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Art Skye Showcase 2026 I am now a member of Art Skye and have a wee page on their lovely website, featuring the many artists and craftspeople, living and working in Skye and Lochalsh. www.art-skye.co.uk This year will be the second time I have participated in their annual showcase – ...

It is lovely to be invited to participate in the first exhibition of 2025 at the Crane Court Gallery, London; a new, exciting gallery and meeting place just off Fleet Street. A Scottish Symphony: Form and Colour showcases the work of twelve artists with their hearts in Scotland, presenting work ...

NORTH exhibition 2022 I am very pleased that one of my newest sculptures, ‘An Echoing Silence’, has been selected for NORTH, the first exhibition of Visual Arts Scotland’s Compass exhibition programme: a series of Members Exhibitions connecting the North, South, West and East of Scotland and held at Inverness Creative ...

Taking advantage of a trip down south to see family and friends, I will be delivering four sculptures – ‘Whisper’, ‘Deep in My Silent Heart’, ‘Hidden in the Fog of Time’ and ‘Drifting’ – for the Creative Coverage exhibition at Ilminster, Somerset. This is a mixed show of Creative Coverage ...

Cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid crisis, my Inverewe Artist Residency colleague, poet and author Mandy Haggith, finally has her exhibition, Trees Meet Sea, restored this Spring, at the Sawyer Gallery, Inverewe Garden. Mandy has a fascination for that magical and shape-shifting zone between ocean and land, and has ...

I’m pleased to be included in the first exhibition of 2022 at the Old Bakehouse Gallery. The show aims to showcase natural materials such as wood, ceramics, stone, etc. and I will be exhibiting five works, including ‘Leaf: Winds Blow, Rivers Flow’ and the small, but perfectly formed, ‘Gust’. From ...

Following my participation in the SURGE exhibition last Autumn, run jointly by Visual Arts Scotland and the Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay, I was pleased to receive an enquiry from the gallery in early January. They had a confirmed buyer for Great Wave, which has now left the studio to reside in ...

Elemental and Botanical My latest solo exhibition is at the Steadings Gallery, Balmacara, Lochalsh. It features abstract works influenced by the wild highland weather, together with smaller, recently carved stylised botanical sculptures. The latter are influenced by my participation in the Inverewe Garden residency in 2019. I will be at ...

Listen to me talk about my passion for stone carving with interviewer Tim Saunders of Creative Coverage, in a series of podcasts about artists and their work. To listen:https://anchor.fm/creative-coverage/episodes/The-attraction-of-stone-ep6mgg

I have recently joined Creative Coverage, a PR and marketing partnership promoting selected artists and craftspeople. As a response to the Covid-19 crisis, they have started a YouTube channel featuring videos of their artists talking about their work. Included there is, ‘In the Shelter of Your Arms’, a 10 minute ...