Eigg Series No. No 50; A view of Eigg from the ferry, with sunlight sparkling on the sea. Well, this has been such an enjoyable project β mostly the daily discipline of painting, and the feedback that follows, thank you! Sincere thanks to readers, also the following Eigg people, buyers and social media sharers. Camille Dressler β Eigg Island History. I tend to think that perfume, and the sense of smell in general, have been given something of a back seat in terms of the human senses.
Yet, think of those who after receiving cancer treatment may lose their sense of smell β with no knowledge of whether or not it will return. This is what happened to a friend of mine Calum, who runs the printing company Giclee UK , who make art prints from original paintings. He described how overwhelmingly sad he felt at the loss of smell following cancer treatment some years ago, and the sense of joy when many months later on opening a bottle of Shiraz wine, it all came flooding back.
It gave him a new appreciation of scent, and on discovering that his favourite lime-scented soap from Penhaligons had been discontinued, he decided to concoct something similar himself, and thus an amateur perfume-maker was born!
So in collaboration with Calum, the plan is to create a new perfume based on the the scent of the Oak woods of Ariundle on the West Coast of Scotland. And as it happens, my two favourite Scottish landscape painters are female; Joan Eardley and Kate Downie. Eardley was born in Essex to a Scottish mother and English father then later, in , moved to Glasgow and enrolled at Glasgow School of Art. Terrible news, but I have no doubt that restoration of this beautiful Rennie MacIntosh-designed building will be meticulous.
She eventually set up a studio in Catterline near Aberdeen and focused on landscape painting while there. Although highly acclaimed in the art world, she perhaps never gained the full recognition she deserved due to her untimely death at the age of Kate Downie was born of British parents in America, but moved to Aberdeen at the age of 7.
