Almost all my earlier work is figurative. Faces have always fascinated me. As a child, I filled the margins of my school jotters with copies of the faces in “Girl” magazine (remember it!).

Later I found I could draw real faces and figures from my memory of seeing people in passing. These drawings are not “portraits” but were sparked by real encounters. They are mostly female, but not exclusively – here is a selection.

Lastly, two installation pieces are included. Hannah Ann’s Box was made for Pollok House in 2012, to celebrate the collection of scrapbooks made by Lady Maxwell – it contains items she might have used such as a glue pot and brush and tiny scissors, but the “scraps” are contemporary, culled from the printed media of the current time, in 2012. Part of the installation included two chests full of the discarded “cuttings” of her labours over several years.

The “sudoku” installation was shown in the Society of Scottish Artists exhibition on the Mound in Edinburgh in 2013. It featured in the show catalogue and received favourable comment in the Scotsman.

1971 Diploma in Drawing&Painting from Glasgow School of Art

Taught art until 2004

Selective Exhibitions at RGI, Glasgow, RSA Open, Edinburgh, RSW, Edinburgh 2010-2012

Installations at Pollok House, Glasgow 2012 and SSA, Edinburgh 2013

Delivered art/print/animation/interactive workshops to children and adults 2007-2014

System under direction of key units    on the simplest level, this is colour sudoku. It arose from my interest in system based process and colour relationships.

I substituted the nine digits commonly used in sudoku, with colour values: 3 primary, 3 secondary, 3 neutral and allowed the nine colours to self arrange using the same mathematical constraints as the puzzle.

The installation was exhibited at the Society of Scottish Artists annual exhibition in March 2013. The piece is interactive and during the course of the exhibition, the colour puzzle was reset daily.