NORTHINGS is delighted to be working with Lewis poet and visual artist IAN STEPHEN on an exciting project to host a daily Log from his latest artistic voyage on his yacht, the El Vigo.

Glassmakers NICKY BURNS and BRODIE NAIRN have made their home in a windswept corner of Caithness. John Burns talks to them about their fascination with glass and their globe-trotting lifestyle.

Orkney-based photographer GUNNIE MOBERG is among the artists selected to make new work to hang in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. ALISTAIR PEEBLES investigates her work among the people and landscapes of the Northern Isles.

The Arts Journal profiles DÒCHAS, one of the top young bands on the Scottish folk scene

Inverness-born composer STUART MACRAE has just completed a five-year Composer-in-Association contract with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He reflects on that experience, and on his new piece for the Scottish Ensemble.

Venue profile: Hootananny, Inverness

The Arts Journal interviews writer and painter, JOHN BYRNE

ALYTH McCORMACK tells the Arts Journal about her dual career in the performing arts.

FIONA MACKENZIE, the Mairi Mhor Gaelic Song Fellow, recently had the chance to visit Estonia, and naturally she was determined to take Gaelic song with her.

The Arts should be part of the national infrastructure, like education, health and roads, and funded accordingly. So argues poet and writer AONGHAS MacNEACAIL as he casts an eye over the current furore surrounding funding the arts and cultural policy.