I returned to my creative practice of painting full-time in 2022 after a career in the visual arts in Edinburgh. My partner (also a painter) and I then invested in a dedicated studio in our garden.  

Early in my practice my main focus was representational painting, but now later in life I wanted to take a more challenging, less traditional/realist approach to my painting.

I have devoted time to breaking down my previous approaches to image and mark making.  I am enjoying taking familiar images down a transitional path from representation toward abstraction. As a contemporary artist living in the shadow of the iconic Forth Bridges and my native Fife, I have been inspired by the rugged and familiar beauty and serenity of the estuary and its shoreline.  I am inspired by daily walks in a around Queensferry, the shoreline and beach combing that reacquaints with the ebb and flow of life around the shoreline and it unique topography - as well as an interest in the local geology  - and water that inspires anyone who lives by the sea.

I concentrate my working practice toward dialogue between mark-making and passages of paint. Most of the artists that inspire me come from the strong Scottish tradition of the paint surface being an important indicator of the process of mark making in painting the tension between the image seen and perceived and the marks that trace the beauty.   I also find a greater affinity with the painter of the Cornish landscape that have given us a true language of the sea.