HIGHLAND ARTS
What, you may ask, has Highland Heritage got to do with wind and landscape. The answer is that my culture is greatly influenced by the Nature of highland landscapes – notably my home turf in the famous Trossachs which has long been been one of Europe’s most celebrated landscapes. For example, check out the historical, literature and art of the ‘Greats’ who used the Trossachs a the setting for their famous works..
 Rob Roy MacGregor, Sir Walter Scott, Ruskin, John Manley Hopkins, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Queen Victoria, Tobias Smollet, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alexander Naysmyth, Alfred Breanski, John Ruskin, Jules Verne, Maj., Gen. James Wolfe, Dr. Archibald Cameron. Not bad innings for a typical, sparsely populated highland landscape. My Rob Roy carving using Glen Arklet as the landscape setting is an example of my own small cultural contribution to the heritage of this magnificent landscape. 
In addition to the culture of the Scottish Highlands, I have also immersed myself in t he cultures of the equally beautiful and very different highland landscapes of Iceland and Newfoundland. So I thought I’d share a little of Highland Heritage with you – in to the addition to cultural aspects inherent is some of the other sections of the website. The best example of landscape art with strong history message are the Gunnarsholt Carvings and also Strathard Landscapes in Library folders.
There's a few samples of my drawings which I did for my books and few surviving examples of my painting such as the Boreal Sunset and Bell Island.
When I turned 60 years old, I started learning to play a vintage set Great Highland Bagpipe (R.G. LAwrie c1915) - the ultimate instrument for majestic landscapes
and Scottish Small Pipes (made of Lignum vitea by Hamish Moore of Dunkeld) of which you can hear me play a few tunes recorded through the computer microphone. Being an entirely self-taught piper, I have a long way to go to be a reasonably accomplished player. So be patient!
Slainte
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