This September I finally got to Newlyn School of Art for Anita Reynolds’ excellent short Abstract Landscape course. It was refreshing to be at a coastline with such different geology, to leave old mark making habits at home and spend a bit of time in a learner mindset being overwhelmed by a new landscape before the big shapes revealed themselves.

I intend to continue with some of the approaches to making images and the processes Anita encouraged us to try, and to build a new body of work over the next few months in which I might use a few core images to explore different processes and colour palettes. A brilliant experience, well worth the journey!

It has been a while since I painted with the west coast in mind, so I was pleased to be able to show the two big sky paintings of Arisaig and Achnahaird so perfectly framed by Camserney framing, at City Contemporary Art gallery in Perth, alongside the large cradled panels ‘ Green Isle of the Great Deep’ and ‘Seal Skerries’.