Art, Nature, Storytelling
The future home of artist Sam Gare
“North Harris Studio will be a space dedicated to the cross over between art and science, with the aim of sharing the narratives of Scotland's unique Natural Heritage, and the stories of those who call it home.”
— Sam Gare
The Story…
I am relocating my life and practice to the Isle of Harris, after 10 years of it becoming my second home, and over 17 years of living in London. Currently a landscape artist exploring our connection to the land I am now activity developing my practice so that my work with the natural world meaningfully contributes to personal and public learning, and citizen science.
I’ve gained significant inspiration from naturalists, their collecting and recording methodologies and how a modern public still learns from specimens, archives, and artwork. I have a strong desire to educate myself and share with others the important features and environmental changes around me at my developing practice in Scotland. I aspire for all my projects to be participatory, facilitate learning in the field, to collaborate with science, to explore local culture and knowledge and share the wonders and challenges facing local fauna and flora.
The Work…
North Harris Studio Build - COMING SOON
The build of the Studio is due to commence summer 2024
Project 1 : Keening: The song of the stranding
Work responding to a mass stranding | 16th July 2023 | North Tolsta, Isle of Lewis
The Places We Go To Feel Small
Landscape and mountain paintings
Collaborations…
PODCAST - Keening: The song before the strandings
Aoife Glass & Francesca Turauskis - COMING SOON