David's tools

Word Games

Window Stout Whale Pencil Navigation Chemistry Conkers Lassie Clockwork-MousecMidge Ant Minke-Whale Swordfish Puffin Island Goat-suasgae Small-batch Beer Monarch-of-the-Glen Haggis The-Periodic-Table Small-batch(again) Beach Elements Fionnphort Stone Seaweed Parallelogram Water Puffin(again) Sheep Mast Seeweed Word Swimming-hats Rust John-Faithfull Seal Seaweed (again)

 Evening games include the compulsive card game 'President' (co David A) where the plebs battle for supremacy against all the odds and with absolutely no chance of success.
Other games include 'Spoons', 'S.head', 'Backgammon', 'Racing Demon' and various word games, co Calum and Imi.

CLAY

The artists use local clay from Joan Faithfull's studio to make various effigies and forms.

CALUM

Calum takes his finished walked  canvas to the quarry.

Departing Tormore

The artists head off - Jon heads off back to Lewis and David heads for Edinburgh via Oban and the local distillery there.

Friday BBQ

Final bbq on Tormore beach with local guests Jane and Sandy Brunton and local yoga instructor Zoe from Fionnphort. Great cake too from Jane with (w)ORD icing!
Mammoth boules on beach, Jon wins opening event with final showdown between Calum and Scottsh David.
Great bbq from tonight's master chef for the night Norwegian David.
Evening rounded off around the fire with Calum's extraordinary seven minute Turtle Tale/joke.

Night Fishing off Hen Point

Marit, Randi, Jon and Davd head out in the 'Sardine' for a spot of night fishing.
No mackerel yet but two saithe landed off 'Hen Point' amidst a fantastic sunset.

Swim Walk

Co-curator Imi Maufe leads the artists on a Swim Walk from original arrival point in the old Tormore quarry to the nearby beach passing through several significant points in the week's ebb and flow.
Swim hats all supplied by Imi are screen-printed vinyl in a limited edition, currently showing with other work in her solo show 'Translating Travels' at  Edinburgh Printmakers.
Her Edinburgh Swim Walk is on the 16th of June from Union Street to the Union Canal the site of EP"s new print studio.

Tireragan

Ranger Emily Wilkins from Mull and Iona Ranger Service, South Mull, Iona, Burg and Staffa NNR takes the artists on a walk towards the ruined village of Tireragan, a legacy of the Highland Clearances, and a massive ancient oak tree clinging to a hollow in the landscape.

CreActivity Day

The Artists head off to explore, some to the moors and some to a quiet corner to confer.

Calum makes a walking drawing.

Iona

Geologist John Faithfull from the Hunterian, Glasgow takes us via the Machair to the south end of Iona to Columba's Bay and the Marble Quarry  on a geological Field Trip.