American news channel CNN has chosen the Outer Hebrides as a top travel destination in 2019, in a fantastic list including New York, Egypt, Hawaii and the Grand Canyon!
An artwork in ink by Scottish artist Simon Fraser, overlaid with an archival antique white mount and simply framed in a narrow lime wood moulding with glass.
Please get in touch if you have artwork you want framed to the highest standard, whether it’s for exhibition, for your own walls or for giving as a gift.
A set of two screenprints of St Kilda scenes by Lewis artist Elaine Murray, overlaid with double thickness mountboard and framed in deep rebate limed wood moulding with glass.
I specialise in making frames to customers’ individual requirements: excellent art should have excellent presentation. Wherever possible, frame mouldings used are approved by the Forest Stewardship Council, which certifies woods sourced from responsibly-managed forests.
Please get in touch if you have artwork you want framed to the highest standard, whether it’s for exhibition, for your own walls or for giving as a gift.
By John MacLean, 03/11/18:
A new book on the sinking of the Iolaire has been launched at Faclan Book Festival in Stornoway.
The Darkest Dawn tells the story of all those on board the Iolaire and the shattering effect on the community after the sinking occurred on the morning of 1st January 1919, at the Beasts of Holm by the entrance to Stornoway harbour.
Author Malcolm Macdonald (pictured here on the right, with Roddy Murray, head of visual arts and literature at An Lanntair) worked on completion of the book for four years after the untimely death of co-author, local historian Donald John Macleod.
Congratulations to artist Eilidh Smith, whose artwork ‘Ready for a Ceilidh’ won the Daler Rowney Award in the artist category at this year’s exhibition at Nottinghamshire’s Patchings Art Centre.
I had the pleasure of framing this large artwork prior to its departure for exhibition: the painting was set into a deep rebate wood frame with a narrow spacer between the painting and the glass. The frame moulding was primed then painted with six coats of paint mixed exactly to complement the blue-grey tones in parts of the artwork.
I specialise in making frames to customers’ individual requirements. Whenever possible, frame mouldings used are approved by the Forest Stewardship Council, which certifies woods sourced from responsibly-managed forests.
Please get in touch if you have artwork you want framed to the highest standard, whether it’s for exhibition, for your own walls or for giving as a gift.
One of my photographs of the medieval chapel near Northton, Harris, has been used as the cover image on Finlay MacLeod’s book, The Chapels and Healings Wells of the Western Isles.
Another completed bespoke framing, this time of a fine study of nesting gannets on Boreray, St. Kilda by island artist Elaine Murray.
The painting was mounted behind archival quality antique white board in a white-painted/limewaxed wood frame.
I specialise in making frames to customers’ individual requirements: excellent art should have excellent presentation. Wherever possible, frame mouldings used are approved by the Forest Stewardship Council, which certifies woods sourced from responsibly-managed forests.
Please get in touch if you have artwork you want framed to the highest standard, whether it’s for your own walls or for giving as a gift.
John MacLean holds a large image library of photographs from all over the Outer Hebrides / Western Isles, across a wide range of subjects: portraits, people at work, landscape, local events, street views, beach scenes, etc.
Images are supplied optimised for use in print publications and digital media, and excellent discounts are available for multiple purchases.
Get in touch for all your Hebridean image needs!
A few of the photos documenting the start of the fitting-out of new offices for NFU Mutual at Cromwell Street Quay, Stornoway. Good to see long-established local businesses expanding into larger premises.
I will be returning at regular intervals to photograph the fitting-out until its completion.
By John MacLean, 30/10/2016
Scottish Opera recently visited the Isle of Lewis as part of a 17-date tour of the country, performing Donizetti’s comic opera L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love) to a very appreciative audience in An Lanntair’s arts centre in Stornoway.
I accompanied the cast and crew on a trip to the West Side of Lewis / Callanish Stones before their evening performance, and some of my images were used in an article in Opera Now magazine.
Click on the link below to read the full story.
Opera Now article (PDF file, 5.1 MB).