The 1970 Gallery

21/11/2025

So looking forward to this weekend and welcoming you to the gallery for some festive shopping...cookies and drinks will be served as well!

13/11/2025

Beautifully said Donnie! Looking forward to the event!

Shop Local at Festive Shopping Weekend in Waternish
Sat 29th & Sun 30th November - 10am til 4pm.

Skio Pottery - The 1970 Gallery - Skyeskyns - Donnie’s Tablet Shed - Stein Inn - Lynne’s Art Shed - Wine Guy On Skye - Waternish Farm

The festive season is upon us, and there’s no better way to celebrate than by supporting our local stores! This year, we invite you to experience the joy of Christmas shopping right here in Waternish.

Our independent shops and local makers’ studios are brimming with unique gifts including ceramics, lino prints, cards, books, candles, jewellery, sheepskin rugs & accessories, knitwear, homemade tablet, fine wines and Scottish treats.

Enjoy the atmosphere with some festive hot drinks and mince pies while you shop for items that you won’t find anywhere else.

So come on down, explore our wonderful shops and cosy pub, and find the perfect presents for everyone on your list. Thank you for choosing to shop local!

Skíō Pottery - Shop the winter collection of ceramics and grab a bargain in the sample sale whilst enjoying festive bakes and hot spiced apple juice.

The 1970 Gallery - A beautifully curated selection of gifts and art, sure to suit everyone on your list.

Skyeskyns - Wonderful sheepskins, locally made items and knitwear for the cosiest Christmas gifts. Enjoy a hot drink in the most beautiful showroom.

Me- Donnie's Tablet Shed - Isle of Skye - The big shed will be open and is full to the brim with homemade tablet and Scottish made treats including jams, chutneys, chocolate, drinks and more! Create the perfect hamper whilst enjoying a cocktail and some festive baking.

Stein Inn - The fire will be lit and candles glowing in the cosiest and oldest Inn on Skye. Enjoy a drink and some delicious food to finish off the shopping day, open lunch and dinner.

Lynne’s Art Shed - Shop from a selection of colourful florals and landscapes
as original art, prints and cards from Lynne’s beautiful studio.

Wine Guy on Skye - Sample and shop a selection of incredible wines perfect for every occasion, get stocked up for the festive season and find the perfect gifts for wine lovers.

Waternish Farm - Stop by the beautiful Waternish Farm where light refreshments and books (new and second hand) for sale over the weekend.

Barnweil Crafts won’t be open that weekend but you can shop online at their new website.

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Forward to seeing you!

24/10/2025

Looking forward to this!

21/08/2025

They are absolute beauties!

21/07/2025

Heading north and should be with us shortly!

Leaving me today with a smile and with other companions to travel over the sea to Skye . Their destination is The 1970 Gallery . So if you are on this magical Scottish island do go and visit them .

12/07/2025

After a bit of a s**t show weather wise here on Skye recently the heatwave has finally arrived. 😎

Taps ‘aff and dooks in for us 🤿🛶

There’s plenty going on in Waternish this weekend as well including the Sheepdog trials 🐶

All these great Visit Waternishbusinesses will be open too…

Donnie's Tablet Shed - Isle of Skye🍫
The Stein Inn 🦐🍺
YURTea&coffee ☕️🍰
Skyeskyns🐏
Loch Bay Restaurant🧑🏻‍🍳🦞
Wine Guy on Skye 🍷🍾
Divers Eye Boat Trips 🐳🦭
The 1970 Gallery 🖼️
Barnweil Crafts 🛠️

Our self service croftbox will be open as usual!

03/07/2025

Open today from 10-5…the heating is on!

05/06/2025

Thanks for the lovely post from Visit Waternish and the gallery.

There’s so much to do on our little corner of Skye including Skíō Pottery Skyeskyns, the Yurt Tea at Skyesyns, Isle of Skye Hampers and Donnie's Tablet Shed, The Stein Inn and Barnweil Crafts - and it’s where sky meets Skye!

18/05/2025

Deep in the wild beauty of Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands, artist and printmaker Louise Worthy finds endless inspiration — from sweeping moors and majestic mountains to the turquoise waters and white sands of remote beaches.

After a career in fashion design, Louise returned to her first love — printmaking — bringing her background in textiles into her intricate, highly expressive works. Using techniques like monoprint, drypoint etching, collagraph, digital sinterescent print and linocut, she captures the soul of the Highlands in every piece she creates.

✨ We are delighted to be selling a selection of Louise’s prints - available to buy online today or come and see them in the flesh at the gallery!

Own a unique vision of Scotland’s wild, untamed beauty — whether it’s a windswept landscape, a serene loch, stunning beaches and its wildlife inhabitants, or mesmerising night skies every print tells its own story.

👉 Tap the link https://the1970.co.uk/collections/louise-worthy to shop Louise Worthy’s collection.

15/05/2025

When you move 683 miles away to fulfil a long held dream of living in the Scottish Highlands, there’s no guarantees that you’ll end up finding your tribe but have to say we’ve been really fortunate to have met some amazing people and made some really special friends, friends who you can have BIG talk with as well as making merry! I count Sarah Bold as one of those people. I met Sarah when she visited the gallery, and we just got chatting and I invited myself over to her studio for a natter and I don’t think we stopped to take breath for nearly 2 hours. Making friends as you get older and in a new community can take a long time and so when you meet someone who you feel is a kindred spirit you feel immensely lucky.

I really love Sarah’s work and what drives her to create these exquisite pieces. She is fascinated by the impact we have on the ecosystems, geology and climate and how this interacts with the rural environment. For me her work has a way of capturing the essence of the Highland landscape. With moody palettes, textured brushstrokes, and a deep emotional pull, she is able to capture the solitude, drama, and quiet power of the landscape we inhabit and call home She isn’t trying to create perfect detail, it’s more about feeling a place, where mist, mountains, sky and stone all blur into something atmospheric and timeless. Where your imagination gets to fill in the gaps, whether through memory or emotion, where you sense the past, present and future all in the same moment, where nothing and everything changes.

We have 2 fabulous pieces left on the walls of the gallery and they are definitely worth making the trip to come and see them in the flesh! And if you can’t make your way to Skye then they are also available on our website.

https://the1970.co.uk/collections/sarah-bold

13/05/2025

We’ve been a bit quiet as we’ve had major renovations happening on the house which meant the kitchen / sitting room / dining room had to decamp to the gallery…the work was supposed to be about 6-7 weeks and finished a couple of weeks ago - he joys of renovations where you peel back layers and kinda wished you hadn’t! 😂.

Despite the silence we have been beavering away sourcing new artists and makers and Navah kinda fell into my lap…Navah visited Skye last year on holiday and came to the gallery and asked if I’d be interested in her enamel work. At the time we weren’t 100% sure if we would continue with the gallery in 2025 for various reasons and so I said I would let her know in the new year…short story long…we’re open for another season and you guys get a first glimpse at the stunning enamel pieces that Navah has created for us. The gallery is her first foray into selling via a shop and I’m thrilled that we are going to be a part of showcasing her work to a wider audience - one of the best things about a gallery is being able to support an artist and maker in their practice so this brings me a LOT of joy!

With no further ado may I present to you the luscious, vibrant and fabulous work of enamel artist Navah Langmeyer.

You can browse her work here on the website https://the1970.co.uk/collections/navah-langmeyer

13/03/2025

Looking forward to seeing everyone in a few weeks!