Blown Away

Many of my paintings in the September exhibition at Beauly Gallery are mixed media with a theme of wild weather.

I build up a surface using a mix of materials, sand, scraps of maps, bits of scrim, corrugated cardboard, all bound together with PVA and/or gesso. Then paint is applied, usually acrylic to start with and sometimes continuing with oil.

This painting, Windswept Shore, creates a feeling of being caught in a huge gust of wind, the kind where you have to shut your eyes to keep out airborne objects.

Wild Weather at Beauly Gallery

How the weather preoccupies us in Scotland, and there's no better place to view the ever changing skies than round the coast.

A few stormy days in Durness inspired a whole series of paintings where the clouds are the main focus. They are such fun to paint and inevitably end up either darker or more colourful than the real thing.

This oil painting, Rain Sweeps Through, is on exhibition at Beauly Gallery during September.