Almost all my earlier work is figurative. Glasgow offered a rich seam of new faces, quite unlike the people I grew up with in the countryside. I had no ambition to paint realistic landscapes or still lives and found ways to play with these as flat pattern or colour experiments.

Purely abstract colour pieces followed and then latterly, ideas for installations, such as my colour sudoku.

In between, I continued to find subject matter in the people I saw around me – often on trips to France or Italy.

This is a flavour of what caught my eye. And because summer is – hopefully! coming, I thought I would give it a bit of encouragement.

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.