In the Gloaming at Lochearnhead
acrylic on canvas board
45 x 35cm
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Autumn Light in the Cullins
acrylic on canvas board
40 x 30cm |
Sunset
over the West
acrylic on canvas
board
40 x 40cm
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Glencoe Mountain Snow
acrylic on canvas board
45 x 35cm
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I
also won the John C Low scholarship in 1998, to go to Canada
on a student exchange, and while I was there I was amazed
by the beauty of the Canadian landscape and similarities
to Scotland’s.
After college I was involved in a number of art projects
and workshops with adults and children of all ages, as well
as working three years in schools with children with special
needs. I also spent three fabulous years at Dundee College
as an art tutor with the children’s Arts and Crafts
class, but in 2008 I decided it was time to concentrate
fully on my own work.
I paint mostly in acrylics and mainly Scottish landscape
but I have also been drawn to paint the Canadian Rockies
because to me, looking at them is like looking at the mountains
of Scotland, but on a giant scale.
Inspired by the colours, textures, patterns and a pure love
of Scotland and it’s natural beauty, I try to capture
the ethereal and ever-changing light and atmosphere of the
landscape.
I paint flat using palette knives, hake brushes and at times,
just my fingers. I try to bring energy and movement into
the work, and by building up layers of paint that sometimes
makes for a textural surface, and then the magic begins
and the painting starts to emerge, and sometimes it is like
the painting has almost painted itself . |
