Degree: Drawing PGDip
University: The Royal Drawing School
Graduation Year: 2017
I studied Fine Art Painting at Grays School of Art and the Drawing School, making work every day in museums or outside in parks and gardens. Subtropical botanical gardens have provided sources for me to work from where I use drawing as a form of research to investigate the physical rhythms and structures in nature.
In the studio I take condensed versions of landscape and further explore them in the studio in a cyclical group of large drawings and paintings which aim to give the viewer an immersive, sensual experience. The paintings are derived from observational drawings and are a re-ordering of my experiences using a more abstract language of mark making.
(2020) Loch Awe, Taychreggan Hotel, Argyll
(2024) Manchester Art Fair, Darl-E & the Bear, Manchester
(2024) RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
(2023) Nowhere In Particular, Elgin Library, Moray
(2023) Spring Exhibition, Darl-E & the Bear, Woodstock
(2023) Winter Show, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
(2022) Ink & Wire, showing with Rosie Brown, Darl-E & the Bear, Woodstock
(2022) Winter Exhibition, Darl-E & the Bear, Woodstock
(2021) Moving Forwards, Digital Gallery, Online
(2021) Artistic Impressions, World of Interiors Magazine, London
(2020) Symbiosis: Art and Nature, Darl-e and the Bear, Woodstock
(2020) Winter Group Show, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
(2019) A High Hang, Ecclestone Project Space, London
(2019) Exceptional, Graduate Show, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
(2019) Fundraising Show, Bee Urban, London
(2018) Long Time No See, Bow Arts Trust, London
(2017) End of year show, Christie's, London
(2017) End of year show, Royal Drawing School, London
(2016) Winter Group Show, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
(2016) Lines to Paint, Arts Centre, Aberdeen
(2016) New Generation Show, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
(2016) Qualia, Gallery 17, Aberdeen
(2016) Degree Show, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
(2016) Jen Beattie drawing memorial prize