Imagine having this bright, intricate Celtic-design bowl in your house: you would make it a centrepiece, wouldn’t you? If you had visited Celtic artist and educator George Bain’s house in Drumnadrochit in the 1940s, however, you may well have been dazzled by the many everyday household objects decorated in this style. Jo Clements, our George Bain Curator, imagined what it may have been like to encounter the bowl in Bain’s household and explores the inspiration for the bowl in the latest podcast in the Highland Objects series – listen here.
Image: Keith Wood Photography