A visual artist, primarily a painter, I connect with place and paint, slowly.
This year, exhibitions opened in March at the Whitehouse,
in Kirkcudbright, with 'Dreaming in Colour' and 'Memories & Imagination'
at Caerlaverock Wetland Centre.
Spring Fling Open Studios took place on 25, 26, & 27th May
at Gelston Village Hall, near Castle Douglas.
Brewery Arts in Kendal selected a painting for their Open Exhibition
held throughout June & July.
'After the Rain' at Hallbankgate Hub near Brampton, in September
and October, was a collaboration with textile artist Rachel Phillimore.
There are new paintings in Gracefield Arts Centre Craft Shop
from November 2.
At the Upland Made Art & Craft Fair, I shared a stand
with ceramicist Julian Francis,
raku pot Julian Francis
I use a range of media and materials.
Small pencil and watercolour paintings are completed in the landscape.
More complex pencil and watercolour drawings and oil paintings on canvas,
using knives and brushes, are made in the studio over a period of months.
As a series develops, memory and imagination take over,
the abstract qualities of colour and form must balance. There will be revisions ….
layers of paint maybe scraped away, more added …. It is rarely straightforward.
CV
- BA Fine Art, Liverpool College of Art
- BA Art History & Philosophy, Open University
- Between 1998 & 2017, in Dumfries & Galloway, teaching adult art classes, setting up galleries & curating exhibitions.
- Since 2017 lived in Westmorland, concentrating on my own work.
- Regular 'Spring Fling’ participant, Dumfries & Galloway's open studio trail..
- Member of 'Upland' artists' network.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2024 'Dreaming in Colour ' Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright
'Memories & Imagination' Caerlaverock Wetland Centre
'Spring Fling 2024' Open Studio Event at Gelston
'Brewery Arts Open Exhibition' Kendal
'After the Rain' Hallbankgate Hub, Cumbria
'The East / West Show' Gracefield Craft Shop
2023 Spring at the Hive, Nenthead, Cumbria
'New Beginnings' Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Shap Outdoor Festival, The Old Courthouse, Shap
'Canvas & Clay', Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright
Spring Fling Open Studio 27, 28 & 29 May at Gelston Village Hall
‘Pathways & Journeys’ The Hub, Eskdalemuir, Langholm
'Open Exhibition' Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Art & Craft Fair, 22 & 23 September, Quaker Tapestry Museum, Kendal
'Floribundance' Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
Upland Made Art & Craft Fair, Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries
2022 'Spring Fling 20th Anniversary Exhibition' Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
Spring Fling Open Studio Trail, Gelston
'Gathering Place' The Old Courthouse, Shap, Cumbria
'Autumn Gathering' Wildlife & Wetland Trust Visitor Centre, Caerlaverock
Upland Made' Art & Craft Fair, Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries
'Christn*s' at the Craft Shop, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
'Christmas Art & Craft at the Hive' Nenthead, Cumbria
2021 'Days Without End' WWT Caerlaverock, Dumfries & Galloway
& Old Courthouse Gallery, Shap
2020 'High Summer’,The Hive, Nenthead
2019 Material Worlds’ Old Courthouse, Shap
Solo exhibition, The Hub, Eskdalemuir
‘Fold in the land – and the sea!’ Woolfest, Cockermouth
Frameworks & Cushions, Gracefield Craft Shop, Dumfries
2018 ‘Lands in Between’ The Hub, Eskdalemuir
‘Postcards for Iona’ Iona Craft Shop, Argyll
Viridian Gallery, Keswick
Lakes Artists, Grasmere
‘Fold in the Land’ Woolfest, Cockermouth
Otterburn Gallery, Dumfries
2017 ‘Summer Exhibition’ The Lakes Artists Society, Grasmere
‘Cumbrian Artist of the Year’ Rheged Gallery, Penrith
‘Home’ Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright
2016 ‘Frost & Fire’ Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
‘Winter’ Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright
‘Postcards 2016’ Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh
2015 ‘React/Reflect/Respond’ Perth Museum & Art Gallery
‘The Eye of the Beholder’ Friends Gallery, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick
2014 ‘Same But Different’ Art Fair, Temple Newsam, Leeds
‘Coast’ Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder
‘Narratives’ Coldstream Gallery, Berwickshire
‘Catchment’ Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries & The Mill on the Fleet, Gatehouse
COMMISSIONS
2021 Highlighting Eden ‘Light Up Eden'’ commission & temporary installation in public space.
2010 House for an Art Lover, Glasgow - two paintings purchased for their permanent collection
2009 Renal Unit, Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary [Three paintings 'Nithsdale Triptych']
2005 Alexandra Unit, DGRI