Threefold 2 – Three Contemporary Figurative Painters

Threefold 2 – Three Contemporary Figurative Painters

May 28, 2019 | BLOG, EXHIBITIONS

I am exhibiting new paintings in Threefold 2 at the Union Gallery, Edinburgh. This is the second time I have exhibited with Sophie McKay Knight and Alexandra Warren. We are all contemporary figurative painters who have a strong sense of colour and mystery in our...
369 Gallery Remembered

369 Gallery Remembered

Jan 12, 2019 | BLOG, EXHIBITIONS

I was fortunate to have a studio at the 369 Gallery for four years (1988-92). My first solo show was in the main gallery in 1989 – paintings and monoprints inspired by a year in Madrid on a Spanish Government Scholarship, fosussing on the rose garden in the...
Moving artist’s studio

Moving artist’s studio

Oct 24, 2018 | BLOG

In August this year I moved artist’s studio within the same building – WASPS Studios, West Park Place, Edinburgh. I had been in my previous studio for twenty three years! That is a long time to be in an artist’s studio. My years there had been marked by a...
La Fête Champêtre

La Fête Champêtre

Jul 29, 2018 | BLOG, EXHIBITIONS

This series of paintings takes its inspiration from the theme of la Fête Champêtre – a pastoral festival, or picnic in the park. Eighteenth century French artist Antoine Watteau reflected on this theme, depicting men and women in elegant costumes eating and dancing in...
Roman fresco course in Sardinia

Roman fresco course in Sardinia

Jun 20, 2018 | BLOG, FRESCO

Last month I spent a week at Bosa Art School in Sardinia with Carey Mortimer. We are both ridiculously interested in the Roman fresco technique and decided to get together to develop a Roman fresco course to be launched next year in Bosa. The technique, as typified in...
Remembered Rooms

Remembered Rooms

Mar 17, 2018 | BLOG

I have painted a series of rooms remembered from my childhood – I lived in four different houses, each with a particular character which still invades my dreams. The paintings started out from a spark of memory, but soon developed into parallel places – rooms of...