This blog explores how Japanese aesthetics have influenced my artistic practice and a little of how they resonate with me personally.

I first became aware of Japanese aesthetics as a student at Newlyn School of Art, when I asked about how we can approach evaluating our own work as artists…

I am fascinated by composition and at one time my paintings were full and busy with detail. Currently I love to play with composition and discover how sometimes little is needed to give the eye, the brain and if I got it right; the heart to explore. The ‘Beith’ series of prints in my Trees portfolio…

This autumn I have been developing my monotypes and what started in my mind as rocks have been honed into pebbles. My initial thinking came from my impressions of the rocks in The Fish Trap in Torridon…

Over the last year everything about my art-making has re-set. It has shifted from large-scale calm vistas of imagined landscapes to a slower more considered and contemplative mood and scale. I recently…