Abstract Collections

Until recently, my practice has been all about the animals and birds that I encounter on my travels around the UK and especially in Scotland where I lived as a child. 

Then in the last three years, travelling on both the West and East Coasts of Scotland, Cape Wrath in the North, and the islands of Orkney and the Hebrides, then a long sailing trip to the Arctic via St Kilda, Iceland, Greenland and Svalbard, I decided that as well as the animals and birds, I would start working on the extraordinary locations I found myself in. I have always been curious about abstraction and moving away from precise detail. It is a much more internal process, drawing on my feelings and reactions to a setting and using shapes and colours in a completely different way. The abstract landscapes are inspired by the colours and shapes of the sea and sky, the harbours, the beaches, the villages, fields and forests, the Neolithic remains, and even the de-commissioned oil rigs off the East Coast, and of course the Arctic scenery, the magnificence of which I am still processing. They are all small works, in either acrylic, collage or mixed media on paper or board. 

In my latest series, I have moved into solely colour and composition.

So here you can find:

Colour songs

Arctic impressions

Abstract landscapes