About
I grew up in Kingussie, a small village situated in the beautiful Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands of Scotland. I moved to Edinburgh for university and now live in East Lothian.
I work with oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and I am drawn to printmaking techniques that help inform my experimental lightboxes.
My interest lies in creating drama and intrigue across the different media with contrasting light and shadow to convey the places or people as I see them, or wish them to be, not a photographic representation but more of a portal to a possible scene or dream with their own soundtrack.
I work towards creating immersive pieces of art which convey the sense of place that interest me, slightly unsettling quiet streets, ominous carnival scenes with or without figures and solo figures alone with their thoughts.
The process of my work allows true escapism for me as I work through from initial idea to sketches, then experimentation and decision of medium, through to a completed piece of work. I say escapism not in a sense of calm, but my process forces a removal of other distractions and allows clarity.
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about
2024 Nov – Invited to participate in Anonymous HeART Project 2024 for Heart Research UK.
2024 Sep – East Linton Annual Art Exhibition
2024 Aug – Selected for Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Now and Then Centenary Exhibition at Dalkeith Palace
2023/24 – Working on paintings of City Streets, concentrating on the quiet
night atmosphere of my capital city , focusing on its empty streets and dimly
lit spaces
2023 – Leith School Of Art – End of year exhibition: 23rd- 25th June
2023 – I have been concentrating on figures and embarked on a project
further exploring printmaking techniques and introducing lightbox effect to
semi transparent media.
2022/23 – Leith School of Art – Year long Figure course
2022 – Leith School of Art – End of year Exhibition
2022 – LSA Exhibition June : Paintings concentrated on a carnival at night,
mysterious and intriguing in its absence of people.
2021/22 – Leith School of Art
– Year long Landscape Course
