Artist Statement

I’ve always been interested in places where man and nature meet - the overlooked and unloved margins of our landscape. From deconstructed sheds to overgrown greenhouses, clearfell sites and field edges, my paintings explore nature’s opportunistic reclaim of our managed landscapes; celebrating weeds and wildness, and beauty found in the unpredictable tangle of encroaching plant life.

 

I work in oils on paper pasted onto board, drawing into the wet paint with pencil. This technique results in a sketch-like finished work; the fragility and fluidity of the marks on paper echoing the temporary and peripheral nature of the places I paint.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 – Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2019 - Resipole Studios Acharacle

2018 - Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2016 - Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2015 - Wall Projects, Montrose

2014 - 108 Fine Art, Harrogate

2013 - RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow: Unmapped, collaborative project with writer Rebecca Sharp
Old Gala House, Christopher Boyd Gallery

2011 - Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen

2010 - Beaux Arts, Bath
108 Fine Art, Harrogate

2009 - Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Traon Nevez, Brittany

2008 - 108 Fine Art, Harrogate

2007 - Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh: W. Gordon Smith Award
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik

2015

Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
Project Gallery, Arundel
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
 

2014

Wall Projects, Montrose
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Medici Gallery, London

2013

Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
StAnza International poetry festival, St Andrews
Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Wall Projects, Montrose

2012
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Green Gallery, Stirlingshire
Wall Projects, Montrose
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2011

The River Runs Through It, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
Green Gallery, Stirlingshire
Young Masters @ Sphinx, Cynthia Corbett Gallery
InFinitum, Wall Projects

2010

Glasgow Art Fair [with Gallery Heinzel]
Art London [with Open Eye Gallery]
Open Eye Gallery [Studio Selection]
Wall Projects, Montrose

2009

Recoat Gallery, Glasgow
Glasgow Art Fair [with Gallery Heinzel]
Wall Projects, Montrose
Beaux Arts, Bath

2008

Glasgow Art Fair [with Gallery Heinzel]
Morris & Spottiswood, Glasgow [commission]
Mellerstain Summer Exhibition
John McCusker 'Under One Sky' CD [commission]
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen

2007

Glasgow Art Fair [with Gallery Heinzel]
Byard Art, Cambridge
The White Gallery, Dundee
Mellerstain, Scottish Borders
Gallery Heinzel [with Jane Cruickshank and Emily Little]
Recoat Gallery, Glasgow [mixed show]

2006

Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, 'Tale of Two
Glasgow Art Fair [with Gallery Heinzel]
Wall Projects, Montrose
Byre Theatre, St Andrews
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen

2005

Duncan of Jordanstone Degree Show [sell out]
Dundee Alternative Degree Show
Resipole Gallery, Acharacle
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen [with Marian Leven and Bettina Visentin]
The White Gallery, Dundee
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

 

RESIDENCIES

2016 - SÍM  - The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik. Supported by the South of Scotland Visual Artist and Craftmaker Awards funded by Creative Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway Council and Live Borders.

2024 – The Hugo Burge Foundation, Marchmont Estate

2013 - The Bothy Project, Aviemore

2009 - Traon Nevez, Brittany

2006 & 2007 - Watch House, Catterline

 

AWARDS

2016 - South of Scotland Visual Artsit Award

2012 - Creative Scotland Quality Production Funding for a collaborative project with poet Rebecca Sharp

2007 -  Jolomo Lloyds TSB Landscape Awards Winner
Anna Miller Scholarship

2005 - Royal Scottish Academy Landscape Award [Student Exhibition]
Ian Eadie Award, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art

 

EDUCATION

2005

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art