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...
2009 – 2011 Fred

2009 – 2011 Fred

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...
2005 – 2006 Oxford

2005 – 2006 Oxford

2005-2006 Oxford I started lecturing part time at Oxford Brookes University in 2005 and also rented a studio space at Magdalen Road Studios and proceeded to paint every evening, weekend and day off. In early 2006 I worked on a new series of painting for the Sarah...
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...