The Curve: Loch Calavie East Beach

This print depicts the eastern shoreline of Loch Calavie, where the beach forms a continuous arc along the water’s edge.

Based on drawings made on location during the Cape Wrath Trail in 2024, the work foregrounds curvature as a compositional device. The shoreline operates as a structuring line, guiding the viewer’s the eye through the space towards the hills in the background.

This print forms part of the 'Landforms' collection, informed by landscapes encountered during long-distance walks across Scotland. Many works were sketched directly on site and aim to convey the expansive, sweeping character of open mountain environments—their textured, topographic intricacies, broken and ragged terrain, undulating forms, the vast, tumultuous skies and the brightness of water bodies.

The print is greyscale, with tonal variations and surface texture generated through the collagraph process, while drypoint in black ink introduces a hatched, drawn overlay. Variable addition of 5 (variations in intaglio inking and paper choice). Number in edition: 4/5

Intaglio (drypoing/ collagraph) / ink on Hahnemühle 300gsm paper (colour - natural), 34.8 x 34.5 cm image / 40.0 x 38.0 cm paper