In 2010 I took my Nomadic Studio, a converted luton box truck, up to the Scottish Highlands. At the Arisaig Hotel traditional music session I met fiddler Gabe McVarish.

I loved his story - The MacVarish family are from Arisaig in Lochaber. He was the first of his family to return from Northern California, since the HIghland Clearances, roughly between in 1750-1860. He certainly had his own style of playing, I bought his solo album, a culmination of fiddle styles and repertoire from every side of both the Atlantic and the Irish Sea, his love of the traditional music of the Celtic Diaspora shines throughout. He also plays with the band Daimh (which means Kinship in Gaelic).

This print is about the story and his returning to his ancestral homeland. It is a combination of monotype and drypoint etching on Hannemule etching paper, in an edition of only 4.

The work is glazed and framed with a simple white painted wooden band.

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