Delighted to announce my next exhibition – SURFACE – at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, opening later this month! The exhibition is a culmination of work completed on the Professional Development Course run by the award winning Paintbox School of Art. You are invited to the Opening …
Art & Vintage Christmas Group Show 2021 will be on from Monday 6th December 2021 until Monday 17th January 2022 and I am delighted to be showing four new pieces of work in the show. Art & Vintage is a café situated in the Abbeyhill …
It’s been a few months since my last “proper” post and it makes me chuckle to think its subject was Resistance. One may imagine that not having blogged since then may have been caused by said Resistance! But that’s not true. The reason I haven’t …
I am happy to announce 15 of my pen and ink Wildlife Drawings will be featured in a Christmas Exhibition alongside the work of three other talented artists! All my work on display will be for sale. Never before have so many of my original …
I met one of my writing friends, Cecilia, at a series of workshops run by Jo Parfitt in The Netherlands a few years ago. Titled The Naked Writer, it consisted of six workshops where we delved deeply into our being to write from that space. …
I’d been wanting a new camera for a while as my old compact camera, my second hand DSLR and smartphone camera haven’t been able to take the sort of photos of birds I’d envisioned. Not quite capturing the finer details for me. Not like the …
Tomorrow, Friday 23rd June 2017, sees the start of the Rock Trust Postcard Art Exhibition and Auction and I am very excited to be a part of it. Money raised from the sale of my framed piece, Hello Deer Original Sketch, will go to the …
The other day I got up and went to one of my favourite cafes in the centre of Edinburgh to write and brainstorm a creative idea I’ve had for a while. I felt it was time to start acting on this impulse, because it wouldn’t …
Last Sunday I was honoured to host the fifth Questioning Creativity panel discussion at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh. The topic this time was Breathing Space, one of my favourite things to explore and talk about. Along with my four panel members – Chris …
On Saturday 12th September 2015 I will have a stall at the StockFlea 2015 market, which is part of StockFest 2015, a festival in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. Come along to say hi! I’ll be displaying my greeting cards and prints from the Winged Wildlife and Silky …