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The National (Scotland)
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Nan Spowart

Landscape artist unearths Scottish Gaelic gem unheard for decades

Artist Rose Strang (left) and her 2021 oil on pine painting But Did I Dream That Roe, a commission for poet Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain

WHEN Scottish landscape artist Rose Strang began searching for music to inspire her paintings of Ardnamurchan, she didn’t expect to discover a rare Scottish Gaelic song that hadn’t been heard for decades.

Strang was captivated by the song she found online but had no idea what it meant until a friend translated the words and stunned the painter, revealing how well it matched her work for her upcoming Ardnamurchan exhibition.

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