Scottish contemporary artist
My 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.
Image (top): Recalibrating, Plants & Pots series 2024, mixed media on paper, 20cms x 14.5 cms.