Forest pictures will go on display

A top nature photographer is looking forward to presenting a collection of forest portraits in Highland Perthshire.

Peter Cairns will be exhibiting his mysterious forest portraits in the John Muir wild space gallery in Pitlochry, depicting some of the last remaining ancient woodlands in Scotland.

The exhibition in the Station Road gallery, called“Northwoods”will show gently abstract images inspired by Cairns’s love for Scottish woodland, particularly the Great Wood of Caledon in the Scottish Highlands.

Peter said:“Today it has reduced to just a fragment of its former range - yet within the wildwood that remains, there is magic.

“This is a place in which red squirrels forage and wildcats hunt, a forest over which eagles and ospreys soar.

“These images depict how the remnants of the Great Wood make me feel, not only as a photographer, but as a lover of wild places.”

He continued:“Rather than focus on the on the wider view, I set out to capture the seasonal elemental mood of the forest through light, colour and texture.

“The vein-like patterns of a silver birch encrusted in hoar frost of a lone Scots pine silhouetted against a fiery sunrise - these are all elements within the forest, but it is their interconnectedness and that of all living organisms, which makes the forest complete.”

The Northwoods collection can now be enjoyed at the John Muir wild space gallery in Pitlochry until mid-April.