

Travels in Australia and New Zealand
In September last year, we travelled to Australia to visit family, and I took the opportunity to make the trip over to New Zealand for fifteen days of exploring. As usual, I packed my camera and sketchbooks, always looking around me and hoping for those unforgettable views that might make beautiful paintings. The weather for the trip was not great. My first foray was cut short on the second day by deep snow, gales and an approaching storm. My second mission was abandoned a


UK Climbing has published a feature about my work.
The popular climbing and hillwalking website UKC ( ukclimbing.com ) has published a Q&A feature all about my approach to painting. Have...


New Zealand Alpine and Scottish Mountaineering Club Journals
I have a nice article in the New Zealand Alpine Club Journal, and my painting of Creag Meagaidh features as the frontispiece in the...


Winter in the Scottish Highlands
After completing my Ben Mor Coigach painting in January, I headed for the mountains to be inspired for my next paintings. Before I go...


Aoraki Mount Cook New Zealand
Here's the beginning of a new painting of New Zealand's highest mountain. The view is looking to the South Ridge (first climbed by Ed...


Inspiration in the Scottish mountains
I've spent the last four months climbing and walking in the Highlands, always looking around me and absorbing everything that the hills...


The Cuillin Mountains - Isle of Skye
Two new paintings of The Cuillin mountains on the Isle of Skye. The first was inspired by the view to Bruach na Frithe from near Sgurr...


New Zealand trip
I was back in New Zealand's Southern Alps in October, climbing sketching and photographing some beautiful mountains. My expedition...


Winter on Ben Nevis
January was a write-off with warm temperatures, heavy rain and strong winds. February finally came good and March has been excellent so...


Forest Path - a large new painting
I began sketching and planning for this piece last Autumn. Painting then started in March, and it's taken me until now to complete it...



















