Fife-based architect contributes a highly evolved study of a listed home and its setting in a fishing village on Scotland’s northeast coast, earning a commendation in the Eye Line 2025 drawing competition
Consider this entry, above, a highly evolved form of site study. With a brief to breathe new life into a listed cottage in the village of Crovie on Scotland’s northeast coast, Hamish McAndrew concentrated less on the building in question and more on what he saw around it.
As inspiration for his collage of multiple pen drawings he sought to evoke “the landscape of jagged rock pools and turbulent waters”, and to highlight the “aesthetic parallels between the building’s lime-pointed stone walls and some of the marine life it shares the area with”. The drawings were layered to give a sense of depth.
“It’s a good example of a “thinking drawing” that bothers to investigate the nature of a site,” said judge Samantha Hardingham, while fellow panel member and Eye Line 2024 Practitioner winner Koldo Lus Arana enjoyed its “perceived ‘flat’ narrative of many layers”.
Mary Duggan, meanwhile, loved “the story it tells about the architecture in the background, formed from materials in the foreground that could be zoomed in on and interrogated”. A work born of observation, time and energy, she relished how it “still feels incomplete, always asking questions”.