Lots of stuff in my head – all the time. So my art can’t be complex or cluttered.

Born in Glasgow, spent most of my life there. 5 years in London then I retired to Hove. After nearly 40 years of office routine, suddenly I have time to make Art.

Art Foundation course at in Brighton Met (2014 – 2016), several short drawing and painting courses   (2016 -17) in London, then a Fine Art MA at Northbrook in Worthing (2017 – 2022). 

Since graduating, my art practice changes and develops. A passion for colour and paint. I experiment with various mediums and surfaces and at the moment I mostly play with collage. I love Japanese washi paper, painting, staining and layering.

Objects become straight lines, geometric shapes, colours clearly defined. In paintings and collages I move from representational to abstraction, but the recent Caravan Shop mural in Glasgow echoes the shapes of the objects in the wine bar.

Photographs of places inspire. I visit Japan, and I try to capture something of the shapes and colours of that very particular country.

Influences range from the abstract Concrete artists in Brazil in the 1960s (Helio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape), through artists working at the same time in St Ives in Cornwall (Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Wilhelmina Barns Graham) to contemporary artists like Hanne Borchgrevink in Norway and Gary Hume in the UK. All of these – and too many others to mention – are experts in abstracting from the physical entity.

But my favourite artist is Rembrandt van Rijn. He has been top for ever, I think.