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Lossiemouth (known as Lossie) is a fishing town in Moray known as the Riviera of the North. Two beaches, one to the East and one to the West, flank the iconic harbour. It is an amalgamation of several fishing villages: Kinneddar, Stotfield, Seatown and Branderburgh – these neighbouring coastal communities once sat on a peninsula wedged between the Moray Firth and the Loch Spynie. This large sea loch stretched eleven miles east-west, from Lossie to Burghead. In 1600, shifting sands cut it off from the sea. In the mid-1800s, Thomas Telford engineered the draining of the peninsula. James Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) who was originally from Lossiemouth, made the place famous when he became Prime Minister in 1929.
Lossiemouth Harbour is both closely observed and a personal edit of the harbour, sky and landscape beyond – the reflections in the water carefully balance a sky which has echoes of ships passing and houses on the clifftop.
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