Nick Ross is product and furniture designer from Inverness, he has been participating in Making Progress 2011 – a HI-Arts mentoring project for mid career makers as part of the HI-Arts Craft Development programme . Nick’s exhibition ‘Domestic Selections’ opens this weekend at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery and then runs from 4 June – […]

Understanding your audience will help you to think about what you are doing, why you are doing it, who you are engaging and what your message should be to get people to pay attention.

Back in 2003, when controversy was raging about the proposed transfer of the HQ of Scottish Natural Heritage from Edinburgh to Inverness, it was said that some SNH employees were objecting to the move on the grounds of the lack of culture in Scotland’s newest city. Well, that’s a charge that would be hard to […]

Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, until 2 July 2011.

Up till now I’ve always found it easy to blog about our travels, and so had assumed that there would be nowhere that I couldn’t find something interesting to write about. But Berlin has nearly defeated me. So many people have already written so much about this extraordinary city, and after this, our first visit, […]

The HI-Arts Craft Development Summer maker event ‘Selling the Sizzle’ on Friday 3 June has something for everyone with an inspiring range of speakers all exploring the selling of craft.

Highlands Open Studio (HOS) members are poised to welcome visitors – with their 2011 Calendar of Events having been distributed around the Highlands, logos prominently displayed at their premises, and car stickers adorning vehicles, members of the public can’t miss the message that Highlands Open Studio members are open for business!

A half day drumming and percussion workshop led by Carol Scorer is taking place at Newbold House in Forres on Sunday 1st May 2011.

Hi, I’m Robert, and I’m a cultural omnivore. There is, I fear, no cure. I came across this useful term recently on an American website .  Cultural Omnivores, it seems, are those who regularly participate in a wide range of cultural activities, making little distinction been ‘high’ and ‘low ‘culture. Cultural Omnivorism is associated with […]

Plockton based Jewellery Designer, Gilly Langton has launched two new jewellery courses for 2011.