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Sep 21
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 begi...

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Aug 19
3 min

Boat life

I have been asked some questions lately that have got me pondering about life on a boat and why I am where I am. Family holidays were oft...

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Aug 16
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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May 9
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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When you don't want to be anywhere except where you are.

GillyB

Feb 23
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 ke...

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Jan 9
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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The beautiful brain benefits of sketching from life.

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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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 volunt...

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You just never know what you are going to be doing.

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 exhi...

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