Reach a wider and more diverse audience

Art presents a different way of looking at the environment and reaches out to a wider audience. It communicates on sub-conscious and emotional levels that other interpretation often does not achieve. This is important because if we want people to care about a place then the interpretation must touch them emotionally as well as develop their factual understanding.

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  • Excerpts from two poems by Norman MacCaig have been carved into stone slabs at Knockan. The chosen poems reinforce the sense of time as an element in the stories of the site, and introduce a sense of the landscape's grandeur and of humans' relative insignificance.
    Cost Band A.
  • A forest clearing on the Rhyming Trail at Beinn Eighe is the setting for a 'pine cone' in slate by Joe Smith. This much admired installation combines elemental wood and stone in one striking art form. It elegantly reinforces the trail theme of a living pinewood.
    Cost Band B.
"My works require no complicated or unfathomable justifications. They are elegant classical forms arrived at by a process of experimental failures and successes. Their essence and attraction is in their unique construction, and in their visual and physical texture."

Joe Smith