Shetland Art Residency

It was still and sunny when Buttercup the Beetle and I parked up. We positioned ourselves so that I could see everything clearly, and within minutes the heavens opened and Buttercup was being rocked gently by a not-so-gentle gust.

Looking out to Wester Kerry, Crussa Skerry, Skeo Skerry, Scarf Scult and Holm of Helli Ness

(charcoal on handmade paper)

available

(what3words location: reclaimed.modest.physics)

It’s a day of witnessing the sky and water in intense communication. One pouring forth and the other accommodating the outpouring. The land and islands around Whiteness Voe bearing witness to pure nature.

Whiteness Voe, Shetland

Charcoal on handmade paper

available

(what3words location: baguette.tapes.pulsing)

So that’s a sketchbook filled! A wintry wander round the docks, steps and slipways of Scalloway, Shetland. You’ll find the blogposts for the drawings if you select either Shetland Residency or Sketchbook Project in the topics menu above, and here’s a snapshot of all the sketches and what3words locations:

So that’s a sketchbook filled! A wintry wander round the docks, steps and slipways of Scalloway, Shetland. You’ll find the blogposts for the drawings if you select either Shetland Residency or Sketchbook Project in the topics menu above, and here’s a snapshot of all the sketches and what3words locations:

1. tenure.thrashed.cattle

2. refrained.infects.cools

3. dose.recliner.remember

4. contexts.tickling.winds

5. twisty.reviews.willpower

6. files.update.apprehend

7. gong.sponge.leafing

8. armrest.sprint.glimmers

9. hopefully.comforted.crafts

10. dealings.ketchup.crumbles

11. encroached.overtones.caressed

12. copies.perusing.solid

13. upsetting.descended.lends

14. slope.skinny.samplers

15. unpacked.loafer.nicer

16. brilliant.awoke.crossing

The sketchbook will be sent off shortly to The Sketchbook Project at the Brooklyn Art Library where it will be catalogued and digitised in due course.

The Sketchbook Project is the world’s largest collection of artist sketchbooks and is housed in Brooklyn, New York. Many are digitised and available to view from wherever you are, and the actual sketchbooks are often taken around the States on tour of educational establishments. I’ve noted each exact location with the what3words app in case you fancy looking them up.

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These are my final Scalloway drawings as I continued round the harbour, out of the village centre and towards the marina:

The view over the harbour towards East Voe and Trondra from a slipway between West Shore and Scalloway marina.

(what3words location: upsetting.descended.lends)

Approaching the boats moored at Scalloway marina.

(what3words location: slope.skinny.samplers)

I would say these boats were sunbathing, but not really this winter! They were having a rest from being immersed in the water, even if they hadn’t escaped completely.

(what3words location: unpacked.loafer.nicer)

Our final slipway by Scalloway Boating Club, before the Port Arthur and the Marine Centre at the end of the road.

(what3words location: brilliant.awoke.nicer)

The Sketchbook Project is the world’s largest collection of artist sketchbooks and is housed in Brooklyn, New York. Many are digitised and available to view from wherever you are, and the actual sketchbooks are often taken around the States on tour of educational establishments. I’ve noted each exact location with the what3words app in case you fancy looking them up.

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Turning our attention towards Scalloway village centre now, we return past The Booth and down the steps and round what I initially thought was a water tower (it’s actually the sewerage plant!):

There are steps down to the sea just by the tower. This is looking back towards Blacksness Docks, incorporating The Booth.

(what3words location: gong.sponge.leafing)

Our first slipway. There are several along the harbour wall. This is behind the youth centre.

(what3wordslocation: armrest.sprint.glimmers)

Continuing up Main Street, this slipway looks out towards Trondra and East Voe.

(what3words location: hopefully.comforted.crafts)

The Sketchbook Project is the world’s largest collection of artist sketchbooks and is housed in Brooklyn, New York. Many are digitised and available to view from wherever you are, and the actual sketchbooks are often taken around the States on tour of educational establishments. I’ve noted each exact location with the what3words app in case you fancy looking them up.

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