During October I’ll travel to Glasgow School of Art to work with the students using my hollow bone technique of tuning in (details in an earlier post, with description by Professor Penny Florence). This is also the way I worked with Marc Almond when I made the original drawings for his current album, the Velvet Trail.
Afterwards I will travel to Oban and catch the ferry and coach to the Isle of Iona where I’ll be in residence for three weeks, living in a shepherds bothy and using the studio at the hostel there. I’m really excited about my visit to Scotland and by the thought of tuning into the sense of place on beautiful Iona. It is known as a ‘thin’ place where the veil between this world and the next is very thin.
During my time on Iona I’ll return to London for three days to be one of the Artists in Residence at the Royal College of Art, with the National Open Art competition. I’ll have drawings from Iona with me to show and sell, and I’ll also be inviting visitors to sit beside me so I can tune into them, becoming the hollow bone, to produce bespoke drawings….I’ll be there from October 24 – 26 and I’m really excited about this too!