Samantha Gray

01/02/2026

A new supply of cards has been delivered to the St Magnus Centre and also available in the St Magnus Cathedral ☺️. Ideal for anyone wanting to take home a peedie piece of the cathedral, as each piece of handmade paper contains some red sandstone dust. I swear my house smells of the cathedral when I am making my papers! There are 3 designs, this one is the rose window, I also have the St Magnus cross, and an image of the west doorway. Please pop along to see them! 😃.

20/01/2026

A lovely piece written by Bernie for The Orkney News 😍. I am restocking the St Magnus Centre with my cards this week! There will be some available at the Cathedral just now 😀.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/172zdTqdrD/

If you want to see what stock I have available in relation to the Ness of Brodgar please visit the site link below.

Cards and Prints with a distinct Ness flavour.

07/01/2026

I am back to the stitching today! 😍😀. I love the iridescent thread I use for the green toned pieces, reminds me of the glint of light on the water around Papay 😌🌊💚.

02/01/2026

Happy New Year folks! Thank you for your support in 2025, and here's to a fun, creative, successful 2026! 🤩🎊🎉. Keep an eye out for more Papay trips, creative collabs, exhibitions and new workshops! 😍😌❤.

24/11/2025

I was a visit to the Pier Arts Centre yesterday as its the first weekend of the Christmas Open Exhibition. Lovely to see my two pieces on the wall, the start of my Papay series 😊. What a lot of amazing work to be seen! 😍😮🌟. There are so many talented folk in Orkney.

Please go a visit if you can, it is on till Christmas eve.

24/11/2025

A very enjoyable walk at Mull Head this morning. Great for clearing the head, and mulling over ideas! 😊😌.

21/11/2025

I was having fun yesterday with the gelli plate and a piece of seaweed I picked up in Papay! I love the shape, tree or roots like which appealed to me. There were mixed results as it was diffucult to get it to lie flat to print! Though the bonus was that it looks cool with the paint on it 😍. I am wondering if it's possible to use the seaweed in a mixed media piece, how to preserve?! 🤔🤷‍♀️😆.

14/11/2025

A peedie bit of Papay time 😌❤. Click on the video to get the full view 😀.

12/11/2025

A few Papay pics from my recent jaunt! Getting some final creative bits together for my project. Always lovely to be there 😊. Surprisingly nice enough on the day I arrived to be in a t-shirt on the beach! Decided against getting my toes in the water though 😏😂.

14/10/2025

The finished piece! (I think!). I used an iridescent thread which is unfortunately hard to show in a pic, but gives it another slight shimmer. Handstitching is a lovely calming process (as long as no blood is shed!). I was thinking of my walk to the Knap of Howar on Papay, as the lines represent, as I was doing this. Looking forward to getting back there soon I hope 😌.

10/10/2025

Listening to Enya - Caribbean Blue as I stitch my paper...it should be Papay Green! 🤔😍💚💙🤣🤣.

08/09/2025

An inky experiment to see how I can layer my ideas. Keeping it reasonably simple 😁.