The Eskdalemuir art and mystery trail

08/08/2025

The Art and Mystery Trail on ITV (second one in!) ☺️:

Watch the latest from ITV News - In this week's programme, ancient history meets mystery, meets art in a Dumfriesshire valley, and we visit the church in the Borders which has been saved.

08/08/2025

The Eskdalemuir Art and Mystery Trail on YouTube (a half-hour watch 😊)

09/03/2025

For anyone who missed the first showing of the Eskdalemuir Art and Mystery Trail film, here's another chance to see it ~ at the Hub in Eskdalemuir.

I and the other artists who are part of the trail look forward to seeing you there 🤗

16/12/2024

Join us at the opening day of the Eskdalemuir art and mystery trail for a day filled with creativity, exploration, and exciting surprises!

05/12/2024

A little explanation of the dramatic name change ☺️

For a few months, I and other Eskdalemuir artists Catkin van Hoppe, Fergus Hall, Julie MacLeod and Sally Barrett have been working on creating a trail for the valley that combines having our studios open to visitors on an ongoing basis with a description of the abundance of mysterious prehistoric sites here ~ and Samye Ling, of course.

So this is now the facebook home of the trail.

Its website home is https://illuminationsbyshen.art/trail/

It also has a playlist on my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/

Look forward to seeing you here and there...and maybe even in person in the misty valley 🥰

"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better everyday. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love." ~ Dostoyevsky I’m an ar...

24/01/2024

* big news! *
Sorry to disappoint all the lovely folk for whom Rennaldburn’s been a beloved creative retreat for the past seventeen years, but I now no longer offer self catering accommodation here.

This is so I can focus on working on my own artwork…and also so I can have an in-house gallery, open to visitors from December 14th 2024.
Come visit! (Do ring first though, on 07726926869 :)

If you’re new to the wonders of Rennaldburn, it’s a secluded seventeenth-century farmhouse surrounded by pastureland, a couple of miles south of Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Centre in Eskdalemuir, Dumfries & Galloway.

Rennaldburn is the first house built by Thomas Telford under the apprenticeship of a master stonemason in his early teens…and its deep heart is in the beautiful waterfall which runs through a wooded ravine here, from which the house takes its name.