MORAG MACINNES sat down over lunch with Alistair Peebles and Dr Laura Watts to chew over a new handbook that attempts to imagine futures for Orkney

IAN STEPHEN considers the artistic resonances throw up by this thought-provoking exhibition.

TINA ROSE catches up with some Highland craft makers exhibiting at two major London shows

Castle Gallery, Inverness, until 24 October 2009

An Talla Solais, The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool High School and Ferry Terminal, Ullapool, until 16 October 2009

Timespan, Helmsdale, until 25 October 2009

SIAN JAMIESON reports from HI-Arts latest Makers’ Days event on Orkney.

GEORGINA COBURN speaks to Highland Print Studio Director Alison McMenemy and Studio Manager John McNaught about their much-anticipated return to their newly refurbished premises in Bank Street

MORAG MACINNES finds quiet at the core of the work of Thomas and Laurie Clark.

MORAG MACINNES investigates Roger Ackling’s recent work on Orkney.