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Read MoreTake This Moment
A new art exhibition is now open at Speldiburn. 'Take this Moment' is an expressive collection of prints, drawings and paintings by Scalloway-based artist Joyce Davies. It features five drawings made this spring in the home of the artist, specifically for this exhibition. It also contains one of Joyce’s earliest prints from 2019, made locally at Gaada, an artist-led workshop in Burra Isle. Also featured is a large monoprint made during an artist-in-residency at Peacocks Visual arts in Aberdeen in 2021. Exploring themes including home, islands, and self-identity, the artist hopes her work inspires a sense of fun and creativity in others. Joyce has exhibited and sold her work internationally. She is self-taught and before she started art and creative writing, she had a career as a Clinical Child Psychologist. Joyce feels being creative is hugely cathartic and living with ill-health hugely influences her practice. She enjoys using colour and often works on a very large scale, influenced by the environment of Shetland. Joyce is spending part of this summer as an Artist-in-Residence in Brighton where as well as printing in an established studio there, she will be teaching mono-printing and giving an artist talk to an international audience. More of Joyce’s art can be seen on her Instagram page @JoyceDaviesArt. The work will be display in the cafe exhibition space until further notice.