Hi - and welcome to my website. Please take the time to explore my site, and don't forget to check latest news! As a Scottish artist I am very aware of my rich painterly heritage the Scottish Colourists, the Glasgow boys and individual artists sush as Alexander Goudie, Stanley Cursiter and Sir Henry Raeburn, - all have played a significant role in the development of my own style of painting - as well as John S Sargent, Philip A de Laszlo, Anders Zorn, Joaquin Sorolla and American Artists such as John Howard Sanden.

The photo on the right is of me sketching in Raeburns' old studio, Edinburgh. By kind permission of Feathers Brooksbank, and a big thank you to, Lorraine Ross for taking the photo.

As a Christian I often feel that I should be doing more to glorify God in my art and have gradually come round to acknowledging the beauty of Gods creation in the landscape, people and wildlife. I feel that it is my duty to try and capture this through painting directly from the subject in front of me - not a slavish copy but an emotional response whether it is seals on sand banks, sunsets, the first fall of snow each year, or trying to capture something of the soul of a sitter through the application of paint with brush, palette knife - and more increasingly with my fingers tapping and moving the paints plasticity.

The painting opposite is of Cullen beach, 36"x36"

I enjoy teaching part-time for the Inverness art society and find that I am learning from fellow artists and hope I’m able to encourage them too. It is fun being round like-minded people.

I have, over the years, been commissioned by various private collectors, and I do like a challenge! - from such subjects as large-scale graffiti in a nightclub, the re-creation of a Hall of Ossian, to a six-foot Tina Turner for a fairground.  I often feel commissioned work leads me to exciting projects which I would not normally embark upon.

This charcoal study of a giraffe was done on the spot - this animal is so graceful and so elegant when it moves you can still sketch away - unlike a blue backed baboon swinging right in front of your face.