I have been awarded a generous Travel Bursary from a-n to enable me to explore the Outer Hebrides to enable me to broaden and strengthen the connections I made on Iona during the Winter of 2015/16. I feel very grateful and excited about this opportunity.
I will be travelling to Sutherland, Orkney (including Papa Stronsay), Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, Eriskay and Barra. I’m also hoping to get to Tiree. I’ll be visiting Arts Centres and hoping to meet their staff. I’ll be making drawings and notes and paintings in my mobile studio with Pip Seymour paints, monotype equipment and several sketch and note books. These notes and drawings will be shown for the first time in a show I’ll be having in the Little Picture room at Newlyn Art Gallery opening November 11th 2016.
A bit later in the year I will also visit Tobermory on Mull to visit Comar, and I’ll return to Iona to teach a workshop and spend some time working on the Croft at Lagandorain.
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