The first side of my painting has been critiqued in our last university critique. The painting was overally apprecciated and lead to people having various thoughts about it. From reading my notes from that day, the fact that I painted […]
Public Art & interpretation project
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve decided to celebrate life drawings as my theme for my March Boldbrush art contest entries. Life drawing is the practice that underpins all of my artwork and it was such a relief to find a way of continuing online […]
Every month I enter the Boldbrush Art Contest. This blog shows my entries and the links to vote.
Thank you in advance for voting, each one makes such a difference :)
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. […]
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 […]
Continuing our meander round to Blacksness Docks, here are the next three drawings from Scalloway: I can see this rather sizeable boat tethered to the corner of the dockyard from my window. It marks the entrance point of the docks […]
I’ve been staying on the harbourside in Scalloway, Shetland during this art residency, with the winter tides splashing up to the windows. Walking around what was once the capital of Shetland, I noticed that access to the water through nooks […]
Heading back down the A970 after exploring the Nesting area on mainland Shetland, these contours caught my eye and so I pulled over to draw them. Not so much of an official parking place as much as one of the […]
The rather fabulously named Mavis Grind is a narrow joining piece of land that links the mainland of north-west Shetland to the Northmavine peninsula. I didn’t know that this was where I was until afterwards, I’d just found a place that I […]
