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GillyB
Jan 4, 20243 min read
I am technologically challenged.
I am one of those folk who seems to repel electrical equipment. I was having this conversation with friends over a New Years Day dinner....
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GillyB
Jan 26, 20222 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20201 min read
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 19, 20203 min read
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...
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GillyB
Aug 16, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20191 min read
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, 20191 min read
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, 20191 min read
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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