A Darkening

This film slowly examines and explores a landscape. This is a landscape at a point of transition - the transition between day and night, and between one year and the next. It was filmed around Dorlin in Moidart, NW Scotland, during brief periods of calm and stillness at dusk around otherwise stormy, wet weather. The images of the landscape are dark, damp, and held deep in the grip of winter. It is almost silent, other than the brief interjections of a sea eagle and a heron passing overhead. The film is shot on super 16mm digital format. Dur. 4'33"

a stone from Ben Nevis

A small pale grey pebble collected exactly one week earlier from the summit plateau of Ben Nevis, found in my pocket whilst walking in London, then placed (hidden) at the base of a tree next to the Albert Memorial.

below, the rocks plunged into darkness (documentation)

Some documentation of my current show at the Studio Pavilion, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow. The show continues until July 15th, 2018

review - below, the rocks plunged into darkness

Thanks to Frank McElhinney for writing this review on my current show.

https://writingonscottishphotography.blogspot.com/2018/06/exhibition-review-lesley-punton-below.html

Below, the rocks plunged into darkness

still from "a darkening" super 16mm digital film, 4'33"

Here's a link to my current exhibition at the studio pavilion at the house for an art lover.
https://www.houseforanartlover.co.uk/arts/exhibitions-projects/studio-pavilion-exhibiton

first light

the first light of 2018, Loch Moidart at Dorlin

sgurr

"Sgurr" - Lesley Punton, 2017, Silicon Carbide, 12x6cm aprox.

last light first light IV

Last light, Dec 31st 2017, wildlife hide, Ardtornish Estate

First light, Jan 1st 2017, wildlife hide, Ardtornish Estate

Humboldt’s distribution of plants in Equinoctial America, according to elevation above the level of the sea.

Thicket No. 1

Roni Horn - Thicket No. 1, 1989-90, Aluminium & Plastic

gully

Clachaig Gully, July 2016

the magic flute

The arrival of the Queen of the Night. Stage set by Karl Friedrich Schinkel for an 1815 production

back from the printer

an evening walk

the beginning of a walk up Dumgoyne, 4th June 2016

the end of a walk up Dumgoyne, 4th June 2016

coloured hills

Lesley Punton - Big dark rock peak - oil on board - 2016

Lesley Punton - Lucky hill - oil and silverpoint on board - 2016

Lesley Punton - Misty mount - oil on board - 2016

Lesley Punton - Hill of Brightness - silverpoint on gesso on board - 2016

Some new paintings in a larger series of works exploring the naming of the gaelic mountain landscape through colour. 

Much of the way landscape is named in Gaelic is highly descriptive, and colour crops up again and again. Hills such as Beinn Dearg Mor are conventionally translated as 'big red hill' - these rather lumpen translations don't do justice to the multiple and often contested possible translations of the Gaelic to English, and to the shifting sense of colour when in the hills. In attempting to translate these hills into a field of colour (or light), my title translations have partly been arrived at through conversation with Alec Finlay, so my gratitude and thanks are sent to him here.