The natural environment of Orkney is strongly influencing my recent work, particularly the constant, dynamic movement of water and weather. I am thinking a lot about what it means to live on an island surrounded by the wide sea horizon, and experiencing that as a kind of radical openness and connectedness to the world; an island understood as open rather than insular, a shoreline as a permeable and shifting meeting point, rather than a fixed boundary.
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Summer Sea Fog, iridescent ink, pigment ink and gesso on paper, 31cm x 41cm
Floating Edges, pigment ink and gesso on cradled poplar, 41cm x 51cm
Dispersal, pigment ink, tea and gesso on cradled poplar, 41cm x 51cm
Wintry Shower, pigment ink and gouache on paper, 20cm x 20cm
Pale Wave, pigment ink and gesso on cradled poplar, 41cm x 51cm
Cloudy, pigment ink and gesso on cradled poplar, 41cm x 51cm
Green Wave, pigment ink and gesso on paper, 58cm x 93cm
Breaker, pigment ink and gesso on pine board, 30cm x 35cm
Incoming Tide, pigment ink, gesso, gouache on paper, 50cm x 70cm
Birsay Pool, pigment ink, gesso and gouache on plywood, 30cm x 42cm
The Strand, pigment ink and gesso on pine board, 40cm x 85cm
Winter Wave, pigment ink, gesso and gouache on plywood, 30cm x 43cm
Deeper Water, iridescent ink, pigment ink, gesso, gouache on paper, 30cm x 40cm
Sea Lustre, iridescent ink, pigment ink, gesso, gouache on paper, 31cm x 38cm
Sea Haar, iridescent ink, pigment ink, gesso, gouache on paper, 31cm x 41cm
Squall, pigment ink, gesso, gouache on paper, 70cm x 98cm
Spray, pigment ink and gouache on paper, 20cm x 20cm
Cold Plunge, pigment ink, gesso, gouache on cradled poplar, 41cm x 51cm
Cold Wave, pigment ink, gesso, gouache on paper, 58cm x 80cm
White Water, pigment ink, gesso, gouache on cradled poplar, 41cm x 51cm
Rain Coming On, pigment ink, gesso, gouache on pine board, 30cm x 30cm
Winter Pool, pigment ink, gesso on plywood, 30cm x 42cm
Rockool, pigment ink, gouache and gesso on paper, 32cm x 49cm
North Shore, pigment ink, gesso and gouache on paper, 44cm x 57cm