Portfolio

Qualifications Printmaking

I gained an MA hons in Fine Art from Edinburgh University in 1984, specialising in painting and printmaing. I then went on to gain a place on the Graduate Enterprise course at Stirling University, graduating in 1985.

I became a member of the Edinburgh Printmakers in the 90’s, and continued working as a scenic artist and illustrator in the commercial sector. During this time I also continued to produce my own work using my handmade travelling diary sketchbooks, specifically designed for my own personal working style, and sketching in my chosen medium of watercolour.

This carried on while raising a family, developing my teaching skills through Community Education, taking part in several exhibitions. In 2007, after 15 years I then returned to Edinburgh University where I gained a PGdip and MSc in Community Education.

Throughout my career as I have always enjoyed passing on my creative skills, teaching in many community environments, including Galleries, Museums and community centres. Following my sons to meet them Antigua in 2020 I began working in a new printing medium, Cyanotype, inspired by the environment I was living in, and also continued with watercolour painting while continuing to teach privately.

I sell my original artwork and Giclee prints through galleries in Antigua but I am now offering the opportunity to make purchases through my online shop. All editions of giclee prints are printed to the highest museum grade level on handmade Hanhemule papers using archival inks.

Timeline

Training
MA hons Fine Art. Edinburgh University 1984, specialising in painting and printmaking PGdip and MSc Community Education Edinburgh University, 2007

Work experience
1985-1990. Essy Roberts. Designing and making kits and ready made clothes for children and ladies.

1990-2010 working as an illustrator and scenic artist. Clients included Royal Museums of Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Callendar House, Falkirk Museums, Royal Botanic Gardens, Bank of Scotland, the Salmon Board, Baxter’s. Weimar experience, National museums educational award for Pit Wynd (travelling exhibition)

Member of the Edinburgh Printmakers since 1988.

Produced a series of stone lithographs and etchings based on travels in Thailand, Italy, Spain, Turkey. Currently working with photography in the cyanotype medium creating a series of prints inspired by the sea and created in the sun.

1990 to present day. Teaching arts and crafts to children and adults, National Galleries of Scotland, Fruitmarket Gallery, Headway East Lothian, Leonard Cheshire Homes, Assynt Arts Burgess & Maclean, Secret Herb Garden

Provide private tuition and small classes in watercolour skills and have undertaken numerous watercolour commissions, Architectural and landscape.

Design and project managing of a barn conversion to become a whisky tasting room and an open plan office space.

Publications
Little Book of Scottish Castles
Maclean’s Whisky Wheel

Exhibitions
Stowells Trophy, RA London
DLI Art gallery and Museum
Edinburgh Printmakers
Fig Tree Art Gallery, Antigua
Rhythm of Blue gallery Antigua
Porty Artwalk (open art houses)

Sketchbook watercolours Thailand

Women of the Karen Tribe making traditional embroideries in a village on the Burmese Border, sketched in situ over the course of one day.

BURGESS & MACLEAN

Scenic artists large exhibition mural piece 2x3 metre mural on board for the Robert Louis Stevenson Exhibition.

Nasmyth

Custom built plinths with paint effects, individual oil and glaze paintings of working models in situ, in the style of Alexander Nasmyth. Callendar House, Age of Enlightenment, Permanent exhibition. Falkirk Museums.