Another interesting piece of British cultural and artistic history is this rather wonderful painting by JMW Turner – which I think now hangs in Plymouth Art Gallery. Believe it or not we have seen many wonderful rainbows over the castle – luckily for you I have not yet been driven to paint what IContinue reading “Turner and Loch Awe”
Monthly Archives: August 2017
A poetic history – Wordsworth on Kilchurn
With thanks to a recent and very welcome guest (Rachel), we have belatedly discovered that the great poet (and poet laureate 1843-50) William Wordsworth wrote a fabulous poem about Kilchurn Castle which is reproduced below: ADDRESS TO KILCHURN CASTLE, UPON LOCH AWE CHILD of loud-throated War! the mountain Stream Roars in thy hearing; but thyContinue reading “A poetic history – Wordsworth on Kilchurn”