On the front line of a receding glacier - Sermeq Kujalleq, the icefjord glacier at Ilulissat, Greenland.
The ice is leaving and fast. Getting up close and personal with a 250,000 year old glacier is an awe inspiring experience. Saying goodbye to a fast receding icesheet leaves me in deep grief about the future of Greenland and the world.
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Icebergs seen on route to Ilulissat, Greenland
Your body knows when it needs rest. Ignore it at your peril. So I travelled while I slept and woke up to icebergs for breakfast. An inspirational reset in Greenland.
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Trying something new can extend your world view. From creating a ceramic stone and holding it in my hand, to linking this with US President John F Kennedy’s often quoted line “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
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Tens of thousands of stones and minerals in Petra’s garden, Stöðvarfjörður
It’s easy to get lost in the big picture, the huge landscape and forget the details, That’s when I find it's necessary to pull focus. Which is what I did by visiting Petra’s stone collection, the inspirational garden of Iceland’s most famous stone collector, naturalist and stone artist.
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The Kalush Orchestra - Ukraine’s entry in Eurovision 2022
Is great art political? From Eurovision to the Archibald Art prize winner, this week has seen great art making strong political statements with the eyes of the world watching.
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Daily artwork with stitched scraps of paper collaged onto 10x10cm paper
How do you become unstuckable as an artist? When inspiration dries up, or you’re feeling too tired or stressed to create, what do you do? That’s where a daily practice can save your day and inspire you to keep going.
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The town of Seydisfjördur, East Iceland
In an Icelandic town known for its postcard beauty, trouble looms ahead. Still reeling from an avalanche nearly 18 months ago, the small town of Seydisfjördur is about to have industrial fish farms in the fjord. Locals are up in arms and the arty community is rallying.
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Pilgrim, Stranger - Coigrich Taistealach artist book April 2022
Being gifted Gaelic titles for some of my artworks while in Scotland has given me the key to a map of landscape. My accordion fold artist book Pilgrim Stranger with its Gaelic name Coigrich Taistealach has unlocked this landscape as a place of mystery which I have entered as a pilgrim.
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Landscape, Interrupted. Mixed media, 2022.
You can never un-know what you know. In the midst of extraordinary beauty at my artist residency at Cove Park, I discover that just over the peninsular is the UK’s largest nuclear submarine facility. It is almost as if, in the midst of beauty, we need to scar the landscape in the most spectacularly catastrophic way. How to make art to reflect this?
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The lodberrie which features in the BBC series Shetland
Each place and landscape has its own story, but it is relative to who is the storyteller. Shetland for me is about knitted jumpers and the BBC series Shetland. As I walked along the streets of Lerwick, rain shimmering on wet concrete, I felt like I was a character in the this story of place and identity.
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