Fenceposts and markmaking

Angus Archeology

Belated blog post, it snowed! And with that snow I was inspired to make snowy paintings. I really love the graphic quality of the Angus farmland and hills in snow, sometimes when I’m walking in it I can imagine I’ve walked into one of my images! I was reading a few archaeological news stories as I worked on this painting and thought about integrating how archaeologists piece together the story of a pace from many fragmented clues sometimes. So I picked a few symbol-like things to pop in there; the sheep (everywhere) a sickle I found as a girl on the farm (forgotten tool or good luck offering?) and a cow bell (found in a field) Since archaeology is intimately connected with the land, and is my other passion, I really want to draw more on it in my work.