Do Come and Visit...

Having brushed the snow and ice off my Arctic boots, it's now time for Oxfordshire Artweeks.

For the next 10 days (starting on 17th May and running through to Monday 26th May), you can come and visit me to look at some of my recent images from cold and remote places.

I've got images from South Georgia and the Falkland Islands in the far South, and from Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands in the North.

And of course there are pictures from the Shetland Islands.

There will also be some images from my latest trip - I've just spent a couple of weeks exploring the Vestfjord inside the Arctic Circle in northern Norway including a number of places in the Lofoten Islands.

Don't let the pictures fool you - it might have sunny in the Lofoten Islands, and close to 20 hours daylight each day, but the temperatures were usually not too far above freezing, and if it did rain, it was snow.

Svinoya, Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands

Reine, Lofoten Islands

May Bank Holiday Monday, Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands

For more information www.artweeks.org/festival/2014/ross-mackenzie

There is lots of information about all the Oxfordshire Artweeks activities on www.artweeks.org and about the activities in Headington and Marston on headingtonartweeks.blogspot.co.uk