Storm Swept Mountain

Of Hills and Mist

The Great Glen

Galloway Forrest Park

My  recent work in oil alludes to the endurability of mountain and sea as well as their elusive changeability; it has been inspired by the looming shapes and ever – changing shadows across the hills and horizons of Galloway and the Western Highlands, resulting in a substantial series of semi-abstract, but expressive oil paintings. Often the paintings have the quality of a glimpse recalled, an impression which carries an emotional response to the landscape. I have also been working on a contrasting series of “luminous landscapes” – semi-abstract watercolours focussing on the qualities of light and atmosphere on the west coast of Scotland.

  My more abstract watercolour series, also ongoing, is called “Beyond the Stone”. This relates to the composition of the landscape - rock, water, organic matter and colour. Inspired by a fascination with the stones and rocks which lie at our feet but also form and contain the elements of the landscape we see around us: I try to reflect the organic nature of these in my method of painting – which is improvisational but is also a two-way process of guiding and controlling the work and responding to the colours and shapes as they spread across the surface.

All of my work is concerned with a perception of our physical landscape.

      Currently, I live in Kirkcudbright, Galloway, where I run my own small gallery to exhibit my own work, but am still exhibiting widely, including at the Islington Art and Design Fair in London, the Glasgow Art Fair, The RGI, and Compass Gallery, Glasgow, John Green Fine Art, Glasgow, The Broughton Gallery and at other galleries and in private collections in Great Britain, Belgium and in Finland, where I hold a Finnish Arts Council Award for my work in the community with cross-arts workshops.

Cairngorms


Spring Nights


Impressions of Skye
 

Under Dark Skies

Glen Head Image

Sea Light from Carrick

Calm Water of Loch Grannoch