I’ve been finding it hard to sleep lately. Maybe you’ve been the same. I’ve had to start rationing my time on Twitter, not so much because of the big black ‘X’ and other changes to the platform, but because I follow a number of climate scientists. They are, frankly...
I’ve been thinking and reading about water, time and connectedness a lot recently. But a piece of the puzzle has been missing: where does creative practice fit in to this story? We can think about how beauty is necessary even in times as full of trouble and foreboding...
If you follow me on Instagram you’ll know that I gave a short presentation last week, along with fellow artist Anne Bevan, at the Orkney Research and Innovation Campus (ORIC) in Stromness. I asked how we might stay afloat together in these turbulent times. Samantha...
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...
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...
I recently shared a conversation with archaeologist, writer and artist Mark Edmonds. He came to my studio at the weekend to talk about his new book “Making a Handaxe”, bringing with him an object of contemplation and conversation: an exquisitely shaped...
