Reform Lane is one of the series of picturesque steep narrow alleyways which run between the Hillhead and Commercial Street, Lerwick.  About a hundred years ago,the buildings on either side of these lanes were a crowded warren of small flats and bedsits, into which a large proportion of the population was crammed.

This landscape painting was commissioned by Kim Mathieson of Toronto, Canada, whose father grew up in one of the Reform Lane basement flats.  It is in oils on hardboard, and 24 x 18 inches in size.