Alison Munro discusses his work with visual artist Ian Westacott.

Highland Perthshire’s first Fire and Ice Festival culminated in a spectacular finale on Saturday evening at the Scottish Crannog Centre after a harrowing week of disruptions caused by the early onslaught of winter.

Artist Sue Jane Taylor looks back on a the first decade of the A’Chraobh project in Borgie Forest.

This October 2010 we talk to Joanne B Kaar, a paper artist who lives and works in Caithness. She tells us about her recent visit to South Korea and her attendance at the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists Congress which took place in September 2010.

MANDY HAGGITH enjoys a good yarn with wool dyer Helen Lockhart.

Two Highland-based artists were guests at an International Art Symposium in Russia.

GILES SUTHERLAND reflects on the work of artist Ruth Macdougall in Sutherland.

In July 2010 Patricia Shone participated in a 7 day course on ‘Japanese ceramics and Kiln Firing’ at Higham Hall in Cumbria.

This September 2010 we talk to recently graduated Shetland designers whose work is taking Shetland textiles forward into the 21st century.

MANDY HAGGITH profiles the work of Assynt-based jewellery designer and maker Barbara Macleod