Callum Innes

A pure land documents a series of 50 watercolours that Innes completed in his Oslo studio, during lockdown, in the spring of 2020. The book draws its title from the poem by Thomas A Clark, which Innes finds inspirational.

‘When lockdown occurred, I was setting up a new studio, in Oslo. The context was unfamiliar, and I had no reference to earlier work, as I do in Edinburgh. I turned to watercolours again, always starting the day with a black and white one…these being the most elusive. We placed the work sequentially in the book, so you can see how each informed the next, and so on.’ – Callum Innes

Poet: Thomas A Clark

Designer: Herman Lelie

Published 1 March 2021