My work has recently been included in an art and experimental film show, celebrating the work of Orkney based artists. It's been on an...

So I have worked out a thing. My second to last blog I talked about being in the depths of grief and shit. And in my last blog I was...

What a way to start a sunny Sunday. a new Backstitch episode of the Seamside podcast with Jennifer Mao, where she manages, with Zak...

I’m not sure where to start this post, or indeed what I will end up saying here. What I do know is that over the last couple of weeks I...

In 2018, after Rik died, his sister offered to make me a memory quilt. I hadn’t heard of them before but it sounded like a lovely idea....

On 30 June 2012 I returned from Aberdeen to Orkney. It was a tortuous journey - there was a thick haar and the plane was cancelled, so we...

‘We can’t decide who our families are, but we can decide who we love.’ So says Jude in The Lodger, the final play by Robert Holman, which...

I am an Artist with a capital A. But there are many times in the last 30+ years that I haven’t felt able to call myself an Artist, mostly...

In October 2021 I was awarded a Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award, funded by Orkney Islands Council, Creative Scotland and Highlands &...

I had no expectations of Ghent. The one focus I had was on the altarpiece and everything else has been a bonus. And what a bonus - the...

Ghent (16:47 Wednesday 11 May) via Kirkwall (23:45 Monday 9 May); Aberdeen (07:00 Tuesday 10 May); Edinburgh (11:38 Tuesday 10 May);...

18 years ago today, I arrived in Orkney with my partner Rik, our 2 cats, a Vauxhall Corsa full of clothes, important documents and not...

My front My back Scatter-gunned scars Tell two of my stories Part of my tale. They don't make me But they have shaped me. I was lucky...

The beginning of April is a special time in Orkney. Spring is coming, the daffodils are coming out, the soil is starting to warm up and...