From the Art Hut – a large expression of colour
By Jeanne Bouza Rose For me, the mystery of the Ness is the story of what the people were doing there. During all the years I worked at the dig shop or in finds,...
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From the Art Hut – connecting…
By Diane Eagles Owing to the dig being cancelled this year because of Covid restrictions, I moved my residency to daily Instagram posts. I had been working on ideas for the residency during the...
From the Art Hut – in it for the long haul
By Karen Wallis As this is my last blog for the virtual dig diary, I’m going to take a look back over the whole of my residency to date. The picture above was my...
From the Art Hut – finding finds…
By Karen Wallis During my first season as Artist in Residence, I was impressed by the range of what could be termed a “find” – from decorated stone on the walls, through the many...
From the Art Hut – the weather is part of the team…
By Karen Wallis This watercolour of incoming clouds represents my love affair with Orkney skies, together with weather, as a constant feature of the excavations. On my first day as an Artist in Residence,...
From the Art Hut – Hooked on the Neolithic
By Jeanne Bouza Rose In the early 2000s, I got hooked on the Neolithic at the Ness. In 2012, both supplies and volunteers were in short supply. That is hard to imagine now that...
From the Art Hut – it’s all about people
By Karen Wallis My work is about human activity, whereas the focus at the Ness is on the evidence provided by objects – either the finds themselves or the structure of the buildings. When I...
From the Art Hut – How and why the Ness and the Neolithic are in my paintings
By Jeanne Bouza Rose I was leaving the heat of New York State and coming to Orkney for my summer holidays sometime in the early 2000s, having been drawn into the landscape after my...
From the Art Hut – the permanence of pigments
By Karen Wallis On July 17, 2018, I made this oil painting of Marc excavating a hearth in Structure One. The colour of the deposits was extremely rich and varied. I had already attempted...
From the Art Hut – looking back…
By Karen Wallis On July 5, 2018, I paid my first visit to Trench Y. Mike Copper and his team were searching for the enclosure wall beside the Stenness loch. My interest was caught...