Scottish Artist

Artist Statement

I am a visual artist and life-long resident of Edinburgh (moving only within a three mile radius of my old childhood home).

My work is a form of personal archaeology, weaving in family connections to long remembered landscapes, cherished pottery ware and precious garden plants as a meditation on loss, absence and change. I seek to understand and convey place, or the sense of home, ‘presence’ and remembrance, of something being revealed or concealed.

​I work mostly on paper, manipulated with layers of mixed media to create subtle, richly textured surfaces. I sometimes allow sections of the work to fade, as memory can, with little definition, using soft muted colours. This is offset by a sense of presence and solidity elsewhere, thanks to the textural layered mark-making and strength of colour.

My intention is to create a sense of quiet stillness in which the viewer may linger.