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Looking out across Structure 12 towards the Loch of Harray. The full extent of the landscape is now visible because, due to Covid regulations, there is no viewing platform  for visitors. In the drawing the sun is shining on the […]

What a difference a week, or two, makes! As if I needed reassurance that I enjoy hands-on doing the four day ’art camp’ (non-residential!) and five days of distributing ’art-bags’ demonstrated to me just how detrimental six months of computer-based […]

After last year’s cancelled dig, we are all very glad to be back. However, things are strictly limited in order to comply with Covid rules. There is only a small team on site working in a much reduced area of the […]

Talking to other artists, it is clear that ‘collaboration’ can mean a whole range of things, and taking the time to discuss examples of successful partnerships helped to reveal a range of possibilities. 1  Joy and Gill are keen to find […]

In January 2021, Covid restrictions meant that Gill and Joy were to start their dialogue through zoom meetings.  The first conversation uncovered their very similar histories as creative practitioners with portfolio careers – both had periods of work in industry, […]

In order to think about similarities that might come together in their two practices, Gill and Joy set up a ‘Pinterest’ board on which to share influential ideas and artists. There was an obvious joint appreciation for textural qualities that […]

I’ve done another drawing, but this time is only the outline of the hallway and not shaded. This is because I’m going to do the rest digitally, including drawing the tentacles. I’ve been drawing using rulers, protractors and set squares, […]

I have a strange relationship with my sketch book(s) I think… I have two on the go. One is A5, a tie-up Muji thing, with things poking out of it, receipts, photos, cards and envelopes. It is written in as […]

  7 live performances to camera …   within a certain time frame, and within a specific frame of space, new movement emerges… ways to love.. light grips my hands and I roll it around like clay…Like promises, like water perhaps… […]

I did a sketch of my living room that’s emptied out, with a more detailed version of what I imagine tentacles to look like. I called it Headless because the tentacles are mostly hidden behind the door, and the viewer […]