2017-2018Cutaways In April 2017 I started working on a larger scale on canvas, which allowed me to create and play with every more complex compositions. My fascination with civil engineering lead me to rediscover the art of the ‘cutaway illustration’ I...
2016-17 Invasions and Excavations 2016 got off to an extraordinary start as I won the inaugural W Gordon Smith painting award at the Dovecot Studios Gallery. I presided over two successful Visual Arts Scotland exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Academy and I was...
2014-15 Oxgangs and Beyond In early 2014 My partner Catharine Davison and I moved to Oxgangs where we converted the garage into a studio. Oxgangs is situated between the Pentland Hills, The Braid Hills, Blackford Hill, Firhill and Craiglockhart hills and these vistas...
2012-2013 Mergers and Monopolies In August 2011, Edinburgh College of Art was merged with the University of Edinburgh. What this meant for me was that the short courses department I coordinated at ECA was closed and its course programme were brought under management...
2009-2011 Fred My father Fred died in May 2009. Fred Bushe OBE, RSA was at the forefront of modernist sculpture and set up the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire in the late 1970s. Fred’s ambition was to create a space where anyone, whether professional, a...
