Art Portfolio

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2024

Plant studies

In July, my partner and I officially launched our own blends of Speciality teas in the Hebrides. Here is a collection of my plant studies some of which made their way onto the packaging.

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2024

January - June

A collection of paintings documenting the atmosphere of some of my favourite places to spend time on the Isle of Mull: Laggan sands, Lochbuie, Calgary beach and the Abbey on Iona.

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2022 - 2023

The Moon from Mull

The dynamic light and dark skies in the Hebrides provided inspiration for this moonlit series of landscape paintings.

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2021 - 2023

Summers turning into autumn

A selection of paintings documenting life as I found my feet on the Isle of Mull, exploring nearby ancient sites and getting to know my favourite mountain - Benbuie.

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2018 - 2020

Grief

This series of paintings proved to be an outlet, part of the process of confronting tidal waves of my own grief, each piece is also infused my research into funghi, nuclear waste and the memory of water.

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2016 - 2019

Cloud Cuckoo land

A symbolic response to the surreal nature of the time, paper cutouts, collage and mandala paintings investigate the hypnotic political landscape and language of politicians hands.

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2016 - 2018

Toxic waste

During this time my research and paintings honed in on trees with carrier bags for leaves, plastic in the ocean from polyester garments, the destruction caused by single use plastics and being overloaded with statistics...

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