news round up

• Russia trip features on Hi-Arts website.
• starting in October I will be tutoring a painting course in lochcarron on behalf of the Skye & Wester Ross College ( subject to numbers ) details here
• the Lochcarron Tuesday Art group is taking a break during August while everyone is busy.
• Mosaic panel 2 is finished;
  
• Been gathering Willow for dreamcatcher/ recycled textile workshops Friday & Saturday at the Housing Expo . Doubled up this task with helping out at the Smithy heritage centre where the grounds have been sadly neglected over the last 5 years. The new committee have plans to get the project all back up and running again, so Rich, the dog and I went to help out by wrestling the overgrown willow dome back into shape. I now have a giant pile of willow to strip, no jokes about 'strip the willow' please.

• Also nearly finished the first big canvas painting a couple of tweaks & starting the next one.
• this time next week on our way to Russia! you should see the list of work I have to finish before then !