Studio Number: 6
What3Words: ///sofa.forklift.huddled
I'm a linocut printmaker and patchwork quilt maker. I also enjoy watercolour painting especially when travelling and often use my sketches as inspiration for prints. I'm also fascinated by the nature around me and am currently trying to paint all the small creatures I find in my garden. In the dark winter evenings my love of colour translates well to handsewing and creating patchwork quilts.
75% of any proceeds from my sales are divided equally between the charities Scottish Refugee Council and Children First.
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Metalwork Sculptures
I grew up on the Isle of Lewis and, after 4 years at Camberwell School of Arts, lived on Orkney for 19 years. This enabled my love of fishing, diving and the sea to combine with my developing skills in metalwork. I use traditional, age-old metal work techniques with pewter, copper, bronze and goldleaf, to produce contemporary and unique pieces of art, mainly of fish and the marine environment. My artistic endeavour is to observe and capture fleeting moments of nature, from the calm and tension before a trout strikes to the pure excitement of the sudden, synchronised turn of a mass herring shoal. I express an emotional response to something very private, a moment shared between human and nature, suggesting a balance and a suspension, using the brooding colours of the background to saturate the work with a contemplative stillness.
Photography
I am a photographer using mostly a large format camera with transparency film. Reflecting on my aims early on, I summed them up with the phrase: I make images with the landscape not of it. Much of my work has been in the Highlands and especially in Glen Etive. I aim to make images capable of various levels of interpretation.
