Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, 8-22 October 2003

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 11 October 2003-11 January 2004

So what went on when a group of international artists gathered at Taigh Chearsabhagh in Lewis in September to participate in Còmhla – North Uist International Artists Workshop? Many strange things, it seems, if this mysterious missive to the Arts Journal is anything to go by…

JEAN NOBLE discusses her Cycle of the Trees of Life exhibition at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery

DONALD McKENZIE gives a preview of his up-and-coming exhibition at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness

Room 13 is a classroom with a difference. FRANCES McLEOD reports on the unique artistic activites at Caol Primary School in Lochaber, where the pupils are firmly in charge.

Shetland artist ROXANE PERMAR describes the process of creating The Encyclopedia of Knitted Stories in St Petersburg, and a new website telling the stories in digital form.

An Lanntair, Stornoway, 6 September-4 October 2003

North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Caithness, 6-7 September 2003

ANN DAVIDSON outlines the work on show in her exhibition of Paper Collage Abstracted Landscapes of Sutherland and Iceland and Photographs of Iceland at the Timespan Gallery