After studying painting at art school, I initially worked in Community Arts before becoming an Art Psychotherapist. I worked for the NHS for many years using art materials to facilitate patients expressing, exploring, understanding, and ultimately improving their mental health before returning to painting full-time.

In my paintings I am exploring my felt-experience of the sea, the sky, and the land in-between. My painting process is intuitive and is informed by what I call my 'heart response', my internal landscape's reflection to a remote external landscape, as opposed to a striving for a figurative or literal depiction. In my paintings I am aiming to capture an expansiveness, a limitlessness, a spaciousness or other worldliness, of the ephemeral quality of the ever-changing light and elemental energies. I am drawn to the sense of isolation and wonder one can experience when confronted by the immeasurable beauty and power of nature associated with the Romantic landscape painting tradition. I am based in Glasgow but spend a lot of time on the coast of Argyll, walking and absorbing this remote part of the Scottish coastline to later translate into painted pieces.

More recently, I am working alongside my larger oil on canvas pieces on smaller mixed media pieces. I feel this more immediate approach is enabling me to continue to explore the light, colour and beauty of the landscape which I love but is allowing me to bring a different energy and vitality to my work. The above photo was taken at my favourite place overlooking the Sound of Jura from Knapdale, Argyll.