Fiery watercolours document apocalyptic scenes from Hollywood to the Highlands
February 12 2025
Stirred by a spate of fires from the Highlands to Hollywood architect Alan Dunlop has inked a series of watercolour images documenting conflagrations from around the world.
A follow-up to drawings of the Mackintosh fire in Glasgow the A2 drawings on cold press watercolour paper illustrate the dangers of a warming world and the fragility of our heritage buildings.
Dunlop told Urban Realm: "Inspired (if that's the right word) by the success of the watercolour inferno triptych that destroyed Mackintosh's masterwork the Glasgow School of Art, I am currently working on a new set of watercolours on the theme of 'Fire'.
"So far, wildfires in Los Angeles in 2024; Cannich in 2015 and Notre Dame in 2019 have caught my attention."
The not black & white series employs vivid oranges and scarlet reds to illuminate apocalyptic scenes.
No expense has been spared to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral which reopened in December
The Cannich wildire of 2015 burned through 15 square km over 5 days
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3 Comments
Did their contractor not have fire insurance?
Means it’s a shame that the Glasgow School of Art didn’t burn down in Paris, rather than Glasgow. Couldn’t we sell the ruins to the French, and ask them to do what we evidently can’t manage to do?