“My work explores the connection between landscape and emotion.”

I am a Iandscape painter living in rural Aberdeenshire, in the north east of Scotland. My work explores the complex relationship between emotion and the wild and remote places where I have been fortunate to spend much of my life.

I spend my time in these landscapes and allow the feel of them to soak into my bones. Then I return to the studio, put the sketchbooks and photographs away and take time to allow those landscapes to re-emerge as they see fit. It is a very intuitive way of working. I am fascinated by how landscapes affects emotion, and how emotion affects the expression of landscapes in my paintings.

My work has been shown in galleries across Scotland and at annual exhibitions of the RWS & the RI in London and the RSW in Edinburgh.