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...
2007-2008 Edinburgh In February 2007, I returned to live in Edinburgh and work at Edinburgh College of Art. It was an opportunity for me to return to Edinburgh domestic drama after over 15 years away. I lived in a wonderful Georgian converted townhouse flat in...
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...
