Statement
When I am out in the landscape I am aware of an energy, a vibrancy that pervades all things. Each item has its own sense of being. Outdoors, this sense of being appears to be magnified so that the forms in the land can seem to be alive. Standing stones have a presence, trees seem to be listening, and mountains have personality, sometimes like a brooding animal or sleeping peacefully, but always alive. Weather and nature, and sometimes man, have left their marks. My work is about these things. I make marks on clay and manipulate it, using earthy surfaces and glazes. I also enjoy how changing light conditions change mood.
I am interested in making forms in ceramic that derive from the landscape and contain something of this energy and sense of being alive.
I practise from a studio at Dyce, a few miles outside Aberdeen at the above address. Visitors are welcome, by arrangement.
Exhibitions
Scottish Potters Assn. Broughton Gallery: University of Wales Institute Cardiff MA Exhibition; Milton Gallery, Milton of Crathes Aberdeenshire; Potfest at Perth; SPA at Collins Gallery; Glasgow: Culross Gallery, Fife; Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington; North East Open Studios; Gallery Heinzel Aberdeen; The Green Gallery Aberfoyle; The Stirling Smith Art Gallery; Strathearn Gallery, Crieff; Aberdeen Artists 2008,Aberdeen Art Gallery. Aberdeen Atrists 2009
Galleries where work has been or is being shown Artisanat Perth; Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen; Just Art, Fochabers; Larks Gallery, Ballater; Milton Gallery, Milton of Crathes, Aberdeenshire; Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington; Collins Gallery Glasgow; Culross Pottery and Gallery; Platform 22 Torphins.