​​plane: a two-dimensional surface, any two of whose points can be joined by a straight line that lies entirely in the surface...
Control(s)
10th Street Studio
West Virginia, USA, 2022

For some time now I have been feeling something of a disaffection with painting. During the early part of 2021, whilst in lockdown, I developed a project as part of the Self-Isolation Residency entitled ‘Finding a Reason to Paint’.
I was at that time, and indeed am now, still interested in both the practice and the nature (brushstrokes) of painting...

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Personal Topographies
(The Self-Isolation Residency)
Dunoon Burgh Hall Gallery,
Dunoon Scotland 2021.

As part of the reflective process of the Self-Isolation Residency it really became apparent to me how much of an influence upon my practice travel, with all its attendant advantages, had become; also how being deprived of those opportunities may detract from it...


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The Self-Isolation Residency
Athole House Studio
Dunoon, Scotland, 2020-2021
Portrait (Virtual) Exhibition
Air Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2020

In 2020 I had to return from the USA and my 'Americana Project',  due to Covid 19. I resolved during my flight back that I should occupy my Self-Isolation with an artist residency based introspection regarding my creative practice...
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Carved from this Land
Dunoon Burgh Hall
Athole House Studio,
Scotland, 2019.

Combining ideas of painting and sculpture this body of work was produced in my traditional limited, earthy, palette, to explore the unique land sea and sky of Scotland. The oil paint is richly impasto and worked entirely palette knife giving the works an almost bas-relief feels to the works...

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Americana
10th Street Studio
West Virginia, USA, 2019 onwards.
Work in progress. Began in 2019 before the Covid 19 pandemic this is a 2 fold project painting from the unique American lifestyle and landscape to explore an impasto, 'brushy' style of colourist paintings...



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Mauve Skies
Firth of Clyde,
Athole House Studio,
Scotland,  2018.

After opening Athole House Studio in Scotland I began a research period to consider my new output. The Firth of Clyde where it is based is a beautiful location and my early studies and photographs were of course all landscapes...


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Scotland
Plein air & Mirabel Studios,
2015-2017

​Included in this section are some of the works that made me finally decide to relocate my practice to Scotland fulltime.   
The Teaching Years
Selected Drawing & Paintings,
Mirabel Studios,
2012-2018

From 2012 - 2018 I was teaching and lecturing full time, I was also Course Coordinator for The Independent Art School
Spatial Paintings
​2007 - 2011
Oil paintings
​2005-2008