Acrylic on canvas-covered board, 2023, 30 x 30 cm. Example frame only.
On Lucklaw hill in North Fife there is a lovely wilderness of mixed trees and heath, some of it almost seems like Old Caledonian forest with blaeberry and Scots pine. There are larch growing naturally and large birch trees. On the way down off the top there are several large beech and sycamore with divided trunks making shady bare places with multiple branches and deep canopy. Here you might meet a roe deer.
Acrylic on canvas-covered board, 2023, 30 x 30 cm. Example frame only.
Painted in the slightly chilly studio on a late September afternoon, listening to the Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak – cannibalism – or was it? – 120 thousand years ago, sudden climate warming to warmer than today, temperate forests covering what had been chilly plains full of prey herds. Here’s our temperate forest with our hunter, in Scotland’s old oak woods at Kinclaven, not a cannibal though he does like red meat. Kernel, many-layered, from our walk at Kinclaven, Perthshire, in ancient woodland near the Tay.
Acrylic on canvas covered board, 2023, 20.3 x 15.24 cm.
This one is a little bit bigger, a second thought about this landscape, what it holds and what it is. The ambiguous horned figure comes from an early stage of the much bigger painting, Sometimes that holy feeling meets me in the forest.
Acrylic on canvas covered board, 2023, 17.8 x 12.7 cm. Sample frame only.
This one is so tiny! It’s very interesting to work on such a small scale.
Acrylic on canvas covered board, 2023, 20.3 x 20.3 cm.
Painted over many layers of abstract modulation and meditation, this resolved itself from our walk at Kinclaven, Perthshire, in ancient woodland near the Tay. It is already in an off-white frame.
Acrylic on panel, 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm. From our summer walk at Kinclaven, Perthshire, in ancient woodland near the Tay.
The deep edges are painted a similar colour to the mix of blue and purple in this painting, and Kindling is scratched into thick paint at the bottom.
SOLD. Acrylic on canvas covered board, 2023, 20.3 x 20.3 cm
I painted this on a board that’s already got layers of previous abstract painting on it and this shows through from scraping back. The medium used and the scraping changes the mood completely. From our summer walk at Balathie woods in Perthshire.
Acrylic on gesso panel, 2023, 25.4 x 20.32 x 19 cm SOLD
This one is from a walk we did in Balathie woods, August trees, the depth of greenness in oakwoods full of bracken. It’s a small green jewel and I painted the 19 cm edge with a bright blue to set it off.
Acrylic on board, 2023, 25 x 10 cm
At the moment I like to make at least two versions of a painting, starting with a watercolour. In this case there is a water colour (below in the sketchbook), this small one on board, a slightly bigger one on canvas, and the big one.
