https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue daily 0.75 2025-07-18 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/2025/7/18/illustrator-and-market-gardener-in-training-drawing-moments-of-growth monthly 0.5 2025-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1753460993622-K8XHNE3BTE2O7PMBP98F/IMG_2776.jpg Journal - Illustrator and now *market gardener in training*! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1753460995342-V9CFXYFZ1M7NNN21YUVC/IMG_2777.jpg Journal - Illustrator and now *market gardener in training*! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1753461007066-28W6ECHOUXIAMMOZG4P1/IMG_2778.jpg Journal - Illustrator and now *market gardener in training*! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1753461008521-OVAI8STOXFND24N0A1RJ/IMG_2779.jpg Journal - Illustrator and now *market gardener in training*! https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/its-always-been-more-about-the-people-than-the-fishing-two-weeks-with-the-fisher-community-in-arbroath-scotland monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752860895121-0VD2K8YQ5NPSEOWDG2J0/Screenshot+2025-07-18+at+11.18.50.png Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752860896300-77INJDCXQFMXVLMWZDTY/Screenshot+2025-07-18+at+11.18.59.png Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752860903689-60G3HY37B1W3A63WAXYY/Screenshot+2025-07-18+at+11.19.09.png Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752860906312-413V1YZ9Q7HA8BC2460P/Screenshot+2025-07-18+at+11.19.18.png Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752860909328-Q3Q9NP8JJEOAH255JPHN/Screenshot+2025-07-18+at+11.19.28.png Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752860278424-OZ90DGCULLKW20900B82/IMG_0258.jpg Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland Studies for the project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752860278723-HX6FSRQLZAM9XGRHBGVC/IMG_9440.jpg Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752860287442-V3A9UWBOKZX5N9WHSUIL/IMG_9515.jpg Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752860286731-JN46ZR73YFH6S7WWLG7N/IMG_9695.jpg Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752860291521-TGQ0F6VBKHPIUI377M07/IMG_9803.jpg Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1752866944689-JBX730KW1ZHKLWVF3H4U/IMG_9460.jpg Journal - "It's always been more about the people than the fishing": a fortnight as artist-in-residence within the fishing community of Arbroath, Scotland https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/2023/11/25/looking-for-a-visual-grammar-of-animacy monthly 0.5 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/25b4381d-dd24-41eb-9a9c-9ebf33dac991/Screenshot+2025-07-24+at+16.57.22.png Journal - Looking for a visual "grammar of animacy": can comics bring us into better relation with other living beings? Zoom out: a go at one of Aidan Koch’s environmental comics exercises https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/2023/11/27/terra-incognita-the-ma-illustration-authorial-practice-graduate-show-at-falmouth-university monthly 0.5 2024-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/91ab7fa8-2dcf-4127-b208-359032896269/IMG_4270.jpeg Journal - Terra Incognita - the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice graduate show at Falmouth University - Make it stand out The full Loveland’s Weeds display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/c0e8c828-18b2-49d2-a925-0be35cc51c2a/IMG_4303.jpeg Journal - Terra Incognita - the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice graduate show at Falmouth University - Make it stand out The original postcard comic artwork was displayed alongside hand-drawn portraits of Lovelanders - people and plants alike - and handwritten thoughts and observations about weeds. The background is a weed “map” - the outline of the leaves, flowers, and roots of a sample of weeds from Loveland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/e572d674-af4d-4735-8497-7906508fba8d/IMG_4259.jpeg Journal - Terra Incognita - the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice graduate show at Falmouth University - Make it stand out A makeshift table from Loveland palettes, used to display the set of Loveland Weeds postcard comics, flyers about the Falmouth Food Coop - of which Loveland is a part - a potted “pigweed” (callaloo/amaranth) from Falmouth University’s own little kitchen garden, and blank postcards and drawing materials for visitors to use as they wished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/f0014d63-e431-43c1-bd65-e11d4c28b9ba/IMG_4256.jpg Journal - Terra Incognita - the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice graduate show at Falmouth University - Make it stand out The fridge contained produce from Loveland, available for visitors to the show to buy on a pay-as-you-feel basis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/ba761d46-f11f-4ae6-b7a9-d6f24082fe2e/IMG_4286.jpeg Journal - Terra Incognita - the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice graduate show at Falmouth University - Make it stand out Postcards written and drawn by visitors to both Loveland and to the show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1dccdfce-ac6a-4fb2-a648-2097c8b82c49/IMG_4255.jpeg Journal - Terra Incognita - the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice graduate show at Falmouth University - Make it stand out A bouquet of weeds from Loveland, and a few weedy reference books for visitors to flick through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/50825431-816c-44bd-92f9-a6105ac85d0b/be18fbf2-7227-4587-8a26-a71dc64f4472.jpeg Journal - Terra Incognita - the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice graduate show at Falmouth University - Make it stand out Chatting to visitors - including a few Loveland volunteers - during the show’s opening. https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/lovelands-weeds monthly 0.5 2023-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/783b8a04-9b2f-4abf-99dd-8711695c0262/IMG_7576.jpeg Journal - Loveland’s Weeds: an overview - Make it stand out The path leading from the riverbank up to Loveland, photographed in July 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/777b95c8-d8b5-4f16-9206-903cbd30bd8a/weeds_cover2.png Journal - Loveland’s Weeds: an overview - Make it stand out A compound drawing of weeds at Loveland - bitter dock, dandelion, scarlet pimpernel, common plantain (or ‘white man’s footstep’), willow herb, ragwort, buddleia, creeping buttercup… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/146c644d-3e30-4edb-83ab-f1347250de04/IMG_3955.jpeg Journal - Loveland’s Weeds: an overview - Make it stand out The six Loveland’s Weeds postcards. You can see three of the postcard comics in detail, with accompanying discussion, on the Work page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/64f0203f-b2d8-4082-97f3-81f425f84ee9/IMG_3849.jpeg Journal - Loveland’s Weeds: an overview - Make it stand out Leaves, roots and flowers of dandelion, buddleia, ragwort, dock, plantain, and more - traced to create the weed map (below) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/e708d1a9-6ab5-4fd6-8f26-728f1aed209f/Lovelands_weeds_map.jpeg Journal - Loveland’s Weeds: an overview - Make it stand out The map of themes, questions, and tentative responses that contained the Loveland’s Weeds project. https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/arbroath+fishing monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/Aidan+Koch monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/food+growing monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/food+comics monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/environmental+comics monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/animacy monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/food+illustration monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/gardening+comics monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/fishing+illustration monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/arbroath+smokies monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/reportage+comics monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/reportage+illustration monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/illustration+residency monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/Robin+Wall+Kimmerer monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/market+gardening monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/comics+research monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/Mel+Y+Chen monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/postcard+art monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/comics+theory monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/journal-avenue/tag/growing+communities monthly 0.5 https://www.carysboughton.com/work daily 1.0 2025-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1699876120920-5OVCGNPLZYFH6U7T24XI/Teresa.jpg Work - An imagined portrait of Teresa You can read Teresa’s testimony - ‘Work and motherhood amidst the border violence’ - here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1699627935272-ITQUYUCRMFC0G95J5YJW/forwebsite.jpg Work Full illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1699627421509-23KGUED96K2ZT5SC9HID/Criminal_Media_Nexus_.jpg Work Cover illustration in full https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1699626402099-GEL7619KPI0A6CKHZIWV/RGB+Johnsonia_CB+compressed.png Work Full illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1699896222834-PQSUPG726WDVIU2ILHQ3/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1699896860207-R6A9GYBUB2L5LVUTRC8T/30.jpg Work Philanthrocapitalism debate cover illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1699901534489-H116WDQCJ9P9Y6VS0Y1O/ragwort.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1699902070824-B8MN9ZOKL1D0DJZD6GIU/Callaloo.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1700945243678-TW6L89UQ1LET2TLCEDGQ/IMG_1003.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1700308149160-V5GD8W9XMEWN6ESTRY7I/john_weeding.jpg Work John weeding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1700948720787-C45OS655DW7CRRCE5QZE/IMG_1254.jpeg Work Daniel working on a keys arrangement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1700951720312-ETV9AGEGXXJTJUATU9UM/IMG_0941.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1744380909787-UJZFENBXFCM5G4L9R2OG/Arbroath_fishing_postcards_1doc5.jpg Work - "The women did everything bloody else!" With Ann Craig and Violet Thompson, both leading members of Heritage Arts Auchmithie Residents (HAAR) - a community group who celebrate the village of Auchmithie’s fishing history through theatre, music and art. Primarily led by women, HAAR is particularly dedicated to sharing the stories of Auchmithie’s fishwives, who were the lifeblood of the local fishing industry. As Violet said, aside from the fishing itself (and some net repair work), the fishwives were responsible for every other aspect of the industry, from baiting the lines - putting two to three mussels on up to 1400 hooks in one stint - to processing and selling the fish, which would often involve walking for miles carrying the heavy catch on their backs. Perhaps most famously, the fishwives also had to carry the fishermen to their boats; to protect them from getting wet before spending hours out at sea. Fishing was the primary way of life in Auchmithie for centuries, but from the early 1800s, the fisher community gradually began to migrate 3 miles down the coast to Arbroath, which had better infrastructure to support the industry. With them came their traditional practice of smoking salted haddock over hardwood - the same process used today to make the now-famous Arbroath smokies. Haar is a Scots word for a cold sea fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1744380355426-6NHNTUR27XO8UYX6RQ0J/Arbroath_fishing_postcards_1doc3.jpg Work - Overfishing? With Tommy and Benji Yule, father and son creel fishers. Creel fishing is the main type of commercial fishing in Arbroath, after the collapse (or destruction) of the local white fishing industry across the late 1980s into the early 2000s. The lobster and crab populations in the waters around Arbroath are currently stable, however there are concerns that populations may drastically decline soon as a result of overfishing. There is no quantity quota on most species of shellfish in Scotland. Lobsters and crabs just have to be of a minimum size, which theoretically protects the juvenile populations - but this seems to be insufficient. The Arbroath and Montrose Static Gear Association, who represent local creel fishers, are urging the Scottish government’s Marine Directorate to introduce a quantitative quota for the long term benefit of the local creel fishing industry. Bob Teviotdale, Chair of the AMSGA, commented that the Marine Directorate were not unsupportive of a quota like this, but do not know how they would enforce it. The man on the harbour wall is Harry Simpson - former owner of Mackay Boatbuilders, the last boatyard in Arbroath and one of the few remaining in Scotland with the expertise to restore historic wooden vessels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1744381352383-0G6JX6O2P0938CA3RQ2P/Arbroath_fishing_postcards_1doc.jpg Work - Smokies made here With Jo Moore, co-owner and manager of The Fish Hoose, a fishmonger and smokie-maker in the Fit o’ the Toon - the historic harbour-side part of Arbroath where the fishing community first established themselves. For most of the 20th century, almost every fisher household in the Fit o’ the Toon would have made their own smokies, but now there are just a handful of local businesses keeping up the practice, smoking haddock bought in from the bigger ports, like Peterhead, that are still landing white fish. Nevertheless, the tradition is still at the heart of Arbroath’s harbour life. This is due in part to foodie tourism - encouraged by the award of Protected Geographic Indication status* to the smokie in 2004 - but perhaps more due to the support of the local community. “Everybody looks out for one another…” Jo said, taking in other smokie makers, the residents of the Fit o’ the Toon, and their loyal customer base, “…and wants to keep the tradition flourishing - hopefully it continues like that!”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1744382275465-8YT94V9MTDUBAYDR5FX6/sights_2.jpg Work - In fishing for generations Top: Arbroath Abbey viewed from the patch of wildflowers now growing from what would have been the outer cloister. The Abbey is probably best known as the site where the Declaration of Arbroath was drawn up in 1320. The Declaration is a letter from the Scottish nobility to Pope John XXII, calling on him to recognise Scotland’s independence from England and acknowledge Robert the Bruce as the nation’s lawful king. It is seen by many as the founding document of the Scottish nation. Bottom: Smokies, fresh out of the fire, cooling on the rack. In the Product Specification document for the Arbroath Smokie, published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, it is described as “being to the humble haddock what prosciutto crudo is to the hind leg of a pig. It is the ultimate in flavour that can be achieved from the original article, and the secret, as with prosciutto, lies in the cure which gives the Smokie its delicious taste combining the subtle tang of smoke with the sweet, delicate flesh of the haddock.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1753461277632-80HG2N9MKZ4SDVMQ33R3/IMG_1223.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/1744381858923-38Y80ULW2BFE52EGJCI5/sights_cover.jpg Work - More about the people than the fishing (Top) Arbroath has had a working harbour since 1394. The current harbour was built in 1870 to support the area’s growing trading activity - importing coal, flax, timber, salt and iron, and exporting grains, stone, leather and, of course, fish. Over the following 150 years, this trading and the accompanying industries - from sail-making to boat building and fishing - have either completely shut down or contracted significantly. Now, the harbour is home to leisure boats, 19 active creel fishing boats, one boat building business, and numerous eateries. Passionate community members have different ideas about the harbour’s future, but one thing is clear - it will continue to be central to Arbroath’s identity for many years to come. (Bottom) The view across Carlingheugh Bay on the coastal path from Arbroath to Auchmithie. The cliffs were formed in the Devonian age - 400 million years ago - known as the “Age of the Fishes” as life was abundant in the oceans, but relatively scant on land. Formed mostly of soft old red sandstone, the cliffs have served multifarious uses for people over the centuries: they have been quarried for building material, and their many caves facilitated Arbroath’s position as Scotland’s smuggling capital in the 16th and 17th centuries. Now, they’re a popular destination for walkers - attracted by their striking shapes, and often also by the promise of a Smokie pancake at the But N Ben in Auchmithie at the walk’s end. https://www.carysboughton.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2023-11-25 https://www.carysboughton.com/about-avenue daily 0.75 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5898b823e58c62ed8acf755d/accf7ead-9cfe-4745-8727-1b51b8b817a3/tempImage85PA6Y.jpg About