acrylic and oils on collaged canvas, 150 x 100 cm
Continuing to paint my garden, on a bigger canvas, this is another corner, next to the studio door and the old shed. We have had glorious singing from the blackbird, he’s up on next door’s television aerial. And sometimes down in the flowerbeds and on the grass finding bugs. I am sorry to say there are not many worms in my garden.
IN THE BACK OF MY MIND (MAY GARDEN) One more in my garden series, oil over acrylic on linen, 2025, 122 x 91.4 cm.
This one is at Graystone Gallery in Stockbridge, Edinburgh this summer for their Festival show, I am very happy to say.
Acrylic and linen on a deep cradled panel, 40 x 40 x 5.5 cm, 2022
This one has the Gaelic words for waterlily scratched into the paint, and a patch of linen underneath. Duilleag-bhaite which means drowned leaf, and bhan is white. I am fascinated by the idea of a wilderness full of lily ponds. Of the hummocky glaciated ground and the Lewisian Gneiss under it riddled with dyke swarms in straight lines, lochans and small hills and pockets of bog. I am also trying to make brush marks which fly over the surface, using the brush taped to a cane much more lightly than I have before.
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 61 x 61 x 4cm, 2022
Dark pool reflecting mountain, and waterlilies, the counterpart of the shimmering blues of the first Waterlily lochan.
Acrylic and gold mica flakes on canvas, 50 x 50 cm, 2022
Continuing on the theme of the waterlily lochans, using blue glazing over black and gold paint, and incorporating the gold mica flakes. The drowning leaves, water flowers.
Acrylic paint, gold powder, charcoal and collage on canvas, 100 x 120 x 4 cm
In January I had a frightening experience in a blown down plantation of Corsican pine – the further I got into it the more difficult it became to get out again, and this has something to do with that.
the labyrinth listens in the dark
what coat I wear to lie down
in the fern bed
& the needle leaves –
Acrylic, mica flakes, pencil and charcoal on 2 canvases, diptych 80 x 120 cm, 2021
Acrylic, graphite and charcoal, and paper collage on cradled panel, 76.2 x 76.2 cm, 2021
Acrylic and charcoal on collaged canvas, 100 x 100 x 4 cm, 2021