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As you will have seen in my last newsflash, I’m now deep in the Bridge House winter course. I’m really loving the intensity of the experience, the expert tuition and my wonderful fellow-students (ten women, all amazing!). In Term 1, we studied still life, drawing, charcoal, oil and acrylic painting, printing, artists’ books, paper sculptures and much more. When Term 2 starts very soon, we’ll each be working on our own projects – the topic of mine will be rooks, and the media

I’m delighted to have been accepted on the Winter Course at Bridge House Art  - a small, independent art school in the north west highlands of Scotland, which offers a rich and varied programme of courses in the visual arts. This means that I am living in Ullapool from end October 2025 ‘til early March 2026. The course, which has been running for over 20 years, is fulltime over sixteen weeks, offering art, drawing, painting, mixed media, printmaking, artists' books and small

This September I decamped for a few days to Ullapool, to take part in a fantastic course, ‘Out of this Earth’, run by acclaimed fibre artist Claire Benn  and held at Bridge House Art . The course was designed to introduce us to an ecological method of binding natural earth, mineral and synthetic pigments to textiles or paper using soya milk. We learned about pigments, how to prepare our cloth, make our own soya milk and pre-size the cloth to receive pigments. We also learnt h

August 2025 saw my first duo exhibition – alongside my friend Sue Envill. Titled ‘Burnished’, it took place at Comunn Eachdraidh Nis, in Ness, where we both live. In this exhibition, I showed three areas of my work. My mono prints (each one unique, as the name suggests) were created with printing inks on sheets of fine tissue paper. My series of collaged boards – created from mono-printed papers – are my response to the vertiginous gneiss cliffs at the Butt of Lewis. Finally,