CRUISING LOGS
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As well as the usual sailing and safety gear, Christine Callum Mcinally always ensures that she never goes cruising without her easel and paints.
The artist regularly sails the west coast of Scotland, as well as further afield, in her Sweden Yachts 37, Haersa, returning again and again to paint the ‘amazing vistas’.
‘Sailing is a real elemental experience: wild, windy, wet or baking hot. The exposure to the expanse of the sea lifts the spirit. Where land, sea and sky connect, beautiful shapes of coast reveal themselves. It’s all so inspiring! I want to express in my painting how I feel about this remote and beautiful world which not everyone is lucky enough to be part of,’ she told YM.
Christine, who sails out of her home on the Black Isle peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, studied Illustration and printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee before going on to teach. The full-time painter said some of her favourite subjects to paint include ‘beautiful yachts, quirky little harbours, islands, rocky anchorages and wonderful wild flowers picked while ashore’. More of Christine’s painting can be seen at: www.christinecallummcinally.com.