Counterbalance scientific / analytical approaches to the environment

Environmental art provides a different dimension to projects. Most of what we have to tell is scientific in nature and it helps to be able to present interpretation with a more cultural bias. Most of the trail art works at Knockan and Beinn Eighe have direct links to the stories being told on site — they are intended to remind the public of ideas they have already come across in the conventional interpretation.

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• Alongside the Picnic Trail at Beinn Eighe are welcoming tables, benches and chairs by Susheila Jamieson. These feature carvings of pine marten, crossbill, newt and other animals appropriate to the woodland setting and the theme of the trail.
  Cost Band E.

• At Knockan, Susheila Jamieson carved this image into sandstone to represent the artist's impression of a pipe worm. These organisms lived over 500 million years ago and are responsible for the patterns found in one of the Knockan rock types.
  Cost Band B.