Sylvia Wishart: A Painter of Orkney’s Soul Sylvia Wishart (1936-2008) stands as a profoundly evocative figure in Scottish art, celebrated for her deeply personal and exquisitely rendered landscapes and seascapes of the Orkney Islands. More than simply depicting scenery, she captured the very essence of these windswept isles – their light, their form, and the palpable sense of poetic atmosphere that permeates them. Born in Stromness, a small fishing village on the northern coast of Mainland Orkney, Wishart’s life was inextricably linked to the dramatic beauty of her surroundings. Her childhoo…