John Muir Trust : Creative Freedom

Tides and Sands of Time

By julie close

Illustrated Story/hand-made book - archival pigmented inks on acid-free matt and premium lustre paper.

h: 22 w: 15 d: 1 (cms).

Freedom For Wild Places. A place where nature has free expression. Where we observe, learn, and, with our imaginations, share that freedom. ‘Tides and Sands of Time’ is an illustrated story. My inspiration came from walking along the cliff tops, north of St Cyrus and spending time in Culbin Forest. I found the evidence of the sea reshaping the coastline, man’s involvement and nature taking back fascinating. During these walks, seeds of a story and images grew. This led to many visits and hundreds of photographs concluding with 3 images and a hand-crafted book. For 35 years, I worked as a medical photographer, where the accuracy of recording/illustrating a condition was paramount. The illustrative nature of medical photography has influenced my personal work, which I’m now pursuing, living the dream of capturing ideas. Inspired by my environment and current issues. My projects often require researching habitats, waiting months for seasonal changes and for plants to come into flower. I use multiple photographs to create a digital image, mixing textures, landscapes, and still life. The computer screen is like an empty stage where my work unfolds. It comes to life once printed. I hand print all my work for either hand-crafted books or 3D boxed framed images using archival pigmented inks on acid-free matt and premium lustre paper.

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Single track, Coigach by Gwennie Fraser

By Gwennie Fraser

Poem with accompanying photograph

h: 1 w: 1 d: 1 (cms).

Wild places are essential, not only for ecological systems and biodiversity, but also for our human sense of belonging and thriving in a rapidly more challenging world. We are entwined with nature, and the future of wild places. Our appreciation and care is the vital call to action of our time, if we are to protect nature’s freedom to thrive and evolve, and for all life on earth to flourish. My poem, “Single track, Coigach” describes the experience of returning along the long, single track road through the Coigach hills on a winter’s night, and the feeling of freedom and belonging as I recall names of the mountains, lochs and wildflowers that are deeply embedded in my memory, and which come alive again in the present, in each twist of the winding road.

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Single track, Coigach by Gwennie Fraser

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What will you miss?

By Tina Codling

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h: 1 w: 1 d: 1 (cms).

I rarely visit cities and urban spaces now but when I do, I notice how everyone seems to be mesmerised by a device of some kind, whether that is music blasting through Airpods or headphones, playing an electronic game, answering emails or scrolling through social media. Even when walking through the park they are chatting to someone locked inside their device, to an image on a screen. And this is now becoming normal in more rural areas and in the mountains. If you speak to someone as your paths cross or at the summit they often can’t hear you because they are plugged in to their device. Others do not want to interact because they are creating ‘content’ for their thousands of followers who may only ever see such beauty through their screens. This makes me think of what they are missing. For this piece I took some of the moments of awe and wonder I’ve witnessed or immersed myself in over the years and across the seasons and considered what it would be like to no longer experience those moments. That led to a call to action for everyone to claim their own freedom to experience wild places and in doing so help build a world where we can give those wild places the freedom to thrive. With us or without us.

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