01 · Portraits
On the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, where the road itself feels like part of the experience, a former farm building has been transformed into a contemporary gallery of rare clarity and character. At Resipole Studios, art is encountered as a quieter act of attention: shaped by landscape, architecture and the long journey that leads you there.
02 · Portraits
In Argyll, reaching an artist's studio is already part of the work. Rory Gibson paints what he sees, travelling across islands by bicycle, choosing days of sun, finishing a canvas before the light shifts. His practice exists in the tension between the long time of the journey and the immediacy of the gesture.
03 · Portraits
Not all the studios we visited in Argyll were artist studios. Some were houses, some were kitchens and some were pubs. Melfort House is all of these things combined. In this beautiful house on the shores of Loch Melfort, Matthew Anderson serves breakfast, plays the guitar in the pub across the road, and sends you to a tiny island for an evening of music you would never have found alone. For him, hospitality is a creative practice. The landscape is the calm that holds it all together.
04 · Portraits
In her studio on the family farm, surrounded by sheep and sea, Mogs Mellor paints what catches her eye: oystercatchers, boats, a sprat on blue plastic. She calls her best work "happy accidents." What moves her most is when a stranger walks in and says: I love this.