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The Muckle Stane (The Big Stone)
This is a wall of paper cut cast and characters and locations for The Muckle Stane a short film made in collaboration with Jenny Sturgeon...
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GillyB
- Nov 9, 2021
- 3 min
A deck covered in snow
It's 5am and I am in a marina on the outskirts of Alesund in my boat TessBess. I am delivering a workshop via Zoom to a group spread...
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GillyB
- Sep 17, 2021
- 2 min
Why the long silence?
In the brief window of travel opportunity way back last Autumn, we set sail for Norway in our boat TessBess. This trip had been long...
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GillyB
- Sep 21, 2020
- 1 min
Drawing workshops
One of the most enjoyable developments in my creative life is sharing my love of sketching outside through drawing workshops. At the...
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GillyB
- Aug 16, 2020
- 2 min
Distressing shores
I made this piece a while ago whilst battling the wind to pull open a dog poo bag and hold onto it before it was whipped out of my hand....
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GillyB
- May 9, 2020
- 2 min
The Lockdown
Like everyone, I have had to inhabit a smaller environment, both socially and physically, like everyone I have had to look at it anew, to...
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GillyB
- Feb 23, 2020
- 2 min
When you don't want to be anywhere except where you are.
2020 is the year of Scotland's coasts and waters and as Storm Dennis arrived in Shetland I was happily watching, cosy in my lighthouse...
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GillyB
- Jan 9, 2020
- 1 min
Getting rid of unnecessaries
I work a lot with paper cutting, the boldness of the image appeals to me. I think it might have something to do with my love of the black...
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GillyB
- Oct 7, 2019
- 1 min
The beautiful brain benefits of sketching from life.
"Sketching helps develop a number of different areas of your brain. You develop your ability to focus and pay attention, a skill that can...
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GillyB
- Sep 19, 2019
- 1 min
Working big.
This summer we sailed to the Faroes, we had been there last summer too and met some lovely families through 'workaways' where you...
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GillyB
- Aug 31, 2019
- 1 min
You just never know what you are going to be doing.
Last summer, for the first time in decades, a cargo was delivered by sail boat to Hays Dock, Lerwick. It was all of the items for my...
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