Welcome to Skye Seaglass

Visit Waternish is delighted to welcome a new craft business to our group. We wish Rosie every success with this venture and hope that she receives a lot of interest. Skye Seaglass is situated in Stein, next to Stein Inn.

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Skye Seaglass

During my childhood, growing up in Glendale, I loved to pick up stones, shells and Seaglass- to the point my parents had to put a limit on how much I was allowed to take home, especially when on holiday. It is something that has stuck with me throughout my life. Inevitably I ended up with bowls and jars full of seaglass. So when in 2010 I was trying to think of what to make for Christmas presents I decided to try making something out of my precious collection. I had a small piece of silver wire and a bag full of copper wire off cuts, mostly old electrical wire. After a couple of enjoyable days I had produced some passable jewellery and that is how Skye Seaglass started. I made a few pieces and along with some paintings and gift cards and took them along to the local craft sale. The proceeds for these sales I put into buying silver wire, then beads -as I sold more, the more wire I could buy and the more adventurous I could be with my designs.

The shore at Orbost.

I walk every day with my dogs on the shore, picking up stones( and of course seaglass) and peering into rock pools. I love the colours and textures of the shore, those little gleams of colour deep in the pools, the smoothness of the rounded pebbles caught in the rough black rock, the myriad of creatures from limpets with their concentric rings of wear to seahorses swaying languidly in the seaweed and of course the seaweeds from crimson through all the browns to gold catching the light – all provide inspiration for my jewellery.

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I also have a deep interest in nature in all its forms, I have spent a lot of my time encouraging diverse wildflower meadows on our Croft at Orbost and this is reflected in my work in the form of silver flowers and colourful beaded butterflies but more specifically in my artwork, the range of which always includes some kind of flower meadow.

Although the majority of my artwork revolves around the shore with its juxtaposition of the fluidity and movement of the water against the solidity of rock and hill. I find the transparency and reflectivity of the water an endless challenge. I could go on and on about the changing light, colours and moods of Skye but I doubt there is an artist on the island who doesn’t consider these a constant source of inspiration.

Rosie Morrison.

www.skyeseaglass.co.uk

Skye Seaglass