In both my landscape and still life paintings I attempt to create compositions that develop through layers of brushwork, drawing and collage, as they move between abstract and representational marks. Pattern and collage are very important elements, as I incorporate textures and mark making as prominent features.
I have continued to be inspired by the shapes and textures within landscape, buildings and still life compositions but only as a starting point.
I aim to create a delicate compositional balance with the object’s physical shape but also using the negative space between, allowing the drawn mark or brush stroke to dictate what happens next.
BIO
1980 – 84: Glasgow School of Art.
2011: Elected Member of Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
2012: Elected a Diplomate of the Paisley Art Institute.
2023: Elected Member of the Royal Glasgow Institute.
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