The difference between looking and seeing.
In this weeks blog, I’m delighted to share a wonderfully thoughtful conversation I had with Orkney-based freelance wildlife cameraman and photographer Raymond Besant. I’ve admired Raymond’s work for a long time. Orkney being a small place, we’ve met a on a number of...
A Cargo of Hope
Last weekend I was preparing my canoe for a summer relaunch after a winter propped in the garage gathering dust and cobwebs. I’m very proud of my wee boat because I made it myself, so I was quite absorbed in touching up scrapes on the hull and adding a few coats of...
How to grow a cloud
It’s almost exactly seven years since we moved here. Slowly, slowly I am learning to belong in this place I was not born in but came to. I do what I can for this small patch of this small island in a small way. It’s not much, I know. But this is where I can touch the...
Clock Time or Rock Time?
In last week’s blog, I shared with you a conversation I had with archaeologist Mark Edmonds, as together we pondered a flint handaxe that Mark had written about in his book and brought to my studio. It’s a perfect teardrop shape, but with a twist to it, so it fits the...