I have been shortlisted for the Scottish Landscape Awards! exhibiting at City Art Centre Edinburgh from November
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Join me (and daughter!) for a 4 minute tour of my solo exhibition, Mostly Air
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Solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings at The Scottish Ornithologist’s Club, Donald Watson Gallery. 7 June - 30 July
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A few pages from a sketchbook I made whilst working as ORCA Wildlife Officer onboard a ship bound for Nuuk, Greenland.
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Wedding Trees: A series of screen-printed trees from important periods of life shared with Shenaz, made as part of our wedding celebration this Summer
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Residential nature drawing course hosted by Clayhill Arts in Somerset with tutors Chris Wallbank and Nik Pollard this September
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I will be exhibiting at the The Society of Wildlife Artists' 58th annual exhibition, The Natural Eye at Mall Galleries, London from 14th - 24th October.
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Read MoreThe eider seem to welcome this freshly drained land like an old friend. As one they clamber up its banks and nestle into matts of padded bladder wrack. Chicks bubble up everywhere, tumbling through the seaweed to keep up with the adults
Join Chris Wallbank for this online course using film, including the tutor’s own footage of wildlife, to transport us into the great outdoors.
Tuesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 March 2021
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Read More“For Chris, his exploration of visual art’s role in presenting new angles on ecological themes, has led to involvement with many conservation projects and makes him a very deserving winner of The BIRDscapes Gallery’s Conservation Through Art Award.”
Read More“Geese settling in to roost on the estuary at dusk has been a favourite subject of mine lately... Usually I never quite know how the drawings work out until I get them home into the light.”
Read More“Birdsong and blue sky sum up the early days of lockdown for me when I made a series of drawings, using pastel colours, marks and direction on a circular format to map out birdsong from dawn to dusk”
Read More“Thank you everyone who visited Wales Contemporary at the Waterfornt Gallery, I am over the moon to hear Guillemot Stack has been voted for the visitors’ choice award 2019”
Read More“Stillness brought perfectly mirrored bird forms floating across darker reflections, rain formed patterns and debris became exciting forms and shapes”
Read More“I am delighted to have been presented the award for a work by an artist born living or educated in Wales, for my drawing, Guillemot Stack, Castlemartin at Wales Contemporary this year”
Read More“Exhibition Dates: Mall Galleries; 17 - 22 Sep 2019, Town Hall Arts Trowbidge, 5 Oct - 9 Nov, Guildford House Gallery, 16 Nov - 2 Jan 2020”
Read More“The kites are one by one placed on the ground and fly up into the sunset. I thought this would be a fitting end to the days work, but was soon to discover Saud and Nadeem's work had barely begun”
There is an impromptu market of food stalls and livestock sellers drawing a busy crowd whilst rows of taxiwallas spill out onto the busy Delhi suburb commuter roads at this major junction. Painting draws a mammouth crowd and most of my work is done looking over heads and gaps between waves of fresh onlookers.
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The most obvious landmark in this place is a rubbish dump which has grown into a staggering 200 feet high hill. A reasonable sized hill in a flat landscape, a Bass Rock built of rubbish. Directly to the North at the foot of the dump is Delhi's main fish market
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Read More“A few stops down on the metro, the sun rises over Chatterpur. Black kites lift with the gradually warming air. Commuters emerge onto the street and the roads slowly fill as shadows retreat, noise levels increase”