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A watercolour, it's surprising what a good view there is from the dunes on Reiss beach!

I painted this some time ago, and gifted it to my mum and dad. It is an oil painting of my daughter at Dunnett beach. She is watching...

I had begun work on a painting of Farr beach a while ago and it's a big one. I was trying to loosen up my style in that painting. In...

A view of Sinclair and Girnigoe castles from Ackergill, drawn while my daughter splashed about in the harbour! Pen and ink.

Stanley Cursiter (1887-976) was an artist who lived in Orkney before he moved south to study art and design. He used his talents in the...

Watercolour, maybe a bit looser than I would have liked. It's always exciting to visit here!

I really enjoyed my progression under David and Kitty Watt's life drawing classes, over the course of a few years. Although these...

One of my first paintings, that persuaded me I could carry on painting as a hobby. It's now hanging on my living room wall.

The painting was started in the summer of 2011 but I struggled with the tone of the painting for a while, finishing it in November. ...

South bank of the Wick river looking towards the footbridge. June 2009 had a few really good sunny days and this is one of them. ...

Watercolour, of Dempster Street scene.

A drawing I had been working on and off for a couple of weeks. Decided to pop it in a frame I had lying around. Was playing with the...

A small acrylic, painted on board. The Noss head lighthouse near Wick. We drove out one afternoon and watched a flock of birds fly...

I always felt that the painting, required more work. It is a fine line between not doing enough and overdoing it.

Over the Christmas holidays the weather wasn\'t great. One day we were cooped up, and we started to get \'cabin fever\'. We took the...

Painted on box canvas, a street scene of Wick. The jpeg has been scaled wrong, so a corrected image will be posted shortly.

The Prince\'s Drawing School were staying at Northlands Creative Glass, and sent out an invitation for local artists to join them for a...

Some paintings take a while. This is one that I started last year. I liked the way the the shore became almost abstract blocks and...

I painted this watercolour in the summer. Unfortunately I was in a bit of a rush to get it framed and tagged for the Caithness...

In June 2012 there was a spell of warm dry weather. Unusually for Caithness there was no heavy rain showers. We went a drive to John...