CLOSE MENU
  • Home
  • Gallery
    • Glacial Narratives: Cracks in the Ice
    • Current Work
    • Previous Work
  • Biography
    • Artist
    • Art Teacher
    • Community Arts
  • Blog
    • Skagastrond 2016
    • Finland 2015
    • Iceland 2014
  • Contact
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

mary waltersmary walters

artist

MENU
Home > Blog > First post

First post

Published: 4th June 2016

SO – Iceland again. I arrived from Edinburgh where it was blazing sunshine to a Reykjavik which was being blitzed by horizontal rain and icy winds. Aaaaagh! Is this what is to be?

Wind and rain

driving from Keflavik to Reykjavik – heart sinks!

An evening with my Icelandic friends drinking wonderful single malt made me feel a lot better – and then the following morning I caught the bus to Blonduos in the North. Fairly standard journey with not a lot to see of the Iceland I long for, with its dramatic mountains and snow patches and endless blue skies….but these soon appeared – landed in Skagastrond – the end of the journey for the moment, thanks to a lift from fellow artist Sandi.

Skagastrond is much more open and airy than Listhus in Olafsfjordur where I spent the summer of 2014 – as of course I am now on the west coast of the peninsula and therefore face out to the West, with no towering mountains to block the views of the open seas and skies.

Open sea and sky

Open sea and sky

Open sea and sky

The house is wonderful, the studio is spacious and warm and more importantly, the fellow artists are a wonderful friendly bunch of talented artists working in such a variety of disciplines. So let’s see what I can do in this environment with no pressure of work or pressure of anything at all!

Our house at Fellsbraut

the house for 8 of us

Residency space

the studio for all of us – a converted herring factory.

Filed Under: Blog, Skagastrond 2016

« Previous: And finally:
Next: What its like late at night… »

Jaijiel Creative logo
Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy
Copyright © 2023 Mary Walters
All Rights Reserved