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My painting Soulmates is featured for sale in the exhibition – images are below.
At Colinton Arts, Bridge Road, Colinton, Edinburgh
Dates for your diary – Friday 19th and Saturday 20th August 2022.
I’m super excited to have been invited into Colinton Arts to paint in their gallery over the weekend of 19&20 August during the Fringe 2022. Having sold 2 large paintings of the Pentland Hills in the gallery in their last exhibition, the gallery manager was keen to have me continue to paint further works in the same series. And of course, I was very keen to say yes!
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I had a great weekend, meeting art lovers from far and wide, whilst working on 2 paintings of the Pentland Hills Regional Park. A huge thank you to everyone who popped in and said hello – it was lovely meeting you all.
Hillwalkers will recognise the view of Carnethy, East and West Kip and Scald Law with the Glencorse Reservoir in the foreground.
#pentlandhills #glencorse reservoir
Work in progress – as painted at Colinton Arts (with thanks to Brian Nicholson for the use of his source images)Work in progress as completed at Colinton Artswork in progress – with thanks to Brian Nicholson for his source image
Colinton Art’s much anticipated Summer Exhibition launches on Saturday 23 July!
UPDATE – Two of my paintings have been bought in the exhibition and I’m so pleased they have found happy buyers and great homes.
Amazingly, one of them went to a collector who now has 4 of my paintings. That makes me want to start offering a loyalty scheme ! And a second painting went another went to a buyer who messaged me last night to say, “I just wanted to let you know that I successfully fulfilled an ambition today and purchased one of your paintings!! It’s Alone at Last and I love it”
I’m delighted that they have chosen 6 of my latest paintings to showcase in their gallery. These 6 pieces are on display from this Saturday. Want to escape the heat? Come down to Colinton Arts from 10am to 5pm; stroll around with a nice chilled glass of Prosecco in your hand. You won’t be disappointed – in addition to my work, there’s a great range of talented artists on display.
When people learn that I’m an Artist the first thing they always ask is, “what do you paint?”
I always think, “well, how long have you got?” since there’s no quick answer to that.
Perhaps the honest answer is that I paint what my heart loves
Sometimes, I’m creating seascapes of the East Lothian coast – I can’t get enough of the changing light, the reflections, the shadows in the sand or the colours.
Other times though, people grab my attention and I end up painting the humans and little humans who happened to be spending time at the coast when I was there.
Home for Supper
Perhaps you love old boats? I know very little about sailing but adore old fishing boats or little rowing boats. There’s something very beautiful in their old, tattered charm and so these pop up in some of my work in paintings of Anstruther, Pittenweem, Newhaven and North Berwick.
Landscapes feature a lot too; I really enjoy painting on cadmium red canvases, leaving selected areas of the underpainting to shine through which really pops against the predominantly lush, green landscape and across these pages you will find landscapes from Scotland and England and also Italy when I have been lucky enough to travel.
I have also started painting animals; I’m drawn to their eyes and how the light reflects in them. I always start with those and, if they feel like they are coming to life on the canvas then a new piece will be born on my easel.
Flowers feature, albeit briefly, but I hope do spend more time immersed in nature painting more of these.
In all of my work, light and shadow remain very important, as does the very process of mark making. I’m drawn to impressionist styles of painting but tend to the leave the work to unfold itself and so paint instinctively in a way that feels largely unconscious.
Mostly my work is on coloured canvas. For a long time, that was red though there are others now on black, cobalt blue, turquoise and cadmium orange too.
Girders No.1 (Oil on aluminium)
I hope you will enjoy browsing the images and will fall in love and give one of these pieces a new forever home.
