My aim is to create fresh and energetic drawings of the natural world through direct and immediate mark making. Both sensitive and visceral, I want my drawings to capture fleeting moments and experiences in nature. I mostly work outside, focussing on the things that capture my attention within landscape and the wildlife that inhabits it.
Artist's Statement......
My current work is a celebration of trees, of their beauty and magnificence within the natural world. My aim is to communicate the joy, energy and expansiveness I feel when I am outdoors, surrounded by nature and in the woodlands near my home.
Spending time in the outdoors is a therapeutic experience, which can be refreshing and energising and it is the essence of these experiences that I want to stir within the viewer.
My work begins with many drawings made from life, some of these are completed on site others will be reference material for paintings made in the studio.
I often like to work on a heavily prepared surface of mark and colour, which is later revealed in surprising and unexpected ways in drawings or between the layers of paint. Through the use of spontaneous marks and and colourful textures I aim to reflect the wild and untamed complexities in nature and capture for the viewer the essence of being in among the trees and their ever changing, evolving life.
When I am drawing and painting I am totally absorbed in the moment, which is why I love it so much.
C.V
‘Now and Then’, Visual Art Scotland, Dalkeith Palace, Summer 2024
‘Creative Freedom’, John Muir Trust, Pitlochry, Spring 2024
Scottish Scottish Ornithologists’ Club, Aberlady, Summer 2020, Summer 2023
‘Elements’, The Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, June 2023
The Natural Eye, Society of Wildlife Artists, Mall Galleries, London; October 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Found Gallery, Dunbar; Summer 2018, Spring 2019, Winter 2020, 2021/22, 2023, 2024, 2025
The Marchmont Gallery, Edinburgh; 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2025
Work selected for ‘The Edinburgh Art Book’, BENNETT, E.,ed. The Edinburgh Art Book, UIT/ Green Books, Cambridge, June 2019
Bursary Winner (Society of Wildlife Artists) John Busby Seabird Drawing Course, Summer 2018
ArtWalk Porty, Portobello; Autumn 2018, 2019
Field Trips to Isle of May, Spring 2017, 2018, 2022
Number Four Gallery, St Abbs, Eyemouth, 2017-2018
Field Trip to the Shaint Isles, Spring 2017
Primary and Secondary Art and Design Teacher, East Lothian (2004-2016)
Teaching Degree in Art and Design from Edinburgh University, Moray House 2004
Graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1998.
I live in Edinburgh with my husband and two children.
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