New work
In the Water, 16.5x15cm, mixed media on paper. I’ve been pretty quiet for the past several months – not just here but all over the place. I wasn’t making tons of art, at least not finished pieces, but...
View ArticleMissing Faces
Untitled work in progress, mixed media. I love painting and drawing faces. Portraiture has always been a big part of my artistic practice. So why have faces been missing from so much of my recent work?...
View ArticleArt for a cause
Victoria Street Edinburgh. Available. If you subscribe to my newsletter or follow my Facebook page, you may already know that my husband’s leukemia has recently returned. The first time he was sick, in...
View ArticleArt Every Day Month 2016
Two Figures, Armless; mixed media on paper. Available. Art Every Day Month is here again! I’ve been participating for most of the past 11 years (the first time was way back when I lived in...
View ArticleWell that went by quickly
(To start by stating the obvious) November is at an end already. I’ve been doing my best to fit in creative time when I can. Most days it’s just a bit of drawing in my sketchbook. Here are a couple of...
View ArticleOf mixed media and Glaswegian hospitals
Be(d)side, 56x42cm, mixed media on paper. I’m still hanging out in Glasgow these days, away from my studio. My husband and I have been here since mid-November, when he checked into the hospital for his...
View ArticleReemerging
My husband died a month ago. I’ve been rather quiet online since then, busy with paperwork and grief and more paperwork (death brings so much paperwork, especially if you’ve lived in several...
View ArticlePractising
Work in progress with kitten. It has been over two months since my husband died. I am through the worst of the paperwork and other post-death responsibilities, and my life is starting to get molded...
View ArticleA Woman’s Place and what comes next
Cat Lady Club (Initiation), mixed media on paper. Available. Way back in August, I had an exhibition called A Woman’s Place. It included around 40 paintings and mixed-media pieces of mine – probably...
View ArticleGetting back to the studio with a 100-day challenge
How to start my first post in almost three years? Jump right in, I suppose. I haven’t spent much time in the studio for the past few years. I missed it. I wanted to get back to making art, but I was...
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