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I am a landscape artist based in the Mearns in the North East of Scotland.

Working almost exclusively in watercolour and following in a tradition of Scottish Landscape Painting, I paint on the spot whenever possible though I often complete work in the studio - or indeed develop work from sketches and photographs. However, I enjoy working directly from nature and I do this whenever I can..

I tend to work on a series of paintings linked either by theme or location. Each season I re-visit the previous year's painting spots but I also try to explore a new area or one where I haven't worked for a while. Once I feel comfortable with a particular location, I spend time re-visiting the place. I might take some digital photographs and I certainly make sketches of possible viewpoints, subjects and compositions. This allows the images to 'settle' in my mind so that by the time I begin the actual painting, I am fairly sure of the direction I want it to take. I have never sought to make radical changes to my painting style; I try to let the work develop gradually. People tell me it has.

'...a celebration of ordinary things: dark lines of trees against the heat of a July afternoon, field patterns in early August, the washed out dried grasses of a late September field edge. And always the light itself, constantly changing under unpredictable skies...' (Tolquhon Gallery Catalogue)