A Lovely Start

A Selection

A bit of a disaster

After a public reading of one of my plays, some years ago, I learned that unless it’s done really well, an experimental work of art will seem amateurish rather than unusual, provocative, or avant garde, and the artist ends up feeling an idiot. So my latest painting was never going to work - because the scene in the distance was too small and the wrong shape to look anything but pathetic.

Hence, I decided to paint over it - even after I’d thought up the right title for it – and will shelve the idea for the perfect shaped (and bigger) canvas it deserves.

Now the canvas has a ‘history’ impregnated on its surface so it needs impasto . . . and I have just the right texture and idea to adorn it.

Come back some time to see what emerges. Better still, become a 'follower'.

'Fairytale' Dunnottar Castle

I feel a strong connection with Dunnottar Castle and this is important to me when it comes to creating a painting. My work comes mainly from observation, memory and the feeling I experience whilst there, although I’ll use reference photos and sketches as well. I walk on the coast often and the castle feels almost like ‘home’, being only a mile away.

I’ve painted Dunnottar a few times now but I really wanted to try a large canvas; and 24" x 32" (60cm x 80cms) is my biggest as yet. I also felt it time to edge closer to realism in the way of colour without trying to emulate a photograph.

This painting is going on display at the Inverbervie Art Show in the first week in April, i.e. 4th to 11th