Fisk Gallery & Workshop

Fisk Gallery sits at Polbain on the Coigach peninsula, half a mile beyond Achiltibuie toward the road end at Reiff. The gallery is the working studio of printmaker and painter Lucy Fisk, and the building doubles as production space and retail, visitors during opening days can see the press, the inks and the work in progress alongside the finished prints on the walls.

The output is anchored on the surrounding landscape: the Summer Isles strung out across Badentarbat Bay, the cnoc-and-lochan country inland through Inverpolly, the cliffs and storm-beaches around Reiff and Faochaig, the long views across to Suilven and Stac Pollaidh. The work is mostly hand-pulled prints, linocut, woodblock, screen, alongside watercolour and acrylic paintings. Each print is signed and numbered from limited editions; commissions on local subjects are taken.

The Polbain location is genuinely off the main visitor circuit. Coigach as a whole is fifteen miles single-track off the A835, and Polbain is another mile-and-a-half further along the road past Achiltibuie. The drive west along the road takes visitors through some of the most distinctive landscape in the north-west, Lurgainn lochs, the Stac Pollaidh viewpoint, the Achiltibuie ridge, and the gallery is a sensible final stop on a Coigach day.

Open by posted hours through the season; check the Facebook page before driving out.