New Barn

July 18th 2013
I remember during my childhood back in the late 50’s passing the seemingly deserted village of Auchindrain and later as it and the surrounding rolling hills disappeared beneath the onward march of forestry so different from the Gaelic Achadh an Droighinn or field of the Blackthorn Tree. On a beautiful spring day during my journey northward to the Isle of Lewis and calling on friends in Campbelto ... read more

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Tom Hickman

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I'm a journeyman artist living in Brittany and wandering mainy in the west coast of Scotland and south west corner of Australia. I was raised on the Mull of Kintyre and also have a small house on the Island of Lewis. I never take the direct route preferring to search out the remote coastal wilderness. In Australia my oldest friends lends me his Landrover and I disappear for weeks at a time. I alway travel alone accompanied only by my sketch pad and paints, never sticking to recognised paths I must always be aware of my limits whether climbing a coastal cliff or bushbashing my way to an inacces... full info

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