Scottish Artist creating unique pieces inspired by Scotland’s wild places
Scotland is my inspiration, my North Star!
I started painting as part of grieving, it enabled me to release my emotions and opened up a new world for me. I took some watercolours with me on holiday to Scotland and painted every day becoming thoroughly absorbed in the moment.
I had fallen in love with painting and Scotland
A year later I had the chance to re-locate to Scotland and haven’t stopped painting since
My work moves beyond the physicality of a place into the emotion
The wildness is freeing, it allows me to access my base instincts and respond to the natural forces of our world, from the dark side of storms, snow and ice to the glittering gorse and lochs, inspiring highs of the mountains and the warm embrace of the glens combined with the intrigue of tumbled down ruins, old whisky stills and more buried beneath my feet. All of this is translated into my paintings.
My colour palette reflects the richness of the seasons, calling to your senses to feel the bracken and hear the water, immersing you in Scotland.
The materials I use are informed by what I am trying to convey. From traditional brushes and techniques through to experimental, more immersive techniques using nature to create directly with pine cones, grasses, twigs and feathers.
These help ground me and the creation
“I pour my energy, emotion and passion for Scotland into all my work and that is what I love most about creating”
