Rhona Miller is my next door neighbour, she and her sister Isla run The Knoydart Pottery and Tearoom. It is a very special place to have here on Knoydart, like stepping into a cute french film. There is lots of bunting and pretty handmade things, not just pottery and cakes, but monkeys made from scrap…

Art exists to tell the truth about the human condition today we are all isolated by electronics we are lonely lost without human contact here by a remote Scottish loch on the edge of Britain’s last wilderness, a small, lone blonde film artist reminds us of ourselves. PWD

  I received these pictures and text yesterday from Rick Rohde in South Africa. There is something compelling about Vytjie’s photographs, particularly as she has been taking them over many years and I would love to see more, particularly her self portraits. I’m also really interested in Rick’s project giving cameras to young people because…

Stuart Watson sent me the following email for inclusion in this blog.  He is right to say that this blog is like a live notebook for a work in progress, which is very much how I see it. A virtual way of discussion and exploring the ideas behind the work. ‘Describing this with words seems…

I’ve been getting lots of messages and interest in the film since Monday and it may well reach a larger audience as a result of all the press coverage (increasing it’s value for the tax payers money even more, if you see it that way!), I hope so. I am going to write more about…

A few months ago I wrote about the range of reponses I was having to this project and invited people to submit a response artistic or otherwise see creating a living notebook. In one of the posts below is a lovely drawing by Mia who is aged 8. This was partly because I am working…