2024 Ghosts in the Garden

2024 Ghosts in the Garden

2021-24 Ghosts in the Garden ‘Ghosts in the Garden’ is an ongoing project.. From May 2021 I made an observational drawing from our home garden each day as a participant in ‘100 Day Droject Scotland’. These drawings formed the starting point of...
2014 – 2015 Oxgangs and Beyond

2014 – 2015 Oxgangs and Beyond

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

2012 – 2013 Mergers and Monopolies

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...
2004 Hastings

2004 Hastings

2004 Hastings I left Chichester in 2003 to re-establishing my art practice. I moved to the dynamic seafront of Hastings in East Sussex; a town full of colourful people and a new source of visual stimulus. I developed a preoccupation with the sensibilities and...
1993 – 1999 Aberdeen

1993 – 1999 Aberdeen

1993-1999 Aberdeen In 1993, I became a full time painting lecturer at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. A new lyricism and use of colour emerged and I started to make work with more pathos and myth. My second solo show at the Scottish Gallery in 1994...