‘From Leith to Leith’

My working life began as a Cordon Bleu cook for Prue Leith in London.  I then taught at a school in the Barbican before moving on to Colorado to be a ski instructor for two seasons.  On returning to London I had my own decorating business and later worked for a firm of City architects doing office design and space planning in commercial offices.  Throughout this time I sketched and played with colour. In 1993 I married and moved to Scotland and began seriously to think about painting.

I now paint from a studio in Edinburgh and of all the things I have done painting is without doubt the most absorbing, frustrating, satisfying, and demanding.

Water and deserts fascinate me, so do sounds, smells and colours.  So too do people going about their daily lives.  I take in the plays of light in skies, on land and on water and the atmospheres of places at home and abroad.  With oil paint mixed with beeswax I set out my impressions of what attracts my attention and my senses.

Solo Exhibition:
2011 Leith School of Art

Mixed exhibitions:
Anthony Woodd Gallery, Edinburgh
Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh
The Gallery at Macnaughtan’s Bookshop, Edinburgh
Lymphoy House Exhibition, Edinburgh
Kirkbride Gallery, Innerleithen

Painting Courses
1990-1991 Open College of Art course in Art and Design
2002-2003 Painting Course at the Leith School of Art with Paul Martin
1996 – 2010 Intensive short courses at Gleneagles, on Mull and in Syria with Eleanor White and part time courses at the Leith School of Art