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 and Philip A de Laszlo.

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.

 In Kenya I used watercolours on a grand scale because of transportation, and found it great fun. When an elephant stands on a watercolour, unlike an oil painting, it does not leave big colourful footprints all over the place!.

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 photo opposite is of Cullen beach, Feb 2008 I will finnish it of in the studio!

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.