Inspired by the story of the Last Wolf of Moray, said to have been killed on the banks of the River Findhorn at Darnaway in 1743, artist Caroline Bury conjures fantastical and extraordinary beings who emerge as witnesses, storytellers and keepers of memory. Through these imagined figures, histories shift from certainty into folklore, where many voices, human and otherwise, remain unheard.

Based in Knockando, Moray, Caroline Bury is a contemporary mixed-media sculptor specialising in intricate, handcrafted art dolls and anthropomorphic sculptures. Internationally collected, her work draws from dark folklore, mythology, dreams and the natural world. Birds, ancient archetypes, poetry and imagined ecologies populate her practice, creating strange and compelling worlds inhabited by creatures that feel both ancient and newly discovered.

For generations, stories were told around the fire about what lay beyond the threshold, deep within the Wildwood, unseen and unknown. Today we understand forests as places of hidden connection through mycelial networks beneath the ground, unseen systems that sustain life. Caroline’s work inhabits these same spaces, where symbols, myth and imagination reveal deeper truths and all things remain interconnected.

These are not fairies or goblins but beings of another order, moving through dappled groves where birds speak, wolves dream and the forest remembers.

“In the forests there are many birds, eyes and tongues to tell, if only we could listen.”

Ray John Vortex Twist, 2026

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