24 Apr 10 days in Japan
Just back after spending 10 days in Japan over Easter. Cherry blossom time and also some wonderful exhibitions of scroll paintings (combining both beauty and some wonderfully comic scenes). ...
Just back after spending 10 days in Japan over Easter. Cherry blossom time and also some wonderful exhibitions of scroll paintings (combining both beauty and some wonderfully comic scenes). ...
Off to the Edinburgh festival to see the exhibition of “Rhythms” by Pat Archibald’s students of whom I am one. As always it is fascinating to see how differently the different people in the group interpret the theme and where they get their inspiration from....
The inspiration for my work comes from the forms and patterns I see around me. The landscape of Scotland, where I have a cottage on Harris, always inspires me...
Some time ago I noticed how attractive the ribbons are which smart shops wrap packages with and decided to make my friends bags as Christmas presents using the recycled ribbons and scraps of fabric from my larger projects. ...
Working on a triptych- people have lived in the Outer Hebrides since the Bronze Age and have left traces on the landscape- standing stones, bronze pins and more recently the stones of long deserted crofts,‘ the marks of long forgotten fields on the hillsides and...