Northings | Helen Lockhart | Friends Activity http://northings.com/members/helenlockhart/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Helen Lockhart's friends. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:04:10 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=2.2.5 en-US 30 hourly 2 2bec51079dca26785ff74b7e8444ae21 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Printmaking, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/03/19/lasting-impressions-contemporary-printmaking/ Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:43:26 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 14 April 2013
THE CHAIR of An Talla Solais, Dave Falconer, has been working towards this exhibition for years.

IT CELEBRATES the art of the print, by showcasing work produced […]

]]> 0 1393bb8e7e4b609699c0ef54e2060024 Bogbain Farm and Barry Gordon are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/15684/ Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:15:41 +0000 0 4ede172a37c4aeafd1f93ae590176ca2 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, The Art of Decoration, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/10/01/the-art-of-decoration/ Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:10:08 +0000 ThumbnailMandy Haggith explores the mix of art, craft and business at Highland Stoneware
HIGHLAND Stoneware is a unique company that supports the livelihoods of a cluster of artists in the northwest Highands.

THE […]

]]> 0 a44ea26ac5f4a46256fb76cb98010697 Bogbain Farm and Eleanor Carlingford are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/10065/ Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:27:44 +0000 0 8fbf37dd71f72977fd816e8c6f7e970a Bogbain Farm and Alice Strange are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/9619/ Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:53:30 +0000 0 ac3aa2b3d52c57667a2a34db0a408e1a Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Where Two Tides Meet, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/08/19/where-two-tides-meet-2/ Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:16:11 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 9 September 2012
AN Talla Solais is so full of the sea, with two exhibitions on maritime themes, you can almost smell the salt and hear the spray.

AFTER the success of their […]

]]> 0 fd60af0317181404e475aa40a77ce876 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Katy Spong: 37 Red Leaves, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/08/02/katy-spong-37-red-leaves/ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:42:08 +0000 ThumbnailRhueArt, Rhue, near Ullapool, until 15 September 2012
KATY Spong has spent a year taking in the views from her Argyll home, overlooking Cuil Bay, and creating from them a visual diary.

IN IT she has recorded […]

]]> 0 e62cb5d9eb7c4250fd676fc0766b162a Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Angus – Weaver of Grass, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/07/21/angus-weaver-of-grass/ Sat, 21 Jul 2012 09:25:09 +0000 ThumbnailMacphail Centre, Ullapool, 19 July 2012, and touring
IF YOU see one piece of theatre this year, see this.

IT IS a compassionate performance, telling the life story of Angus MacPhee, who was born and died on […]

]]> 0 d98e9a1fd4c6195d377b99ddc3294a5d Bogbain Farm and Mayanne MacGregor are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/8986/ Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:34:20 +0000 0 038618a88f3fe13fab2a1cfa645ff7a5 Bogbain Farm and Moira Aitken are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/8804/ Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:21:18 +0000 0 d1140b64f4532df2b3933b010a640fa8 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, An Leabhar Mor and LK243 UnderSail , on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/05/14/an-leabhar-mor-and-lk243-undersail/ Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:55:55 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 20 May 2012
THE TALL SHIPS are back in Ullapool, or it seems that way, thanks to an exhibition called LK243 Undersail at An Talla Solais, which evokes the 2011 race from Waterford […]

]]> 0 be544d38d12526395c2bb4c1ee01aaed Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Matching Loch Shiel's Grandeur in Music, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/06/01/matching-loch-shiels-grandeur-in-music/ Mon, 28 May 2012 15:47:49 +0000 ThumbnailViolinist Charles Mutter is artistic director of the Loch Shiel Spring Festival.
THIS unique festival is set amongst the stunning scenery around Loch Shiel, west of Fort William, and Charles says his aim is to […]

]]> 0 84d1bc24fd9d571de781e00e2c90aa4d Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Reach and Impressions, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/05/28/reach-and-impressions/ Mon, 28 May 2012 11:44:08 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 17 June 2012.
IT IS hard to imagine two more different forms of art being exhibited together than the two shows currently on display at An Talla Solais.

TWO rooms are filled […]

]]> 0 83b9df03e37f9b8ee5a5c7cf88582f42 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Ullapool Book Festival 2012, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/05/17/ullapool-book-festival-2012/ Thu, 17 May 2012 17:19:59 +0000 ThumbnailUllapool Book Festival, Ullapool, 11-13 May 2012
THIS year’s Ullapool Book Festival featured an impressive list of Scotland’s best writers: John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Aonghas MacNeacail, Mairi Hedderwick, Roger […]

]]> 0 61f79c4a426ca905e9b484cc6ed8c221 Mandy Haggith commented on the post, Empty Vessels Full of Questions, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/03/07/empty-vessels-full-of-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-2880 Thu, 10 May 2012 10:23:28 +0000 Thanks Lorraine!

]]> 077466a003a7c3a25f71fe55cb4986f5 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, The Woodsman - Mike Ellis, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/10/the-woodsman-mike-ellis/ Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:08:15 +0000 ThumbnailMandy Haggith catches up with the traditional woodland crafts practised by Mike Ellis
MOST of the crafts people I have interviewed are keen to be thought of as artists, so it is interesting to meet someone who […]

]]> 0 fdf4f9d9f9dc933221003ded67591229 Mandy Haggith commented on the post, Alan Beavitt: Physicist of Fiddles, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/02/01/alan-beavitt-physicist-of-fiddles/comment-page-1/#comment-2290 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:39:20 +0000 Hi Michael – he must be a fab grandfather to have! The website’s been updated now, thanks for that link.

]]> d30cbb18019fef7f7bbfa8d921a4b688 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Empty Vessels Full of Questions, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/03/07/empty-vessels-full-of-questions/ Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:42:35 +0000 ThumbnailMandy Haggith delves into some deep questions with artist Peter White THERE IS something instantly recognisable about Peter White’s paintings of empty bowls, open books and garments billowing without wearers. In the absences he creates, his presence is unmistakeable. HE MAKES these often huge paintings in his studio in Ullapool, where, he says,…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bbf4297ff3c8524a2262c6636ec734a Bogbain Farm and Judi Sutherland are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/6947/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:01:54 +0000 0 dd12cef6e5dcc71789b0417fc0b172ee Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Alan Beavitt: Physicist of Fiddles, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/02/01/alan-beavitt-physicist-of-fiddles/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:15:52 +0000 ThumbnailMandy Haggith investigates the violin maker’s art on Scoraig HOW many pieces of wood does a violin contain? I’M asked this question by violin maker Alan Beavitt when I visit him on his remote croft in Wester Ross. I guess, and I’m wildly wrong. Is your guess any better? Alan Beavitt made his first violin when he […]

]]> 0 868b2a1d54336602f0ed000e4729ca3a Bogbain Farm and Brian O hEadhra are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/6895/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:06:09 +0000 0 db63ec8ec6b11e759c99108a87efd7c6 Mandy Haggith commented on the post, A-B-Tree: Celebrating Scotland's Literary Tree Tradition - End Of Phase 1, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/18/a-b-tree-celebrating-scotlands-literary-tree-tradition-end-of-phase-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1726 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:07:43 +0000 Sorry to be slow responding to this, I only just spotted it was here. Yes, I’d love to learn more about the Legacy Tree project. Please drop me an email on hag@worldforests.org The best way to be kept up to date with the A-B-Tree project is to like it on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/ABTreeProject) Throughout December I’m […]

]]> 92460076a4d44da71cd47478be971b0e Mandy Haggith commented on the post, James Hawkins: Making the Landscape Sing, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/01/james-hawkins-making-the-landscape-sing/comment-page-1/#comment-1691 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:34:31 +0000 Thanks, and I’m glad you think I’ve done James justice. I found him fascinating to listen to.

]]> 6d96fefb04b8c08899b5b027ce193d60 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Lustre, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/21/lustre/ Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:20:36 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 18 December 2011 AT THIS time of year there is usually a members’ show at An Talla Solais in Ullapool. This year they called for 3D objects, and the result, called Lustre, is a small but pleasing exhibition of sculpture and craft work. A few big pieces dominate the space. Up on one wall, […]

]]> 0 eb0f33e7690649b2ed3632bf855c8c22 Bogbain Farm and lindsaydunbar are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/6396/ Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:59:19 +0000 0 662f8c08f060b47313acff9358c58941 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, James Graham, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/15/james-graham/ Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:56:11 +0000 ThumbnailJames Graham, Drumbeg Village Hall, 12 November 2011 It was standing room only in Drumbeg Village Hall on Saturday night, as people crushed in to hear James Graham performing songs from Assynt. It was an intimate performance, giving what James called ‘an airing’ to a crucial aspect of the local area’s heritage. When James studied Gaelic song […]

]]> 0 9aa8651f4f382a68f33b2cb4179d2c93 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Dark Matter, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/03/dark-matter/ Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:49:41 +0000 ThumbnailA Garden in Ullapool, 2 November 2011 A POSSE of black-caped figures, heading for a shadowy garden, intent on something. Hallowe’en mischief perhaps? A Batman tribute event?  No, this was a theatre audience, making its way through the streets of Ullapool to the venue for an outdoor performance, subtitled ‘Murder in the Garden of Love’. The […]

]]> 0 741fa4bda37d40d9ce2778ad4a54a6af Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, James Hawkins: Making the Landscape Sing, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/01/james-hawkins-making-the-landscape-sing/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:30:34 +0000 ThumbnailAPPROACHING James Hawkins’ croft at Rhue, near Ullapool, the crests of waves are streaking the water as a gale hurtles onto the shore of Loch Broom. INSIDE the studio and gallery space, big landscape paintings celebrate such drama. I am surprised to find James seeming serene, his voice quiet, his explanations lucid and even. His studio is […]

]]> 0 1d2f7b1cc9fba591df29390dc8d27083 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Four Views, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/10/11/four-views/ Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:06:40 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 16 October 2011 FOUR VIEWS is an exhibition of work by four artists with connections to Ullapool. The veteran of the four is Dick Lindsay, who presents pieces from throughout his long life. Although Dick’s early pictures show that he had talent as a young man, he did not take his art […]

]]> 0 df6533c2caa9cd4b3256daf5eadf72c8 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Ceramic Artist with a Living Canvas, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/12/ceramic-artist-with-a-living-canvas/ Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:12:29 +0000 ThumbnailLOTTE GLOB was born in Denmark but has spent most of her life in the top left corner of Scotland. “I WAS transplanted here from Denmark a long time ago and I have grown very deep roots,” she says. HER croft in Laid, overlooking Loch Eriboll, is a tumult of flowers and lush growth, with fruit hanging […]

]]> 0 4b7f2bab3cb4303092166f86a0adeff2 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Painting With Smoke, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/11/painting-with-smoke-2/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:19:26 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 25 September 2011 WHY are pots so much cheaper than paintings? Put it another way, why is the art of a painter considered so much more valuable than that of a ceramicist? An Talla Solais is currently filled with ceramic art demonstrating without question that this is a medium rich in form, […]

]]> 0 244eadd44b089ed70210ccbc0a6869b9 Bogbain Farm and Shirley Buchan are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/5578/ Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:10:27 +0000 0 745278cda72fde8a433f62b34cf06a5f Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, James Lumsden: Paintings, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/08/08/james-lumsden-paintings/ Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:27:31 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 29 August 2011 I ENTER the exhibition of James Lumsden’s paintings, knowing that the walls will be filled with nothing more than blocks of colour, fully expecting to be baffled. I leave, to coin a cliché, enlightened. I had assumed that for an artist to shun depiction and work in purely abstract […]

]]> 0 c65521042603f4fe236fe468f8c1f272 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Johnny Ross: Maintaining An Ancient Craft, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/08/01/johnny-ross-maintaining-an-ancient-craft/ Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:30:15 +0000 ThumbnailMANDY HAGGITH investigates the ‘horn craft’ of JOHNNY ROSS THE landscape of West Sutherland is among the most dramatic in Scotland, and Johnny Ross’s home looks out to one of its most exquisite views, up the ice-carved glen across Loch Glencoull to the tallest waterfall in Britain, Eas a Chual Aluinn, and onwards to the craggy Assynt mountains. […]

]]> 0 e133f050afd76ed599f7965e9825d1d2 Bogbain Farm and Katherine Webster are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/5347/ Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:13:04 +0000 0 2803c7ac2951f3ec5344f3dc425d53d5 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Fleet, Westland and Jason Hicklin, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/07/12/fleet-westland-and-jason-hicklin/ Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:15:22 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 31 July 2011 TALL Ships are due to arrive in Ullapool next weekend (from 15 July 2011) on their way to Shetland, but the celebrations have already begun at An Talla Solais, with a flotilla of small ships, created by members of the community and friends of the art centre. The small […]

]]> 0 58ee4b2fc282d1497ce926fa1f617aa2 Mandy Haggith commented on the post, HI-wireless: Shaman in the Kitchen, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/07/01/hi-wireless-shaman-in-the-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-1122 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:14:21 +0000 prrrrr!

]]> e513d0e68c9d65aba97195c95dd3770b Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Carved, Modelled and Cast, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/06/14/carved-modelled-and-cast/ Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:45:11 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 3 July 2011 AS I drove south to see the opening of the latest exhibition at an talla solais, I witnessed a spectacular double rainbow arching between Quinag and Loch Assynt. On the way back, the sunset was a blaze of molten bronze over Ben Mor Coigach, casting spotlights on Elphin […]

]]> 0 26044938663ccb26fb2f1414c2d4d128 Bogbain Farm and Cherry Ambrose are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/5043/ Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:40:38 +0000 0 f276185fd5126423526fb67e476e6536 Bogbain Farm and Peter Urpeth are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/4982/ Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:57:40 +0000 0 52fd7cfd7255edca14c1e7df43c2e28f Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, The Mysterious Death of Netta Fornario, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/06/01/the-mysterious-death-of-netta-fornario/ Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:52:54 +0000 ThumbnailVillage Hall, Lochinver, 31 May 2011 EVEN before Chris Lee’s play begins, the atmosphere is unsettling. There is something weird happening, a quiet muttering in the background and an eerie light on the simple set. Then it is underway. It is the 1920s. A doctor injects himself with morphine in a guest house bedroom on Iona, confessing […]

]]> 0 b9163cdf56de9f913da7ae5a8d38f3bb Bogbain Farm and are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/4926/ Fri, 27 May 2011 11:10:24 +0000 0 edb53b780253a4fb60df97aecb718a90 Bogbain Farm and Catherine Turnbull are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/4892/ Sun, 22 May 2011 22:56:33 +0000 0 e530686713f2636e3eb52790a11c32a4 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, West Coast Open 2011, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/05/15/west-coast-open-2011/ Sun, 15 May 2011 20:34:35 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 5 June 2011 THE West Coast Open exhibition at An Talla Solais shows the Ullapool gallery at its most community-minded. Submission to the show is open to anyone, and for this year all those who put work in have at least one piece displayed (although that is not policy – all work […]

]]> 0 9301ab3634e27b0f8e322fc79a601975 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Ullapool Book Festival, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/05/10/ullapool-book-festival/ Tue, 10 May 2011 14:41:16 +0000 ThumbnailVillage Hall and other venues, Ullapool, 6-8 May 2011 WRITING a review of the Ullapool Book Festival feels a bit like trying to make dried whisky. How can a weekend of words – erudite, funny, moving, infuriating, delightful and wise – be distilled into a few paragraphs? From the warm wit of Denise Mina, who opened the […]

]]> 0 a938484b01ec1f8669b4b2306c9932ec Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Eva Lambert: Wool from East and West, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/05/06/eva-lambert-wool-from-east-and-west/ Fri, 06 May 2011 11:41:54 +0000 ThumbnailBEFORE long, the meadowsweet will be blooming on the shores of Loch Dunvegan and Eva Lambert will be down there gathering it in. Boiling up not only flowers and leaves, she will make with it the first of the summer season’s yellow dyes. Later, she will move onto the bright yellow umbels of tansy, and later still […]

]]> 0 abe657fdff8a843a1359dc42523688fd Bogbain Farm and are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/4710/ Wed, 04 May 2011 10:13:51 +0000 0 5bc0c10cb4be76628798d62a82ce17ad Bogbain Farm and are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/4375/ Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:17:07 +0000 0 51f77fbc28e71b4f95ca3e7c2ad3cf33 Mandy Haggith wrote a new post, Retrace, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/04/18/retrace/ Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:22:14 +0000 ThumbnailAn Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 8 May 2011 FIVE young artists have retraced their steps to Ullapool to create a vital and varied exhibition of painting, collage, animated film, environmental installation and illustrations, at An Talla Solais. The artists studied together with Eleanor White at Bridge House Art during 2006, producing portfolios…[Read more]

]]> 0 95439284a11afbc7fa94edf7aaaeba07 Bogbain Farm and are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/4194/ Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:16:03 +0000 0