Trying to carve out time to make new work was and continues to be quite challenging. There has been a relentless list of demands coming on top of the usual day to day running of a small creative business.
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Chris and I finally made time to take a very well earned break. We went back to the most beautiful place I know on earth - the Outer Hebrides - Isle of Barra, Eriskay and then on the way home, the Isle of Bute.
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I’ve begun a new body of work after many, many months. So much has happened in the last 15 months and yet also so little.
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I’m in a reflective mood this week. Yesterday I realised it was the 6th anniversary of signing the lease on 4 The Courtyard, Ochrelands Workshops - a studio all of my very own. I moved in on May 23rd 2015. A year later Chris, my husband, gave up his full time job to join me. A significant leap of faith.
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As an artist whose work is based on landscape, seascape and wildlife, I cannot fail to notice, especially over the last year, how precious our environment is. More needs to be done to reduce waste, especially plastic waste.
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My camera is like my artist sketchbook …
… in fact I use my camera more than I use a sketchbook.
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Here we are at the start of the New Year and in national lockdown ... again. Feels like ground hog day right?
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I don’t know about you but in our house Christmas feels very unreal and strange.
We won’t be seeing our daughter and her partner we still don’t know if our son can come from Glasgow. He lives in one of the areas where the Scottish Test & Trace are rolling out mass testing from this week, so we will have to wait and see.
This bridge over the burn (stream to those of you who don’t live in the North East) is literally a stone’s throw from the bottom of my garden. The little bridge is one of those local landmarks that I completely took for granted until, following the dog’s lead (excuse the pun!), I found myself observing the it from a fresh angle, framed in a sea of copper and gold.
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The #ArtistSupportPledge, is a movement instigated by Sussex based artist Matthew Burrows. His brainchild idea is the create an online support system for artists who have lost sales with the closure of galleries across the country.
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