Sea Trout 2

Sea Trout 2

Sea Trout 2 2024Woodcut ENQUIRE In honour and memory of the sea trout shoals of old that once swam around the coast of Shetland that are now mostly gone. Lost to greed and profit. Fish are for the most part out of sight and therefore out of mind leaving them wide open...
Snowdrops

Snowdrops

Snowdrops 2024Woodcut ENQUIRE Every year I have looked at these beautiful little glowing white flowers with a kind of longing. An inner need to somehow connect with them, to draw them and to celebrate them but more often than not I’m racing out the door doing the...
Snowbuntings

Snowbuntings

Snowbuntings 2024Woodcut ENQUIRE In the northern hemisphere the intensity of the darkness on the human psyche that is starved of light for months on end is intense, and any glimmer of light is thirstily drunk in. Here a flock of snow buntings appear bringing remnants...
Dream of the Solans

Dream of the Solans

Dream of the Solans 2024Woodcut ENQUIRE Avian influenza, which has been decimating bird colonies throughout Shetland and gannets in particular have been hit very hard. Beaches are littered with dead and dying birds, and cliffs that should be teeming with the noisy...