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I had planned to report on a busy year ahead – a local solo exhibition at the Steadings Gallery, participating in a group exhibition in London and another year’s joint residency at Inverewe Garden. However, as for other art practitioners, these opportunities have disappeared into the black hole of the ...

Our 2019 residency at Inverewe is now over. Regretfully, Ian Stephens could not participate so we were very pleased to have writer Mandy Haggith join us to make an all female group – the Wise Women. Our final exhibition, Wise Women and The Earth, ran from mid September to the ...

My first session of the collaborative residency at National Trust for Scotland’s Inverewe Garden, Poolewe will begin on Tuesday 2 April. Joining me on this adventure are fellow artists – Dorge Khandro, Joanne B Kaar, Kathy Sutherland, Lynn Bennett MacKenzie, and Ian Stephens. Our first exhibition will introduce some of ...

Happy New Year!This summer I will be participating in a collaborative residency project at the Sawyer Gallery at the National Trust for Scotland’s Inverewe Garden with other artists of different disciplines, and involving two exhibitions. This is a new venture for me and I’m very excited to be able to ...

Six of my sculptures are now part of the ‘Off The Wall’ exhibition at the ScotlandArt Gallery in Glasgow, spotlighting a collection of sculpture, ceramics and stoneware. Other artists featured are Tom Allan (sculpture), and ceramics from Katie Smith, Sarah Perry and Pratima Kramer. Off The Wall runs from Friday ...

  Work is now complete on ‘The Shelter of Your Arms’, the sculpture I have created specially for my exhibition – Time Traveller – at the Sawyer Gallery, situated in the National Trust for Scotland’s Inverewe Garden, Poolewe. Inspired by the shelter belt that protects the garden and allows it ...

The preview for ‘Reflections’ at Birch Tree Gallery went well, and I was very pleased to meet my fellow exhibitor, Suzie MacKenzie; so pleased in fact, we bought one of her lovely prints. Birch Tree Gallery owner Jurgita Galbraith has displayed everything beautifully and both prints and sculptures work very ...

Next month, both newly-sculpted and older works will be shown with the collograph prints of Highland printmaker Suzie MacKenzie, at the Birch Tree Gallery in Edinburgh in an exhibition called Reflections. The gallery specialises in a stimulating programme of fine craft and print exhibitions that focus on the natural world ...

I’m now back in the carving shed after delivering work to Sculpt at Kew. Here’s a photo of my husband Jim and myself at the opening reception, in the retail gallery after visiting part of the sculpture trail – ‘Born on the West Wind’ between us. There are 75 fabulous ...

This month (July) I’m a featured artist at Lochcarron Gallery, where I have two sculptures on show. Whilst setting up I was pleased to reconnect with a local couple who had purchased a sculpture from my Plockton exhibition last year to mark their wedding anniversary. It’s always difficult to let ...