Text on back of Greeting Cards and Notelets,
and enclosed
with Print
(Cards & Notelets are blank inside)
Prints are individually signed and numbered out of a Limited Edition of 500. They are available in the following three sizes:
Size if Mounted
(These are standard frame sizes)
A5 and A4 prints are made on Epson Matt Heavyweight Photo Paper.
A3 prints are made on Hahnemuhle Torchon 285gsm Fineart Paper, which is excellent but expensive. All prints are produced with high quality genuine Epson inks and should be lightfast for over 100 years, according to Epson’s tests and calculations. Please keep prints out of direct sunlight, if possible, and mounted behind glass to ensure their longevity.
Balnakiel Bay
Painting No. 46
The 1 ¼ miles of clean white sand of Balnakiel Beach look west across the Kyle of Durness to the Parph Peninsula and Cape Wrath. Behind the beach rises a maze of high dunes that fade into the close-cropped, puffin-tunneled turf and 300 foot high, Moine Thrust cliffs of Faraid Head. On limestone bedrock at the near end of the beach stands the ruins of a 1619 church. Here are the graves of the Gaelic poet, Rob Donn, and the highwayman and murderer, Donald Macmurchow. An earlier church on this same site is thought to date from St. Maelrubha in 720AD. Also buried here are the victims of the Canton, a 3 masted barque wrecked on Faraid Head in 1849. A Viking grave was uncovered recently near the dunes. The big house opposite the church was begun in 1720 for the Lords of Reay, replacing an earlier summer-house for the Bishops of Caithness. To walk along the beach to Faraid Head is a delectable experience of space and time - truly a foretaste of heaven.
