Gillian Mciver

Volcano!!!

I went to Lanzarote. No, it wasn’t a beachy holiday, it was work – workshops to be more precise. Creativity. I did writing.Lots of it. I also went to the lava fields  hills, and walked them, pretty scary, and went inside a volcano.

Lanzarote is amazing. Prickly, spiky place. Cactus growing everywhere. Most of the island is rough lava rock. Barren hills. It’s another planet. And it’s beautiful.

 

inside the volcano

 

volcanic hills

 

the route taken

Published by Gillian Mciver

Hi I'm The Art traveller. I'm a filmmaker, writer and art historian. The Art Traveller is my blog, where I write about travelling the world and looking at art. I'm interested in how the environment and history of a place affect how we see art. My work includes documentary film-making, short films and artists' video, often exploring historical events or places. My interest in art history and film led me, in 2016 to write "Art History for Filmmakers" published by Bloomsbury Press, a book exploring how filmmakers can and do use paintings from the past to inspire and create visual story telling.