well... it has been a while since my last blog and it really has been a strange few months! very briefly, heres what's been happening...

On July 13th i awoke to my flat in flames, the fire took with it 5 years of paintings, drawings and sketchbooks, this was probably the most surreal experience of my life thus far, even more so was finding myself living in the hills just two days later! i have since returned from no mans land and taken a road trip across Romania, I am now home and about to embark on a few different commissions, so there will be new images coming very soon!

Mother and daughter, september 2010

Kerry and Kate Leitch, commisioned by Roderick Leitch, owner of the Kings House Hotel, Glencoe.
oil on canvas

Dundee College Summer School

From the Monday 21st to Friday 25th of June i will be teaching a life painting class at the Graham Street campus of Dundee College, the course has been ILA approved and costs £130 per person, please follow this link for more info
http://www.dundeecollege.ac.uk/getmedia/adbf8e33-19df-4395-b7e4-08360e201780/CreativeSummerDrawA5.aspx

Axolotl Gallery

I have just come across this new gallery on Dundas Street, Edinburgh and am really excited by the kind of works they are promoting, they are championing new artists/ recently graduated artists from all over the world and are particularly interested in figurative works and works that are narrative in nature, check out Kirsty Whiten's large scale paintings, they are incredible! soo I have written to the gallery along with some images of my work in the hope that they may consider me for any upcoming exhibitions... fingers (and toes) crossed!

I have recently been shortlisted for the Best of the Uk new graduates at the 'Salon Contemporary' Gallery in Nottinghill, London out of 1000 artist just 20 of us were asked down to London to present our works to a panel of 4 art critics and collectors in a rather 'X factor' styley. This was a great opportunity and an exciting challenge.

'New Faces'

Here are a few photographs from the opening of 'New Faces' at The Leith Gallery, on the Shore in Edinburgh, the exhibition is running until the 27th of February.

Espana

Aqui hay unas fotos de Cuenca, Granada, Madrid y El Robledo con Manolillo, estos son fotos de 2008 y 2009.

i found these photo's from the Visions install, and as it's the only full view photograph i can find of 'The Huntress' I thought i'd pop them up.

2010

2010 has arrived, a fresh new decade, and time to make a plan me thinks!
It has been a good few months now since graduation and i am feeling that perhaps i should write a list of the things that i would really like to accomplish within the next few months ...well at least in the next year!

1. get myself a proper studio space, there are way to many distractions working from home!
2. apply for funding, so as to make n1. possible!
3. be more pro active in finding places to show my work, particularly in Edinburgh.
4. begin work on the larger paintings that have been put on the back burner.
5. write to more art therapy organisations and get as much experience as possible
6. apply for my masters...and get in!