course.  ","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416141]=new photo(4416141,"258706","","gallery","hawthorn.jpg",500,500,"Gaelic tree alphabet<br>\r\nh: uath: hawthorn",0,0,"Hybrid digital print (ink resist + digital)<br>\r\nLimited edition of five<br>\r\n21 x 21cm<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe Gaelic tree alphabet was adopted in Scotland some 1500 years ago.  The alphabet was represented by a script known as Ogham, each of the 18 letters corresponding to a different tree.  This and the other images in the series illustrate some of the trees from the alphabet.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIt is anticipated that this and its companion pieces will form the basis of an artist's book on the Gaelic tree alphabet in due course.  ","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416154]=new photo(4416154,"258706","","gallery","ivy.jpg",500,500,"Gaelic tree alphabet<br>\r\ng: gort: ivy",0,0,"Hybrid digital print (monoprint + digital)<br>\r\nLimited edition of five<br>\r\n21 x 21cm<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe Gaelic tree alphabet was adopted in Scotland some 1500 years ago.  The alphabet was represented by a script known as Ogham, each of the 18 letters corresponding to a different tree.  This and the other images in the series illustrate some of the trees from the alphabet.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIt is anticipated that this and its companion pieces will form the basis of an artist's book on the Gaelic tree alphabet in due course.  ","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416438]=new photo(4416438,"258706","","gallery","rowan1.jpg",500,500,"Gaelic tree alphabet<br>\r\nl: luis: rowan",0,0,"Hybrid digital print (ink resist + digital)<br>\r\nLimited edition of five<br>\r\n21 x 21cm<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe Gaelic tree alphabet was adopted in Scotland some 1500 years ago.  The alphabet was represented by a script known as Ogham, each of the 18 letters corresponding to a different tree.  This and the other images in the series illustrate some of the trees from the alphabet.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIt is anticipated that this and its companion pieces will form the basis of an artist's book on the Gaelic tree alphabet in due course.  ","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416443]=new photo(4416443,"258706","","gallery","winter-trees-big-burn.jpg",387,600,"Winter trees, Big Burn",0,0,'Hybrid digital print (drypoint + digital)<br>\r\nLimited edition of five<br>\r\n16 x 24"',"","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416104]=new photo(4416104,"258706","","gallery","caledonian-pine.jpg",300,600,"Caledonian pine, Glen Affric",0,0,"Hybrid digital print (ink resist + digital)<br>\r\nLimited edition of five<br>\r\n<br>\r\nGlen Affric, often called ‘the most beautiful glen in Scotland’, is home to remnants of the ancient Caledonian pine forest that once covered much of the Highlands.  This tree clings to a giant boulder with claw-like roots.","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416128]=new photo(4416128,"258706","","gallery","collocation.jpg",331,600,"Collocation",0,0,"Hybrid digital print (monoprint + digital)<br>\r\nLimited edition of five<br>\r\n<br>\r\nCollocation extraction is a tool used by linguists to investigate relationships between words.  The collocates of the word ‘tree’ were researched and some of them are demonstrated here encircling a birch in Glen Loth, Sutherland.  <br>\r\n<br>\r\nCollocates can reveal how or why the way we 'feel' about a certain word is surprisingly nuanced.  For example, a seemingly neutral word, such as 'cat', might be shown to be mostly co-located with the adjective 'black', thus giving the word a somewhat sinister aspect, even when it occurs alone.  The collocates of 'tree' included the benign (eg 'Christmas'), the neutral (eg 'deciduous') and the sinister (eg 'hanged').  I printed a selection of the words in a seven-metre long 'ribbon' which I used to wrap the tree, wondering whether the words that would be readable would give a particular 'feel' to the completed image.","","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416388]=new photo(4416388,"258706","","gallery","jims-whin-bush.jpg",436,600,"Jim's whin bush",0,0,'Hybrid digital print (monoprint + digital)<br>\r\nUnique<br>\r\n16 x 22"<br>\r\n<br>\r\nFriend and neighbour Jim discovered this whin bush determinedly growing out of a fence post.',"","","","","","",1);backgrounds[4416138]=new photo(4416138,"258706","","gallery","full-circle.jpg",500,359,"Full circle",0,0,"Altered book in glass case<br>\r\nUnique<br>\r\n<br>\r\n‘My book is constructed from paper made of wood pulp derived from trees which grow from my book …’","","","","","","",1);