"The starting point for my work is often a personal photograph, a found object; or an image collected from a magazine or newspaper.

I am fascinated by our relationship with images, the value we attach to them and their ability to evoke emotion. This relationship has changed with the ubiquity of digital technology. I recall the enjoyment of looking at family photo albums as a child and reflecting on the places I had visited. Now we are more likely to store away endless files electronically after a brief glance. This process is mirrored by our increasingly transient relationship with places, as our lives become busier and less appreciative of our surroundings. In my view the medium of painting affords the opportunity to add something more than a photograph can provide, such as a heightened sense of place, an atmosphere or insight. 

EDUCATION

• 1992–1996 BA(HONS) Fine Art Edinburgh College of Art (1st Class) 

• 1997–1998 MA in European Fine Art, Barcelona
   

PRIZES AND AWARDS

• 2021 VACMA Creative Scotland Artists Bursary award

• 2020 The Jane Gardiner Prize, Paisley Art Institute

• 2019 RSA Edinburgh Art Shop Prize

• 2019 Final Shortlisted Artist The Wesmorland Landscape Prize

• 2017 SSA Open Eye Gallery Exhibition Prize

• 2016 Moidart Trust Landscape Prize / RSA Art in Healthcare award

• 2012 Royal Glasgow Institute awarded the Crinan Artists Residency

• 2000 South London Press — Community Artist Award, Tate gallery, London
   

PAST EXHIBITIONS

• 2021 ‘Outside In’ Solo Show, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

• 2018 ‘Out There’ Solo Show, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

• 2017 Winter Show at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2017 All Square at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2017 Festival at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2016 Affordable Art Fair Bristol with Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2016 The Colour of Summer at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2015 Winter Show at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2015 Coast: Where Land Meets Sea at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2015 Affordable Art Fair Battersea with Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2014 Solo Show - Crinan Gallery, Crinan

• 2013 Prizewinner RGI, The Crinan Residency culminating in Solo exhibition 2014

• 2011 Passing Places, An exhibition of paintings & drawings documenting a year of road trips, Howden Park

• 2008 Viewpoints, Gateway Gallery, Shrewsbury

• 2002 Get Art, Artist in Education, Chisenhale Gallery, London

• Fastforward Young Homeless Art project, Oxford

• 1999–2000 Artist in Residence, Buckinghamshire Council

• Lost Property, Peckham Rye Train Station, London

• 1999 Mortlake, Southill Park

• Uncommon objects, Wandsworth Museum, London

• 1998 Inhabit, Panorama space, Barra De Ferro, Barcelona

• 1997 Unearthed, Artist in residence, The Grizedale Sculpture Park, Cumbria • 2015 Battersea Art Fair with Cameron Contemporary Art

• RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow

• The Crinan Hotel, April Show

• MS Revive Charity Exhibition, The Tall Ship, Glasgow

• 2014 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

• Affordable Art Fair, Bristol

• ONCA Gallery invited artist '100' Brighton

• Hampstead Affordable Art Fair with Cameron Contemporary Art Capital Collection, Cameron Contemporary Art

• Affordable Art Fair Battersea with Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2013 Christmas Show, Cameron Contempoary Art

• Rapanui Pop up shop, Glasgow

• The Autumn Collection, Cameron Contemporary Art

• 'Art of Nature' Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show

• 'Show us your Arts' Veneer Gallery, Glasgow

• 'First' A.Gallery, Glasgow

• 'Regeneration' A.gallery, Glasgow

• AAF Battersea, represented by Cameron Contemporary Art

• Society of Scottish Artists - RSA Edinburgh

• Bristol Affordable Art Fair, Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2012 RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow

• Edinburgh Art Fair

• Islington Art Fair, Candid Arts Trust

• RGI Mitchell Library, Glasgow, awarded the Crinan Prize

• AAF Battersea, Cameron Contemporary Art

• AAF, Bristol, Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2011 RGI Mitchell library, Glasgow

• 2010 RGI The Mitchell Library, Glasgow
   

COLLECTIONS

• Corporate — Aberdeen Asset Management, Malcolm Hollis

• Public — BBC Your Paintings website, Oil paintings in public ownership, Edinburgh College of Art, Grizedale Arts
   

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Hamilton Advertiser 'Horse Designs Are All Winners' May 2014

• Artists & Illustrators 'Featured Contributor' March 2013

• 'Who's Who In Art' Morven Press October 2012

• The Glaswegian 'Mums In Frame' September 2012