Summer in the Highlands, huge skies and vast open spaces. Since moving here a few months ago I have been doing regular sketching out of doors, and loving it. I am learning the names and sounds of native birds, and trying to get better at identifying trees.
Just behind where we live there is a wonderful old wood, and I walk there most mornings. Birch, rowan, willow, and more mosses, wild mushrooms and berries than I recognise or can count. I get lost in the scenery, and dangerously close to agreeing with my sister – no painting can ever be as beautiful as nature, so why try?
Below are some of my first sketches, and some of my photographs, because I try anyway. Early morning pleasures, sustaining.
Delighted to have recently joined the Inverness Art Society, and participated in their annual exhibition alongside so many experienced Highlands Artists. Three of my paintings and four limited edition prints were exhibited.
Summer in the Highlands, huge skies and vast open spaces. Since moving here a few months ago I have been doing regular sketching out of doors, and loving it. I am learning
Portraits were my very first artistic addiction. I used to draw the faces of some of my classmates at school, in pencil. It was one of the few things I enjoyed doing