My current body of work, in keeping with my career as an abstract landscape artist, aims to capture the shifting mercurial patterns of water reflections. The rivers, lakes and oceans in my paintings are portrayals of those from my native Scotland, my new adopted home here in Canada and from travelling abroad.
I have always been drawn to water as somewhere to visit and somewhere to live, coming as I do from a small island nation. My love of its ever changing nature is balanced by my fear of and respect for its power and danger.
My process begins with the memory of the location that I am recreating: which colours had the most impact, how did the weather and season affect the scene, how was my mood and did it influence my viewing of the scene. The finished piece is thus as much a reflection of myself in the moment as of the place itself.
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light through trees
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lavender reflection
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red oaks
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maple morning #2
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light through trees #2
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red oaks #2
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maple morning
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spring waters
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lavender reflections #2
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sundown
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moonlight
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light through birches #2
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spring waters #2
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light through birches
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moonlight #2
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november #3
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ganges dawn #2
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november
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ganges dawn
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night swimming
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in flux
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east river
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november #2
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drift
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may
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provencal
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the dying of the light
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ashbridge
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13 island lake
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winter’s end #3
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still waters
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maple reflection #2
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maple reflection
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late in the day
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lake ice #2
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lake ice
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giverny #3
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giverny #4
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giverny
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bergen #2
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bergen
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becalmed
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avignon
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adriatic
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adriatic #2
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thames
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thames #2
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seine spring #2
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seine spring
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red barn reflection
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evening reflection
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13 island lake #2
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abscission
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vernal
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high park
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grenadier #2
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grenadier
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windermere
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windermere #2
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windermere #3
18″ x 18″
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