Shetland Museum, Lerwick, until Friday 6 August 2004

Newtonmore-based artist JEAN NOBLE seeks to create an aura of mystery and imagination in her paintings.

Moray College, Elgin, 11-18 June 2004

Youth Editor ANDREA MUIR discovers how New Media Artist in Residence GAVIN LOCKHART is bringing conceptual art to the young people of Merkinch

ANDREA MUIR finds that visual artist MICHAEL FORBES has thrived in the do-it-yourself school of art education

GILES SUTHERLAND reports on a new project aimed at helping revitalise the historic Pulteneytown area of Wick through new building and a community arts project led by artist Sue Jane Taylor

Visual Artist JULIE BROOK has been working on Mingulay, where she has focussed her attention on the cliffs and stacks on the west coast.

Inverness Art Gallery and Museum until 22 May 2004

Visual artist OLWEN SHONE travelled to Bangalore, and discovered a world far removed from – and yet connected to – her home ground in North Uist, where the project began

ANNIE COOMBER sets the scene for a reprise of last year’s inaugural Skye and Lochalsh Open Studio Trail in May