My grandad's favourite joke
A tourist on holiday in the Scottish Highlands and Islands gets to their B&B (bed and breakfast). The farmer says "Do you mind taking your shoes off indoors?" The tourist says "No I don't but why?"
The farmer says " So you don't bring in the glaur."
The perplexed tourist asks "What is glaur?"
The farmer replies "Why, it's drookit stoor!"
Drookit stoor equals = wet dust
Glaur equals = mud
Discover Glaur Arts
A personal site
This is a personal site to share my prints and paintings, costume and fibre arts, creative thoughts and process.
I hope you will stay, have a look round and enjoy what you see.
My name is Steve, I'm in my late sixties and I've been drawing, painting and experimenting all my life. Originally from Scotland I now live 'South of the border' in Lancashire, a beautiful if wet county in England.
I am currently working on a series of mono-prints under the title 'Landmarks.' Over the millennia, humankind’s relationship with the land and nature has changed beyond recognition; in the impact that humans have had on the landscape and the world and how that in turn has rebounded on us; through pollution, climate change and social, political and economic elements.
As an artist my interest is in the hidden nature of that relationship and how it has changed. What we now often think of as a ‘natural’ landscape has in fact been plundered, de-forested, farmed, re-forested and sculpted through human intervention and industry for centuries. The memory of all this activity has often been lost in the passing of time and sometimes only the faintest traces remain on or just below the surface.
My current work explores the idea of these hidden layers and what happens when they are exposed either by erosion or archaeology. How is our understanding of the landscape and nature changed by the realisation of our historic intervention and interactions? Human pressures on the land for housing, food and recreation can only increase and land ownership remains symbolic of wealth and power.
The work also proposes a new and different way of viewing the land, looking down as we walk unaware over our history, rather than the elements of traditional landscape painting. In an increasingly Urban society I think we now have a better understanding of how loaded the word ‘Countryside’ actually is. What will we leave as a legacy for future generations to uncover?
Should you have any comments, questions or enquiries please feel free to send me an email (link below)
