Artist statement
I am intrigued by the partially revealed, the traces offering insight into a tangible connection, in both an historical and aesthetic sense, and our innate ability to extract information from the fragile remnants which remain.
Mark making is paramount throughout my work, obscured symbols and altered text offer a universal linguistic affinity, while an overlaid connective colour palette allow the works to be read as a whole.
The symbiosis of fragility offering permanence draws on the practice of “Make do and mend” in that nothing is broken, it just requires repair, and additional evidence of repair as in the Japanese art of Kintsugi and Boro is to be valued through extending the life and purpose of something.
Exhibitions
2024
Fidra fine art Gullane - “Abstracted”
Scottish Borders art fair Kelso
“Linear land” Dundas Street Gallery Edinburgh
Visual Arts Scotland “Then and now” 100 year Centenary Royal Scottish Academy
RSW 143rd Annual exhibition Royal Scottish Academy
“Altered and abstracted” Velarde gallery Kingsbridge Devon
Small paintings exhibition Morningside gallery Edinburgh
2023
Royal Scottish society of painters in watercolour 143rd Annual exhibition.
Society of Scottish artists 125th annual exhibition
“Mountains moons music” Studio Cennen Llandeilo
Lime tree gallery Bristol Winter exhibition
Fidra fine art Winter exhibitiion
New light art prize Mercer gallery Liverpool
“Token” Dundas street gallery
Delphic Mixed group exhibition Cupola gallery Sheffield
Paisley art institute 134th Annual open exhibition
The royal Scottish academy 197th Annual exhibition
“Monochrome” Studio Cennen Llandeilo
Scottish Borders art fair Kelso
Woodhorn open exhibition Ashington Northumberland
Royal Scottish society of painters in watercolour 142nd annual exhibition
Royal Cambrian academy of art Annual open exhibition Conwy
2022
Society of Scottish artists 130 years annual exhibition Royal Scottish Academy
Visual artists Scotland NORTH members exhibition Inverness creative academy
Paisley art institute Annual exhibition Glasgow art club
“Poems, psalms and song” Studio Cennen Lllandeilo
Lime tree gallery Bristol Autumn exhibition
Fidra Fine art Gullane “Inspired”
Dundas street gallery Edinburgh “Signature”
Fidra fine art Gullane ”All Summer long”
Scottish Borders art fair Kelso
Visual arts Scotland Annual exhibition “Reverb “
Woodhorne museum Annual open exhibition Ashington Northumberland
2021
Royal Scottish society of painters in watercolour 141st Annual exhibition RSA Edinburgh
Society of Scottish artists “Printed elements” Online exhibition
Society of Scottish artists “Re connect “ Online exhibition
2000
Fidra fine art Gullane Winter exhibition
Royal Glasgow institute - Kelly gallery Members online exhibition.
Visual arts Scotland “Flow” Online exhibition
Society of Scottish artists 30 x 30 online exhibition
Paisley arts institute 132nd Annual online exhibition
Royal Glasgow Institute “ Thoughts are free” Members online exhibition
Royal Scottish Academy 194th Annual exhibition
Royal Glasgow Institute Kelly gallery Members exhibition “Embody without burden”
Scottish Borders art fair Kelso
Woodhorn museum Annual exhibition Ashington Northumberland
2019
Royal Scottish society of painters in watercolour 139th Annual exhibition
Paisley arts institute 131st Annual exhibition
Fidra fine art Gullane “Abstracted”
Scottish Borders art fair Kelso
Woodhorn museum Ashington Northumberland Annual open exhibition
Visual arts Scotland “Alight” Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Society of Scottish artists 121st Annual exhibition Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
2018
Royal Scottish Society of painters in Watercolour 138th Annual exhibition
Edinburgh art fair
Staithes studios, Staithes North Yorkshire “Within reach”
Visual Arts Scotland “Current” Tatha gallery Newport on Tay Members exhibition
Edinburgh Macmillan art show Bonhams Edinburgh
Royal Scottish Academy annual exhibition
Paisley arts institute Annual open exhibition.
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour 7TH Annual exhibition Meffan institute Forfar
Spring at the Lund , Lund studios Easingwold North Yorkshire
Scottish Borders art fair Kelso
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour 137th Annual exhibition
2017
Royal Glasgow Institute Annual open exhibition Mitchell gallery Glasgow
Edinburgh art fair
Royal Scottish Academy Annual open exhibition
Water street gallery Todmordon “Towards abstraction”
Kunsthuis gallery Crayke North Yorkshire “At a glance “