I am a landscape artist, based in rural Aberdeenshire, northeast Scotland. I am constantly exploring the relationship between emotion and the wild and remote places where I have been fortunate to spend much of my life.

I spend time walking, sketching, photographing and increasingly simply opening the senses and allowing the feel of these landscapes to soak into my bones. Then I return to the studio, put the sketchbooks and photos 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 landscape affects emotion, but also how emotion affects the expression of landscapes in my paintings.

I paint with watercolours – a medium I love for its luminosity, immediacy and its unpredictability. There is a constant tension between control and release when painting with watercolour. The whole thing is thrilling.

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