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"As the nights draw in, the sun pales into milky grey skies, we mourn the loss of what felt to be an endless summer. The earth reclaims the once protruding buds of life back into its quiet, rich soils." 

Lochside Memory was the first painting from a series inspired by memory; when the long-forgotten river, loch, and coastal swims, are replaced by visceral familiarity. The series was created from sepia tones and greenish hues. The intention was to balance carefully between the formal landscapes and abstracted, gestural marks, suggesting rather than telling. 

The light is constantly shifting and, therefore, altering the scene. The constraint of a camera’s lens or artist’s panel creates boundaries that do not exist if stood within real-time and space. My current practice explores how to recreate the Scottish landscape within the limitations of this knowledge. By layering the image, I create depth that enables the viewer to be absorbed through focussed segments of interest, along with more peripheral, hazy areas. I am often drawn to the edge of the land through my love of outdoor swimming. The watery surfaces play, reflect and refract the formal segments of land, water and sky, and transform the work into a simplified study of line, shape and colour. I use translucent layers of chalky gesso, along with glossy inks and acrylics to paint, rub and scrape, mimicking the contrasting textures of the landscape.

2017 - 2018 MLitt Fine Art (Print Media), Glasgow School of Art (Distinction)

2013 - 2016BA Hons Fine Art, Loughborough University (First Class Hons)

Exhibitions: 2023 Birdsnest, Edinburgh, 2022 Winter, Spring, Cheltenham , 2022 Strata/ Thought Lines, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, 2022 Inception, Dalkeith Palace, Dalkeith, 2021 Small Works, Spring, Cheltenham, 2019 Fling: Relay 2, Tramway, Glasgow, 2017 Essence and Location, ArtCore, Derby, 2017 RE: Imagined, Store Street Gallery, London, 2016 Free Range, Truman Brewery, London.
 
Awards: 2018 Dumfries House Residency (In association with Royal Drawing School), Cumnock, 2016 P2P Artist Prize, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester, 2016 EM16 Residency, Surface Gallery, Nottingham.

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