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I never have time for art, there is always something going on. Art is a rush, squeezed between life commitments. So art needs to be quick, expressive, immediate, hurried. There is no time for art but art is always there, it never leaves and buzzes you when you finally have time to sit and think. And art then becomes a remembered glance, of something I’ve seen in a hurry and not had time to look closely. It is an interpretation of a brief visual memory. My art is fast, rushed, pushed – hastily made…with love. I wish I had more time for art.

I am a  Scottish artist from Edinburgh, now based in the Scottish Borders,. Practice is predominantly landscape drawing and painting, and illustration. I have been a practising artist since 2009 after a long break from painting through the 1990’s and early 2000’s when creative output was mainly drawing, photography and restoration.

Edinburgh College of Art – BA Hons, Painting, 2015-2019
Edinburgh College of Art – Master of Fine Art with distinction (MFA), 2019-2021
Eleven works featured and exhibited at Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh, August 2020
Marchmont Open Studios, August 2021
Collaborative show in ‘Nature Still’ exhibition at The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre in Edinburgh,  November 2021
‘Spring group show’ Lemon Street Gallery (Withiel), Cornwall, March - June 2022
‘Inception’ Exhibition, Dalkeith Palace, May 2022
Open studios – Marchmont Creative Spaces, May 2022
‘Second Nature’ Exhibition, Patriot Hall, Edinburgh June-July 2022  
Open studios – Marchmont Creative Spaces, August 2022
‘At Home with the Scottish Colourists’, participant with Lyon and Turnbull  at a weekend at Marchmont House, September 2022.
SSA 130 years exhibition., group show at Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, December 2022 – January 2023
The 100 Days Project Scotland Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, March 2023
‘Water of Leith, Water of Life’ group exhibition at Graystone Gallery, Leith, March – April 2023

ECA Sketchbook Award, May 2017
Hospitalfield collaborative mini residence and exhibition with Sculptor Kenny Hunter 2018
ECA ‘Astaire Award’, third prize, April 2019
Lyon and Turnbull graduate award and residency June 2019
Artist Residency, Eigg, February 2020 (Lyon and Turnbull collaboration with The Bothy Project)
Artist Residency at Marchmont House, August 2021

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