Shambellie Walled Garden - Art Exhibition

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I will be exhibiting at Shambellie Walled Garden and here are all the details you need. Please save the date and I hope you can make it. I'm very much looking forward to what promises to be a wonderful evening in a beautiful setting, 

Laura xx  

Sheila Cameron at Shambellie Walled Garden

has pleasure in inviting you to the preview of

Art in the Garden

Friday 5^th September 6.30 to 8.30pm

The exhibition will include work by

Charlotte Long ~ Botanical illustrator

Philippa Sinclair ~ Paintings in Watercolour

Laura Hudson Mackay ~ Fine art photographer

Hugh McIntyre and more….

The exhibition will run on Saturday 6^th and Sunday 7^th Sept.

10.00 – 4.00

Refreshments

Shambellie Walled Garden, Beeswing Road, New Abbey, Dumfries, DG8 1AA

Nexus - The Journey

I look for the beautiful and the good in everything. I've never been one who finds it easy to express myself freely in words and so my camera has become the tool to help communicate my own thoughts and feelings. 

My work often takes me off into other worlds far away. In these out-of-the-ordinary places I find myself inspired by the magic of forests and enchanted places. I search for doorways between two worlds, nexus points which seem to almost suspend time, a moment of revelation, a flash of inspiration...

And dare you enter through these gates

To seek another world beyond?

And will you leave these life estates,

To dabble in the Lucid Bond?

But thus compelled to venture forth

Each step more certain, more secure,

Dare you push the iron girth

To enter into life more pure?

Only the strong in heart and mind

May enter through this nexus point

Thus move between two worlds combined 

And sweet release do then appoint.

Taken from 'The Journey' by Laura Hudson Mackay, poetry Hudson Mackay Collaboration

Daily Life in Essaouira

During our recent road trip from Scotland to Morocco in 'Herman' our camper van, we visited and stayed in some beautiful places, from Biarritz, La Rochelle, Cadiz, Seville, Rhonda, Montblanc, Montignac and Toubkal. My favourite place along the way, the one I long to visit again was Essaouira. 

We needed to escape the heat of Marrakech so set off on a long and straight road, passing goats which oddly stand in trees all day and eat Argan nuts...

Eventually we reached the coast, a much needed breeze and beautiful Essaouira...