Hello, welcome to my site. I am delighted you have found me and I hope you enjoy looking at my work.
I graduated from Art College in 1981 so have been a printmaker for roughly 40 years now, and a professional artist for almost 30 (1991). It's mostly etchings I do and what you will find here.
Edinburgh, Scotland has been my home for most of my life and it’s here where, as a member of Edinburgh Printmakers, I make my work.
Mostly these are pictures of whatever strikes me, wherever I am: cityscapes of Edinburgh, landscapes, plant studies, still lives and collections of objects I have found. It’s light and shadow that I notice, tone and texture and patterns. I enjoy doing sets of images showing variations on a theme. Recently I have been making forays into abstraction, but, so far, this is about having fun! I don’t know where, if anywhere these’ll lead me.
I have a fairly active Instagram account so do go there to see what I am doing at any given time. I rarely use Facebook now. Please use the link above.
NEWS:
Exhibitions:
15 - 26 June 2024 The 'No Woman is an Island' group will be exhibiting again at The Birch Tree Gallery on Edinburgh's Dundas Street. We have been exhibiting in this lovely gallery for a few years now - being given the space when the owner goes on holiday - which is just great. As a group we have been going on holiday together every year for a week to explore, sketch and generally enjoy ourselves. Before lockdown we used to go abroad but since then we have been staying nearer to home spending time in Cromarty, Amble and Aberfeldy. We also meet on a monthly basis to, weather permitting, sketch outdoors. There is no theme to this years exhibition but it should be, as ever, an interesting selection of the best all of us have to offer. Our usual line-up includes:
Kairen Bergius, Rona MacLean, Aileen Grant, Karen Rogers and this year we have also invited the inimitable Doreen Boogart..
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Recently I have added an extra page to this website - to be found under ARCHIVE above. This is to showcase various commissions and different sorts of work I have done over the years. I have occasionally been inspired to work beyond my comfort zone and try something new - None of these have ever sold but it's always great to be challenged in this business.
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Scottish Landscape Awards Open Exhibition is now finished at the City Arts Centre, Edinburgh. A wonderful selection of art from across Scotland was to be seen. My piece: 'A Time & Place' was included. I look forward to the next show which will be in Kirkcudbright, in 2026.
Meanwhile, I continue to work at getting all the galleries that show my work in their browsers re-stocked. The link to where you can find me is here.
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