Gorm is uaine (2017)
acrylic on acrylic
An exploration into colour - and, more specifically, hue, saturation and shininess - inspired by the writings of Professor Meg bateman of Sabhal Mor Ostaig on Skye.
"A Gaelic way of seeing" presented by Professor Bateman at the Jon Schueler symposium at Sabhal Mor Ostaig in 2016, looked at historical Gaelic colour terms and concluded that, in Gaelic, "colour did not have a fixed, objective value but was mutable, part of a process, defined in relative terms by other colours in the domain and moving back and forth along the scales of hue, saturation and shininess ... if we can learn to see the connections between differently-hued, but similarly reflective and saturated colour-terms across domains, we are beginning to see through a Gaelic lens."
