Confident Plainness

Confident Plainness is an expression given by a member of the Into the Mountain choir, when describing the relationship of Shepherd’s writing in the creative process.

Hannah writes, ‘The embodied nature of Nan Shepherd’s writing infiltrated the music and movement with authenticity and a kind of confident plainness. There were no scones or floral tablecloths up the mountain. Nourishment was drawn from a lived experience; communing with the hills and with women, sweating with others, surviving together when snow fell and thick cloud covered us, using our voices to echo the stream and call to the skylarks.” Click here to read the full response.

Shepherd, N., 2011. The living mountain: a celebration of the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. Canongate Books.