Here is a collection of posts showing my drawings in Shetland. Click on the picture or caption to see more.
Shetland 2025 – Escudo, an abandoned car
There’s a walk up to the Verda Stane. From up there you can see for miles, a vast undulating landscape.…
Houses in Shetland – 2025
I sketched some of the characteristic houses on the West side of Shetland. The houses above in Greenland Burraland are…
Sketching coastal rocks in Shetland 2025
There’s so much to sketch in Shetland. I spent a long time by the sea looking at rocks. These pictures…
Postcards from Shetland – July and August 2025
Glorious Shetland! I make postcards when I am there, to communicate what I see. Here are small sketches of the…
Shetland – pigments
It was foggy, cold and wet outside. I made pigments. I collected earth from round about. I know from previous…
Shetland – beach finds
“Stoop and discover the great in the small” Here are beach finds.
Shetland – another vehicle in space
I have posted before about the wrecked cars that I sometimes encounter on my hikes around the Shetland landscape. This…
Shetland landscapes 2024
It was foggy and cold. I practised drawing clouds. Islands in clouds I went for a walk. In the distance…
Foula
Foula is a small island 20 miles off the west coast of mainland Shetland. Shetland is a group of islands…
Urban sketching, Shetland and the journey south 2023
Here is a postcard which I made at the end of a long hot walk. It shows the houses in…
Sketches in Fair Isle 2023
Fair Isle is a small island some 28 miles south of Shetland, between Orkney and Shetland. It is 3 miles…
Shetland collage postcard
Here is a collage postcard I made, inspired by the work of Martin Hicklin. As you see, it shows a…
Sketching in Shetland 2023 – Seal lagoon and swan loch
While I was drawing this picture, I was startled by a loud sneeze. Since I was totally alone on the…
Sketching in Shetland 2023
Here is my Shetland sketchbook: This sketchbook was brilliant because it could fold back onto itself, and I could hold…
Shetland 2022 – Birds
The oystercatchers dig up worms from the grass. I watched them from the window. When I walk along the roads,…
Shetland 2022 – Burrastow
Here is a drawing I made after breakfast: I drew some pictures indoors: A glass of wine: An evening on…
Shetland landscapes 2022
Sketching on the beach out of the wind, I am fascinated by the regular angles in which the rock cleaves.…
Burrastow and the bay
Here’s a view of Burrastow House, Walls, Shetland, as you enter the drive. There was a lively wind. Those clouds…
Lerwick Lodberries
Here is a view of houses in Lerwick known as “lodberries”. They are built into the sea. Lerwick is one…
Abandoned Car, Shetland
Abandoned cars are a feature of the landscape in Shetland. This one is in the initial stages of decay. Here…
Shetland 2021 -scenes from a run
I came back from a run with my head full of images. I put them into pictures. I enjoyed using…
Shetland 2021 – Poppies
These poppies were in the vegetable garden. These poppies were so stunning that I had to try to draw them.…
Shetland 2021 – Fish farm debris
On the coast near a place called Breiwick, The Quilse, there is a heap of strange tubes. These are from…
Shetland 2021 – Burrastow House
Here is Burrastow House near Walls on the West side of Shetland. It was built in 1759. One of the…
Shetland 2021 – Coastal rocks
The rocks on the Shetland west side cleave at a very specific angle. I picked up a pebble on the…
Shetland 2021: Birds
Here is a herring gull. These are numerous and float on the sea as well as fly in the air.…
Shetland 2021 – roads
Shetland roads sweep across the landscape. I enjoy the calligraphic sweep of their curves and the simplicity of the lines…
Sketching on the journey South
On the ferry from Lerwick to Aberdeen I had an “outside” cabin with a window. From there, I had a…
Shetland: Lera Voe phone box
This is the Lera Voe phone box, which is on the road between Burrastow and Walls. The phone box is…
Shetland: Burrastow beach and pier
This is the pier at Burrastow. On the other side, there is a pebbly beach. This is the North Atlantic,…
Shetland: Burrastow House
“On the remote west side of Shetland you can find spectacular scenery, peace and the ideal refuge for the escapist.…
Shetland: vehicles in space
There’s a lot of empty space in Shetland. As I walked around, sometimes I encountered abandoned vehicles. Here is one.…
Shetland: sea and hills
Here is the view from the Historic Site near Pinhoulland. The lines on the right are a mussel farm. Here…
Shetland: walk to the lighthouse
I walked over to the distant headland, called Whites Ness. It was a long walk. The walk round the peninsula…
Shetland: garden flowers
In the polytunnel there is fennel. I learned that you can eat the flowers. They have a very sweet aniseed…
Shetland: Foula on the horizon
Here is a sketch of the mysterious island of Foula. Foula is about 20 miles away from Shetland Mainland, so…
Shetland: Rocks and Headlands
On a long walk to Footabrough, I paused to do a drawing of a distant headland. The drawing shows the…
Shetland: Roads in a landscape
Roads in Shetland trace three-dimensional calligraphy across the landscape. On the West Side, the hills are undulating. The roads loop…
Shetland: Towards Vaila
There’s a beach near Burrastow that looks towards the Island of Vaila. Here’s a sketch I made from the cliffs…
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