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 am now based in East Lothian, where my surroundings provide a constant source of inspiration. I also travel widely across the Highlands of Scotland, drawing on its diverse landscapes to inform and shape my artistic practice.
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 genuine immersion 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 don’t mean this to imply a sense of calm, but my process forces a removal of other distractions and allows clarity.
My work is owned in private collections across the UK.
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UPCOMING EXHIBITION
25th of April till 23rd May 2026- PAI 137th Annual at the Glasgow Art Club
31 of Jan till 10th May – VAS Common Ground: The living landscape at Kirkcudbright Galleries
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Jan 11th till 4th Feb – Society of Scottish Artists 30 x 30 at the RSA
Dec 6th till 2nd Jan – Visual Arts Scotland at RSA 30 x 30
Nov 29th till Dec 21st – Selected for The ‘Michael Harding’ Secret Coast Prize for Fine Art exhibition at Tighnabruaich Gallery.
10 till 18th Oct – Highland Art Prize Exhibition, McCallum Art House , Fort William
9th till 12th Oct – East Linton Annual Art Exhibition
Sept ‘25 – Nominated by An Talla Solais for the Highland Art Prize
30th August till 23rd October – An Talla Solais Exhibition
2025 August – Visual Arts Scotland 30×30 at Artist and Makers market at Dalkeith Palace
2025 July – VAO 2025 Longlisted Artist
2025 – working on a series of Highland winter paintings.
2024 Dec- working on paintings inspired by night time walks in my village with my son.
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
