Life’s complicated and how we interact with one another can be complicated too. I represent the figure in my paintings with all it’s complexity either in how it relates to another figure in the painting or how it relates to an under painting.

In my mind we and the objects with which we share our space exist on several planes. I enjoy layering these planes, removing and highlighting aspects of each plane in an attempt to create a story.
Perhaps my story might be different from a story you may conjure by looking at how I've arranged these planes and their negative and positive space. That's fine. The point is that the painting conjures imagination.

Exhibitions

Aberdeen Enterprise Trust Fayre, Aberdeen Music Hall, Aberdeen UK, November 1993

Aberdeen Artist Society Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen UK, May 1994

Deeside Art Exhibition, Banchory Scotland UK, July 1994

Glassell Student Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Houston TX USA, June 2009

Lawndale Center, The Big Show, Juried Exhibition, Houston TX USA, July 2010

Art League Houston, Gambol, Juried Exhibition, Houston TX USA, November 2010

Glassell Student Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Houston TX USA, June 2011

Salon des Refuses, Gallery M Squared, Houston TX USA, July 2011

Archway Gallery, 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Houston TX USA, July/August 2011

Second Annual SAO Select Exhibition, Tradition Bank, Houston Tx, September 2011

Visual Arts Alliance, Twenty-Ninth Juried Open Exhibition, Houston TX, May/June 2012

The Glassell School of Art, 2012 Annual Student Exhibition, Houston TX, June/July 2012

Awards

Glassell School of Art, Materials Scholarship 2010

Glassell School of Art, The Ary Stillman Scholarship 2012

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Peter 30" x 30" Acrylic on canvas. I chose a graphic image of Peter because I feel it removes us from the reality of the figure and I feel removed from Peter. He is not painted but represented. The ground is dark, mysterious because Peter is somewhat mysterious. He is mysterious but he has splashes of brilliance.
Chillies ( revisited) 4' x 4' acrylic on Canvas. I reworked this painting by removing the white chalk lines which I found distracting and reducing the intensity of the colour in order to add white highlights.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010






Pushed, 48" x 72" Acrylic on Canvas
The idea behind "Pushed" is the desperation of homelessness. The subject is pushed into the corner. The ground of the painting is moving left to right but the figure resists and looks at us just as he's destined to reach the corner. He's not allowed to escape off the canvas or out of his situation.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Missing You, 5'x6', finished!

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Yell0w Rose , 48 x 48 ( unfinished 03.09.10)

Friday, March 5, 2010

Missing You, 60x48 (unfinished 03.05.10)

Monday, February 8, 2010

Currently Working On....

Missing You, 60x48, ( unfinished 02.06.10)
Missing You, 60x48 ( unfinished 02.04.10)
Mother, Daughter, Granddaughter ,20X20, acrylic on canvas. This painting is a sketch painting for "Missing You". But it depicts my mother, my sister and my niece at age 12.

Missing you intends to express the relationship between my mother and my son during the later stages of my mother's battle with alzheimer's disease. My son's image will be layered over my mother's.