The above pictured piece 'Ramshorn No. 90' is cast from a ramshorn found in Glen Finglas and is in silver birch paper, hazel paper and also soft rush paper gathered from the Glen.
Charmian Pollok has been fascinated with the 2000 year art of papermaking since her first experiments with the medium at Glasgow School of Art. Her newest work at the An Tobar gallery, Tobermory, focuses mainly on a series of close explorations of two sites in Central Scotland, Glen Finglas and Ravenscraig: the one containing an ancient stretch of woodland, now owned by the Woodland Trust, the other a site of more recent industrial archaeology. Undertaking a series of carefully plotted journeys across her chosen terrain, she gathers plant and manmade materials as she goes.
This scavenged material forms the basis of the paper pulps she uses to create her artworks which can also incorporate large artefacts such as the old iron ring in the work 'Boundary'.
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