Drawing a new tree in my sketchbook

It’s the way I get to know a tree, through a drawing made with it. It feels more like conversation than observation, and the memory of these intense moments stays with me.   I’m often asked if I use photographs as reference – the answer is both yes and no…

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Transforming

Making a film poem This time last year, I talked to my pal and collaborator Steve Smart about making another film together. Over the last couple of years we’ve worked on ‘Foraging’ about the way I find the trees which inspire my work and ‘Connecting’, which show how I get to know their individual characters […]

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Film

A series of short films about my creative process and the trees and writers which inspire it, made in collaboration with poet and film maker Steve Smart. Foraging Discovering the trees and the ideas which spark new work.   Connecting How I tune in to ‘tree-time’ and connect with my subject on woodland drawing trips. […]

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Exhibitions

  ‘Now and Then: Dalkeith Palace’ Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show (Part Two) 17th – 25th August at Dalkeith Palace, Midlothian Open 10am – 4pm daily. Free entry I’m happy to announce that two of my ‘Rivers of Oak’ drawings have been selected for ‘Now and Then: Dalkeith Palace’, the Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show […]

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