Rare photos of the past from a Scottish artist-By Renuka Sadanandan The boats setting out: A voyage of 20 miles from the shore Source:Sundaytimes ‘A Scottish Artist in Ceylon’ – a new exhibition this week at the Harold Peiris Gallery of the Lionel Wendt takes the visitor back more than a century to vanished views of the country, thanks to a collaboration between two National Trusts – of Scotland and Sri Lanka. The year is 1907. A well-known Scottish artist Edward Atkinson Hornel arrives in Sri Lanka accompanied by his sister Elizabeth. Hornel is on a photographic mission: he visits the famous pearl fisheries on the island’s north western coast and it is presumed that with the help of his cousin James Hornell, he captures comprehensively the entire sequence of how that fraught operation unfolded. A.E. Hornel also visited the tea plantations and his striking images of the tea ...
