Ratho rock climbing centre west of Edinburgh is built inside a disused quarry. It is an awesome place dedicated to that wild urge that humans have to climb. I drew this not long after it opened, attracted by the wonderful contrast of artifice, folly and ambition.
Cathedral of Ascent (Ratho)
charcoal on primed paper
110 x 200cm
2003
From the series of ‘civil engineering drawings for the 21st century.’
Exhibited Society of Scottish Artists 2004
Collection of the artist.