Many of my works begin with loose, expressive marks rather than with definite ideas of direction. It seems that if I ‘know’ where I am going, the journey never really happens.
So, as well as capturing the fleeting experiences of seeing, my works record the uncertain experience of making them. I enjoy the surprise of mark-making, the juxtaposition of gestures and the suggestion of space through and beyond them.
Elements of landscape and geology, in abstract form, appear in some of my work, which I attribute to having studied Geology at Glasgow University in the 1970s.
After careers in London – in palaeontology and conservation at The Natural History Museum and conservation education at the Royal College of Art – I finally got around to studying painting at Leith School of Art.
Since then, art has been my focus and I now live on the Isle of Bute.
