The landscape surrounding Edywn Collins’s Clashnarrow Studio is a winter wonderland. The field sloping down to the road, visible through eyeline-flooding picture windows, is covered in snow, a crisp, sparkling, white blanket reflecting the pure blue brilliance of the January sky.
Beyond the road, the northern edges of the small, east coast town of Helmsdale, a 100-minute drive north of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands and 51 miles south of John O’Groats, the northernmost tip of mainland Britain. And beyond the town’s thin, built-up strip, the North Sea: another kind of sparkler on this sunny day, its horizon marked by the whirring sentries of the Moray windfarms, their turbines turning and glinting 14 miles offshore.
