Kathy Browning
Scotland: Fairy Pools 2

I spent 14 days of intensive photographic research taking 10 000 photographs while
travelling around the coast of Scotland. This includes the incredible architecture in ancient
cities; amazing, magical landscapes of heather shrouded moorlands, expansive glens with grass
covered hills and lowlands, and black and red mountains; and magnificent castles. Scotland is a
part of my cultural heritage. Fairy Pools 2 is a part of a photographic series. It is a merging of my
artistic and academic skills as a visual arts researcher. It is similar to grounded theory (Glaser &
Strauss, 1967) used for my academic research wherein I let Scotland tell me what photographs
needed to be taken and my photographic eye knew when to take the photograph from my
years of experience as a photographer.

Each of the photographs tells a visual story. As I continuously edited my photographs for
months while making files in folders, I asked myself: What was my experience of Scotland? How
can I represent this experience so that it has the feeling of what each inspiring photograph had
when I took the shot? It is a reliving and recreating of experience while working with specialty
silver papers and creating triptychs, diptychs and other layouts to photographically tell the
stories. The 19 limited edition colour archival quality giclée photographic prints are the result of
my photographic Scotland experience.

Bio
Kathy Browning is an Artist and an Art Educator. She has a Ph.D. and B.Ed. from University of
Toronto, an M.F.A. from York University, and a B.F.A. Honours from the University of Manitoba.
Kathy has taught Visual Arts and Technology at the elementary, secondary, and university
levels. She has shown artwork in all art media in Canada and the United States. Kathy has
received provincial and national awards and recognitions for art, videos, art education, writing,
publishing, and editing. Kathy’s giclée photographic prints are on archival paper in editions of
10.

Please see the following URLs for her website and video
https://laurentian.ca/videos-visual-artists-greater-sudbury
www.northernartistsgallery.ca/member/kathy-browning/