This is a poem that I wrote about the old house that I live in. We don’t know its exact age, but it was probably built around the late 18th century. We have a census record showing it full to the brim with a family and their servant in 1821. Some of the original features …
20 x 24″ (51 x 61 x 4cm) Mixed media on canvas. This painting came from work I did on a Winter trip to Orkney. I love the light and the skies in Orkney, and this tries to capture the moment when cloud cover and drizzle clear for a fleeting moment to illuminate the landscape …
24 x 24 Diptych – two 24 x 12” canvases. (Each canvas is 61 x 31 x 4 cm) Acrylic on canvas. Orkney Held Me Close and Blew Me Away was created from a watercolour sketch I made during storms at the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney, Scotland during the month of February. The colours …
16 x 32″ (40 x 80cm) Acrylic on canvas. Loose brushstrokes convey the storm that sweeps down the Dornoch Firth from the Kyle of Sutherland and Ardgay and Bonar Bridge towards Tain and Dornoch. Painted from photographs and memories from a vantage point on the A9 Dornoch Bridge crossing – no sketches, it was too …