The Holly and the Ivy – for charity
Votive Offering - Holly and the Ivy(for protection, love and endurance)Holly, showing life even in the depths of winter, is a protective plant. In classical times Holly protected houses either as a bough above a door or planted around the house, the spiny leaves...
Winter Exhibitions 2020
I'm very pleased to have artworks in a number of winter/christmas exhibitions, please click on the links for more information: Firstly, 'Bring in the light', Tatha Gallery, Fife, where they are showing my 'Poesis' painting series including the one below, 'Votive...
Short Film Open Studios 2020
Delighted to present this short film to accompany this years 'Virtual Open Studio', a very short introduction to my studio and my work. Huge thanks to my friend Lizzy Hobbs who put it together for me incredibly quickly, truly a miracle that she managed to turn my...
Artists in Conversation – Live Zoom Event
To view the LIVE ZOOM ‘Artists in Converstion’ that I had with fellow Fife artists Helen Glassford and Kirsty Whiten on 10th October please click HERE. Speaking from our respective Fife studios three established, contrasting artists - inspired by plants and flowers...
Virtual Open Studio 10th & 11th October 2020
This weekend 10th & 11th October 2020 I am having my first Virtual Open Studio which will include the following : FILM - Presenting a (very) short film introducing my studio and my work, which I will post here on my BLOG and on social media. SHOP - Offering a...
‘Diod Anfarwaldeb’ – A Recipe for Immortality
You will be able to see this painting and the preparatory sketches at my next Open Studios event on 8th, 9th and 10th May 2020. This recently completed painting is called 'Diod Anfarwaldeb - The Draught of Immortality’, inspired by an ancient herbalist recipe for long...
‘Floragraphy’… a romantic offering
Buttercup : 'Radiance' - Your splendour shines like the sun ‘Floragraphy’ is the practical application of flower symbolism. Belonging to a more romantic age than ours, it uses flowers to convey meaning. Today modern technology offers texting, snapchat, all sorts of...
Yellow Flowers
There is something very spiritually uplifting about the radiance of yellow flowers, the energy with which the colour hits the back of your eye seems hard to capture. I love this quote from Winifred Nicolson about painting yellow flowers, one of my favourite painters,...
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
Happy New Year ! I was delighted to enter the new year with my artwork 'Votive Offerings - White' (below) exhibited in the Lower Galleries of The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh with The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW). Their exhibition runs...
Christmas Exhibitions 2020
This Christmas season I have artworks on exhibition in a number of galleries in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Argyll, including a range of different 'Votive Offerings' paintings both large and small. The galleries are listed below with links that show images of my works that...
Aura Suavis – Sweet Air
This post describes the inspiration and the development of this painting. It is inspired by a 'mind opening' herbalist recipe I came across in the wonderful book 'The Magic of Herbs' by David Conway. The recipe is called 'Aura Suavis', meaning sweet air and is for a...
The Minaiturists III Exhibition
These paintings are the size of a post-it note, 7.5cm square! Delighted to have these three tiny 'Votive Offering' posy paintings included in 'The Miniaturists III' exhibition at The Scottish Gallery . They are true to scale paintings of posies of wild Wood Sorrel,...