Ullapool Art Advenure

Step We Gaily, On we Go, Heel by Heel and Toe by Toe We are already at the end of our first week. We have just seven weeks left of this four month experience. It has gone incredibly fast. Between New Year and our first day back I had to come up with a personal project. I fiercely rejected life drawing. I can't see the point and it has no interest for me.  There, I said it...now I am just waiting to be struck down by a wrathful classical artist.   One of our themes is Identity so I dithered over that for a while.  Should I concentrate on a subject I know really well? Me, myself and I? Did I really want to expose myself like that? What about archetypes?  O r portraits? The museum has a lovely quilt made in the 1990's by twelve women from the village. I bet I could make a lovely art quilt based not on the village but on the women who made that quilt. I distracted myself by making a couple of artists books roughly on the theme of Identity. I...

Happy New Year                                                                   If I had thought staying in Ullapool over the festive season would be quiet I couldn't have been more wrong.  Scots do Hogmanay which means  last day of the year and is at least a two day celebration.  Jean Urquhart who started the Ceilidh Place with her husband, actor Robert Urquhart, in the 1970's came to stay for me for a few days over the holidays as the hotel had sold her room! The village was teeming with visitors. Every bed had a body in it.  It was Jean who had instigated the wonderful Not-Christmas feast years ago and was until recently, a Scottish MP. Scotland not only has proportional representation, but MP's do not have to be affiliated to a political party although Jean was elected to the Scottish National...