Diarmad MacKinnon is a Scottish artist working across painting, writing, moving image, and installation. Raised between the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, his practice draws upon mythology, landscape, cultural memory, and wandering forms of perception.
Working through associative image-making, field observation, and layered narrative structures, his work explores the relationship between ecology, inner life, and mythic imagination. Recurring interests include cosmology, shifting states of atmosphere and memory, regenerative lifeways, and the persistence of older symbolic worlds within contemporary culture.
Alongside visual art, MacKinnon maintains an ongoing writing practice spanning essayistic fragments, travel-based reflections, and experimental narrative forms.