ART RETREATS 2026
I run residential art retreats/holidays at Gartmore House, an atmospheric Scottish Manor Home, nestled within the Trossachs National Park and set in 100 acres of private land. Fully catered and with pickups arranged from Stirling Train Station.
I teach on these different courses – November – Printmaking, March & August – Painting and Drawing with Ink, July – Painting & Drawing in Nature.   click on the links for dates/prices/availability…… above image is an ink sketch of some of my students busy creating.
Spring Exhibitions 2026
Delighted to be in the above 3 spring exhibitions. click on the links for details.  ….Future Folklore…. Natural Collections ….. Summerhall Group Show
Summer Exhibitions 2025 & ARTIST TALK
Pleased to be in 2 exciting shows both based on the natural world.  Drawn From The Land a 3 person show at NTS Inverewe Gardens, Wester Ross, on till 31st July. Above is a gallery view with several of my WOOD based ink drawings. Also Tide & Time, in Graystone Gallery, handily right beside my Stockbridge studio, where I exhibited more of my circular WORD paintings based on WATER, here is my artist talk (I come on 27mins in).
Wave of Reflection
A new installation of 63 circular mixed media/oil paintings relating to thoughts/words about the sea. On view at the SSA 126th Annual Exhibition 2024
Cracker is on the wall of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
me with cracker on RA wall 2023
SeeSkySea..SOLO Exhibition.. links to online catalogue & videos
For the past 10 years I have been visiting Badininal /Badantional (choose your spelling!) in Wester Ross, staying at an old fisherman’s cottage on the shore, watching and documenting the continual changes in the sea and the sky. I’ve made altered books and various paintings that are being exhibited in the award winning Gairloch museum. View videos of my altered books ‘O for light‘ and ‘New ways Through‘ and to see all the paintings in SeeSkySea exhibition Click here for the online catalogue For lots more images including some of me doing some very odd moves at the opening night follow my instagram or facebook pages.
word is… solo show with online catalogue
Word is… a solo exhibition containing a selection of text related artworks created over the past decade. Held in the Doubtfire Gallery 13 July – 13th Aug 2022……… as always check out my facebook and instagram for uptodate images. access the brochure here…….. Read a review of the exhibition here.
artist talk about April Skies & O for light
Click here to see and hear my artist talk from my exhibition O for light. During which I explain my April skies and O for light altered book and the paintings developed from it, all created during lockdown 2020, including my participation in 100 day project Scotland……
O for light ….. solo exhibition
Upright Gallery is showing my new body of painterly text pieces based on the changing sky that I created during lockdown 2020.
A spring series of 30 small paintings depict the April sky, each one highlighting a single word.
A summer selection of larger paintings inspired by pages from my 100 day book, with subtle colour changes and mark-making whilst gently weaving the text through.
16th October – 6th November. Upright Gallery.. Barclay Terrace, Bruntsfield, Edinburgh
lockdown news
Follow me on Instagram or my Facebook page (links below) to see the paintings and collages I’m doing of the sky. Snippets of text can be seen, I’m taking each day as it comes and ‘finding the now’.
Time spent with Trees
Following my Croft residency in Wester Ross in April I am creating a new body of work, for SSA Exhibition at Meffan Gallery, Forfar, 7 September – 2 November 2019. Â This series of oil paintings is of the tools used for windblown trees….’Tools of Deforestation’. Â I help chop and saw but don’t touch the chainsaw or axe, (except the baby one for kindling). Over the years I’ve visited this same small Scottish forest and become familiar with it and the tools. As you can see from the gloves it was a little chilly when I was drawing outside.
‘Paper to Gold’ EP 50th Anniversary Exhibition
‘Bring on the Diamonds’ is my new limited edition screen print created for Edinburgh Printmakers 50th Anniversary Exhibition.  Using words relating to the gifts we give at anniversaries, I initially built this with traditional wooden letterpress, interlocking the words to signify the way life is intertwined.   LOVE was highlighted to show what holds relationships together and italso relating to my own love of the printmaking process.
Available to purchase from Edinburgh Printmakers and directly from myself.
Exhibition on until 31st March 2018