Summary 2021 Abandoned Cottages, Scotland In 2021 I was supported through a Creative Scotland grant for individual artists to do a month long residency at Merz Gallery at Sanquhar in Southwest Scotland. For a week, during the residency I worked at a terrace of abandoned farm cottages experimenting with painting, collage and time lapse video. The building itself became material for work and I created a series of temporary paintings on the windows. Description In April 2021, right after lockdown, it was incredible to leave Edinburgh for the first time in over a year and go on residency in rural…

Summary 2021 Ashes to Ashes: glass house painting In 2021 I was supported through a Creative Scotland grant for individual artists to do a month long residency at Merz Gallery at Sanquhar in Southwest Scotland. I spent a week of my time at Merz creating these paintings on a glass house outside of The Bothy, a reclaimed building where I lived for the month. Description Before arriving at MERZ Director Dave Rushton and I had discussed creating work on the windows of the Bothy Green House, a glassed shed built by artists Rhona Jack and Callum Wallis in May 2020 as part…

Summary I see you from my bubble, 2020, window painting, Edinburgh tenement. In the spring of 2020 at the start of lockdown the studio building in Dalry where I worked was closed in line with government regulations. In order to keep working I set up a small work place in my flat in Edinburgh. It was less than a quarter of the size of my normal studio. With very limited space to work in, I became fascinated by the idea of using the windows as a place to make paintings. The large scale and potential to experiment was exciting. In…