I sketch outdoors in all weathers – I find that sketching helps me immerse myself in a place and capture something to explore and develop further. In the studio I re-work sketches using a variety of media, including acrylics, Japanese ink and oils. The landscape provides my main subject, particularly hills and trees. Buildings and street scenes are other subjects I develop from sketching trips. As well as painting, I make various types of prints on the printing press in my studio – photopolymer gravures, etchings, linocuts and monotypes. I’m originally from Fife, worked in Edinburgh for several years and now live in Lochcarron, Wester Ross. I graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in the 1970s and I have also studied at Leith School of Art. I’ve had work selected for various open exhibitions including RSA, RSW, SSA and VAS. I exhibit regularly in various small group shows and in the annual members’ show of the Art Society Inverness (won the President’s Prize in 2018).