After a day of drawing in the studio space at Sumburgh Head Lighthouse yesterday, today included exploring the remains of a radar hut in the lighthouse grounds (part of Sumburgh Head Admiralty Experimental Station 1) and a GPO (General Post Office) radio station at Scraefield, Quarff from the 1930s/40s (but perhaps constructed in preparation of hostilities).
Read MoreIn the evening (still on the first day of my Shetland residency), I had the opportunity to visit nearby RAF Noss Hill, an Air Ministry Experimental Station (AMES) No 54.
Read MoreA trip up the long road to the radar station at Fitful Head gave panoramic views of the surrounding area, including Sumburgh airfield and the remains of an RAF radar station to the north. Next was a visit to the site of RAF Garth’s Ness, a NATO LORAN A (Long Range Navigation) station.
Read More2nd - 29th August 2015
Read MoreExperiments with monoprint
Read MoreTaking part in Hamish Fulton's Communal Walk, Penzance, 20th October 2013
Read MoreImagined landscape sketch - assembling of places from memory and experience
Read MoreSketch from Shetland
Read MoreResearch into the Japanese aesthetic of ‘waki’
Read MoreUsing darkroom techniques
Read MoreFound this negative hidden amongst a box of old postcards
Read More‘Drawing’ with tea
Read MoreIntroduction to etching
Read MoreDrawing sounds
Read MoreWorking with my proposal title ‘Light and Dark’
Read MoreInvestigating language and art
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