Liondsaidh Chaimbeul is an Honours graduate in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art, where she was taught by Jake Harvey and Vincent Butler. A native of Edinburgh, she moved to Skye 30 years ago and has lived there and in Kyle of Lochalsh with her husband, the writer Angus Peter Campbell and their six children. She works as a part-time school bus driver.
Her sculpture in this year’s RSA Exhibition is life-size hand-carved figure of a father with his daughter on his shoulders. The figures are carved from a lime tree given to her by Iain Ruairidh MacDonald of Sleat and took her something like ten years to carve. It can speak of trust and love and security and of a child looking with confidence into the future based on that foundation.
The sculpture is titled, in the father and child’s native Gaelic, ‘Agus Bha E Math’ (‘And It Was Good’) from Genesis Chapter One, echoing the goodness of all creation.