Artist and musician Sarah McWhinney led a life drawing session at Basic Mountain studio. We engaged in short and long exercises to capture shape and movement, experimenting with graphite, charcoal and ink as mediums.
Category: Shared Interests
A visit to Tramway
We travelled to Tramway in Glasgow to see Pia Camil and Robert Anton’s Exhibitions. While Camil’s show was an immersive installation inviting viewers to physically engage with it- Anton’s work was more enigmatic and intimate: Both exhibitions were interesting in terms of how the artists used ready made, disposed of material and up cycled it…
Fishing in Cramond 13 May 2019
We were out and about on a beautiful sunny day to try our luck fishing in Cramond. While some of us chose to stay on the shore-Others got their waders on and ventured into the river! Alex was in his element as usual. So was Franco who even managed a catch! We enjoyed the beautiful…
First Green Court event, 16th June 2019
Green Court was initiated by Luke Padfield and has been developed with support from Artlink, UN House Scotland and Scottish Environment Link. The Green Court is an improvised, interactive, moot environmental court. We discuss fictional examples of environmental issues based on real-life situations in a mock courtroom setting. This first session of the Green Court…
Soul Food Sisters collaboration
As part of our women’s group; Yvonne, Adele, Vic, Chelley, Archane, Dorothy, Anna, Maggie, Fiona, Sue, Anne and Annabel wanted to come together around their shared interest in expanding their culinary knowledge, keenness to share skills and interesting stories in social and relaxed settings. We approached Soul Food Sisters in Glasgow as their ethos matched…
Outdoor Sketching & Meeting like-minded Folk
We like to frequently take ourselves out of the studio to sketch outdoors, meet others and chat ideas while on walks in the great outdoors. Here’s one day’s adventures on Blackford Hill, The Royal Observatory and Hermitage of Braid Local Nature Reserve. We came across The Lodge Coffee House whose owners were super friendly, gave…
Songwriting in the Studio
The studio is our base to test out ideas. Here are Lee & Peter jamming and creating song writing ideas and performing their latest creation entitled East Marseilles.
Common Play with Seasons
Season’s Project, a mental health and support organisation came along to our Common Play Exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art and loved what we were doing. They share similar interests, so we asked them to join us in our studio to get a flavour of what we get up to. We experimented with cyanotype photography…