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Living Rocks

A series of six limited edition aquatint etchings.

A limited edition of aqua-tint etchings inspired by the exposed rocks of the Western Highlands of Scotland. The area in which the artist lives is a treasure trove of beautiful rock formations exposed to view by the sea or the weather. Largely gneiss, the rock is sandstone that, full of various minerals, has been under enormous pressure, heated and cooled by turn, twisted and upended by thousands of years of geological turmoil and at last scraped and pushed around by ice, worn and ground down by weather. The results are wonderful convolutions of pattern and colour, shape and line, out of which, over the aeons, plants, animals and finally man has found life.


Ferns     £32.00
Red stone, coloured by iron, curved by ancient heat and pressure, forms a cliff of rock fissured by time and movement, with ferns growing in even the darkest niches.

Grasses     £32.00
Horizontal layers of gleaming grey-white rock interspersed with crystals of quartz shine in the sunshine, thick tufts of grass growing at its feet.



Heather     £32.00
Vertical columns of grey -green rock form a miniature cliff perhaps twenty feet high topped by purple heather.

Reeds     £32.00
Blue-grey rock moulded at the waters edge by rain and wind, sports miniature lochans by which reeds spring in every crevice.


Sea Pinks     £32.00
Marbled lines of red buff yellow grey twist and turn on a sea flattened rock with tiny cushions of sea pinks dotting the surface.

Silverweed     £32.00
Smoothed expanses of rock , cracked across by thin fault lines and patterned by white lichen have the fronds of silver weed creeping over its unforgiving surface searching for a root hold.


The Living Rocks Limited Edition series of aqua-tint etchings celebrates the exposed rocks of the Western Highlands. There are six images in the series, image size ca. 15 cms x 20 cms (ca. 6" x 8").

Each etching is sold mounted using an acid-free white mount card.

A Limited Edition etching costs £32.00 (thirty two pounds sterling) including shipping.

Jean will be happy to give you further information on her wide range of etchings,
watercolours and fine oil paintings - contact her directly.

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jean@tscart.co.uk

The Square Cottage, Roshven, Lochailort, Scotland, PH38 4NB
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