Oct 28, 2024 | Biggar Little Festival, Lanark Heritage, Uncategorized
Music, History and Painting at Biggar Little Festival 2024 Art and music on display at Biggar Corn Exchange What an honour to be part of this musical creation! Rob Hall and Chick Lyall gave a wonderfully uplifting performance for piano and clarinet yesterday at Biggar...
Oct 20, 2024 | Architecture, Biggar Little Festival, Lanark Heritage
Art and history inspiring new music Nine of the twelve paintings of Lanark’s Closes now on exhibition at Biggar Corn Exchange Once our art is ‘out there’, we seldom have any idea of who sees it and where it goes other than the interactions on our...
Nov 11, 2023 | Lanark Heritage
Energy, Concentration and Commitment Working back into a painting is a great way to learn about your process. Putting your work up on your wall and living with it for a while allows you to identify what you enjoy about it as well as what you think is missing....
Dec 31, 2022 | Lanark Heritage, Pen and ink drawing
Bulls Close, Lanark A short, sketchy post to wish you all a happy and creative New Year 2023 from here in Lanark! Back of Miss D’s, South Vennel, Lanark As we say goodbye to 2020, I’d like to close with a few more sketches of Lanark and as always a big...
Dec 17, 2022 | Art, Painting,, Lanark Heritage, Scotland
#Inktober is an Instagram challenge to draw daily in ink throughout the month of October. Last year, I took part and drew a series of some 25 vignettes focussed on Lanark. Some of these were framed and went off to be sold at the Tolbooth Christmas pop-up shop. I...
Aug 16, 2022 | Architecture, Lanark Heritage, New LAnark
August is the month when I like to complete unfinished work or perk up drawings or paintings that I think are just missing something. I’ve had four framed drawings of Lanark townscape packed away but during a recent sort I brought them back into my studio....
