I’ve had a lot of fun recently on a project for brand new startup, Tiree Tea. It’s the brainchild of Rhoda Meek, who runs a working croft on the Hebridean island of Tiree from the home that her great-great-grandfather built. Once upon a time, when she was a wee girl and I was a wee …
Two years ago today I launched my little book, Sly Cooking: 42 Irresistible Gaelic Words, along with an exhibition of all 43 linocut prints that I had made to illustrate the book. It was a total delight to do, and has kept me smiling ever since. After its opening months at An Lanntair in Stornoway, the …
Sly Cooking has arrived! My book looks fabulous – I’m so pleased with it. Exactly the attractive little gift I wanted to make, and it’s for sale in my Etsy shop, along with the original linocuts that I made to go in it.
Look out for my first solo exhibition at An Lanntair in the Western Isles of Scotland this October! It’s taken me four years to make the 42 linocut prints which will feature in my book of illustrated Gaelic words, Sly Cooking. All the original prints will go on show from 15 October to 18 November, and my book will be launched …
Filming for a BBC documentary about my Gaelic project starts next week!
I am a Nasty Woman! As a direction reaction to Donald Trump, the Nasty Women Amsterdam exhibition is raising money for charities supporting women’s rights and equality. It was the perfect show for my print, Waiting to Hear if the World has Gone Mad, which I made on US Election Day, expressing how I felt about all …
Dutch News interviewed me about the joys of getting to know the Netherlands. Read it here!
Today I tried a new trick I’d heard about, for fixing mistakes in linocuts. It didn’t work, and I found myself relieved. Here’s why I love honesty marks.
A how-to for using Ternes Burton registration pins to make the perfect multi-block or reduction linocut.
How my welder print made me think of John Ruskin, his Lamp of Sacrifice, and the value that hours of devoted labour and craftsmanship can bring to art.