Back in January, I spent a wonderful few days at Camusdarach Beach on the west coast of Scotland. The weather was wild and wonderful; 8 of the paintings inspired by this visit have just gone on sale at Resipole Studios.
January evening, Camusdarach
I'm thrilled to be the subject of a feature in the June edition of Cumbria Life. They took some lovely photos of me, here are a couple.
With Mac, above High Ireby
At the studio
Sorry for the long delay since the last post. I'm just coming out of my winter hibernation, which has culminated, as usual, with a cross-country skiing trip to Finland.
I'm now making a start on this year's paintings. Following the renewal of my relationship with the North Cumbrian Fells last year, I'm concentrating again on the Scottish West Coast where a lot of my earlier work was based. Now that I'm based in Cumbria, I'm having to make more of an effort to visit those locations which I know offer the greatest inspiration, but that's no great hardship.
I have an exhibition planned in August, at the Birch Tree Gallery in Edinburgh. Its a wonderful, bijou gallery gallery on Dundas Street, the exhibition is called Beachcomings and runs from the 2 - 31 Aug. If you're going to be visiting the Festival, do pop in!
Finally, I'll shortly be exhibiting at a new gallery, Northern Makes in Bollington, Cheshire. This is a very new and exciting gallery which is rapidly making a name for itself and already exhibits a number of excellent artists.