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Upper Gallery September - December 2025

Story | Land
Sarah Milteer

A series of landscape paintings that explore or interpret places that are settings for traditional stories.

 

Reading and hearing folk tales is a way of experiencing the landscape, connecting the past to the present. My process is that I read, absorb the story, research the place-name and then go to the place referenced in the tale and spend time there. I take photos, make notes and sketch, comparing my mental-imagery of the place evoked by the story with the actual place.  I return to the studio and paint the works. I ask you as the viewer to consider your own place in the landscape, and how it inspires you.​

Flowerdale Arboretum

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This exhibition contains a series of landscape paintings that are either named -suggesting a fantastic setting - or are associated with particular stories, which will accompany them. Some are paired with an illustration if the association is a complete story. The locations started with the Gairloch area as central before fanning out as north as Kildonan on the Scoraig Peninsula and as far south as Diabaig and Torridon. Kinlochewe is the most easterly.

 

I used texts and maps to research where to gather source information and sketches. I grew up primarily in Badachro, and was educated at Gairloch High School, then the Glasgow School of Art where I first investigated the relationship between places and the storytelling tradition in the West of Scotland. I currently live in Edinburgh with my family and work at the Edinburgh College of Art.

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Sarah Milteer

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Visit our Lower Gallery (no admission charge) to view:

Story | Land by Sarah Milteer 

 

Sept-October Opening Hours

Mondays - Saturdays, 10am - 5pm 

Nov-December Opening Hours

Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays 11am - 4pm

 

f you wish to purchase artwork, please use the contact details below.  We can accept payment at the Museum or are equally happy to invoice and take payment by bank transfer. At the end of the exhibition, the Museum will help to arrange delivery or collection of your artwork. When a cost is incurred, this is passed on to the buyer. Within Scotland, we usually manage to deploy our “informal” art delivery network and no charge​.

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While you're at the Museum, you might like to also view

Saturation by Lisa Fenton O'Brien

in our Lower Gallery. This exhibition also has no admission charge. 

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