I am a contemporary painter and collage artist based in Queensferry, working from a garden studio overlooking the Forth estuary. My practice is rooted in long-term observation of this landscape — its tidal rhythms, weather systems, geology, and shifting light — and the ways these forces shape both place and perception.

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The River Forth and its shoreline provide an ongoing framework for my work. Daily walks along the coast inform an evolving body of imagery that draws on memory, experience, and direct engagement with the environment. Living between my native Fife and Edinburgh, beneath the presence of the Forth Bridges, I work within a landscape marked equally by natural processes and human intervention.

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My current work occupies a space between representation and abstraction. Using collage, monotype, and layered acrylic washes on paper, I explore surface, gesture, and material as carriers of meaning. Handmade Japanese and Indian papers play an important role in the construction of the image, allowing texture and structure to actively shape the work.

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Alongside this ongoing engagement with the Forth estuary, recent travel in Japan has opened new visual and material dialogues that will inform future work. These influences sit quietly within the practice, extending rather than displacing my long-standing connection to the Scottish landscape.