March's Shetland Life - out on Friday

Shet Life Preview March

Front cover of new Shetland Life - but where is Dave Jackson?

This is a screen print called Da Slockit Light, by Dave Jackson. I bought it at Aberdeen Art Gallery nearly 20 years ago, and thought it would be an ideal cover illustration for the magazine, which has a mjor piece in it about...stoves.

Da Slockit Light was a mixed-media 'event' which popped up in Shetland at the Town Hall during the Folk Festival one year. Dave, an excellent guitarist, was often at the festival. But he has left Aberdeen and no-one in the art scene there has seen or heard of him for years.

I decided to use the illustration without getting his permission, in the hope that he wouldn;t mind and that maybe he would get in touch when the magazine was published. Can anyone help? He's owed a reproduction fee.

New Shetland Life Magazine and a wee picture

In the shops now!

Stoves - the return of solid fuel. Get scranning and casting!

Between Blethers: As yet another pie-in-the-sky movie idea for Shetland (third sequel to The Wicker Man) is floated (if you can float a pie, and of course you can't), Neil Riddell looks at the saga of Between Weathers, and Marsali Taylor reaces the history of Shetland on the big screen.

Zheehpz - debut of the Shetland cartoon written and drawn by one of Spain's top cartoonists, now resident in the isles

The Shetland Marilyns - hillwalking agogo amid the Zetlandic peaks

Cars, gardening, travel, music and more. Just £2.30 from a shop either near or very far from you...

And that wee picture: Is this the UK's most spectacularly-sited Tesco? Picture taken today...