Treasures Beneath
2012 A series of abstract paintings inspired by tales of the ocean – its movement and changing nature, caught glimpses of what’s below, sea stories, mermaids, selkies and lost treasure.
Process Series
2011 – 2012 This series came from my love of the physicality of painting, and also my desire to explore the process of how I create a bit more deeply. These paintings formed a series in the truest sense, where I actively took an element of the previous work in the series, and explored it …
Fossil Coral Abstract
2023 Poring through rocks in the studio that I had collected, that were filled with fossilised Siphonodendron corals, it really intrigued me the way the traces of coral tentacles formed dots and dashes, depending on their exact placement in the rock (relative to its outer surface). It inspired me to work with similar clouds of …
Organic Abstracts
2024 A short series of spontaneous abstracts inspired by organic forms and the colours of the Winter landscape here in Northern Scotland.
Morphology
2022 -2023 As I’ve been slowly learning about geology, and then taking that book knowledge out into the Scottish landscape to see the real-life examples, I’ve been absolutely blown away by the way that rock can bend, curve, melt, distort, stretch, compress, thrust and interact in strange ways with other rock units. And so, over …
Illustration
Life Drawing & Portraiture
2010 – 2022
Dots Series
2016 Dots is an abstract series exploring transparency, windows, strata and excavation. It plays with colour, simulated and physical texture, and makes intensive use of stencilling through unconventional objects. Its roots are in my love of collecting and arranging ‘many alike’ objects into complex arrangements.
Ness of Brodgar
2013 In the Summer of 2013 I spent three weeks (over two visits, seeing the early stages and end of that years dig season) as Artist in Residence at the award-winning Ness of Brodgar archaeological excavations in Orkney, Scotland. This Neolithic site is of major world importance and sits within the UNESCO World Heritage site. Only discovered …
Early Digital Abstract Painting
2019 – 2021 Over the last decade, I’ve been living with a brain condition that regularly puts me on strict flat bed rest – sometimes for weeks at a time. Although my art studio lies only a few steps away in my garden, I found myself getting increasingly sad about the amount of time I …