Pedal Power

Pedal Power

Here is another dispatch from my virtual curatorial residency at Diana’s studio. The freedom and aesthetics of cycling seem to revolve around her work. At least two watercolours and four paintings invite us to pedal through city centres and country lanes, even...
Sketching Sunflowers

Sketching Sunflowers

Seedling nurseries at the nation’s windowsills might be one of the pandemic lockdown subcultures. While watering my daughter’s sunflower buds this morning, I was reminded of Diana’s painting of ripe with seeds yet rather melancholic sunflowers here....
Curatorial Mentorship under Lockdown

Curatorial Mentorship under Lockdown

I am very pleased to share the good news that I was awarded a small professional development grant from VACMA – the Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award programme administered through Creative Scotland and City of Edinburgh Council. The award will enable me to work...
Waterlilies

Waterlilies

With the feature documentary Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Mattisse still on my mind, I have found the motivation to finish my new diptych of waterlilies rondos. Still wet and fresh off the easel, I offered these new paintings of mine for sale at £100 each as...
#artistsupportpledge

#artistsupportpledge

Edinburgh’s Cramond Beach is our favourite family place for walking and cycling and even more so in these troubled times. This watercolour of mine, featuring my bike parked on the Cramoind Beach promenade, is just one of my works selected to take part in the...
Painting the Modern Garden

Painting the Modern Garden

Did you catch the Facebook premiere of Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse based on the Royal Academy of Arts landmark exhibition, including masterpieces from Monet, Renoir, Pissaro, Sargent, and Matisse. It was a free broadcast courtesy of Exhibitions on...