ABOUT

2026 has been an exceptionally busy and rewarding year, for which I feel enormously fortunate. Much of the past few months has been devoted to progressing and completing commissions in Sweden and Chile, both of which have offered exciting opportunities and fresh inspiration. Later this year, I will be embarking on an extensive visit to the United States, a journey I am very much looking forward to.

I remain deeply grateful to the many benefactors, gallery owners, curators, interior designers and friends whose encouragement, generosity and continued support have made so many of these projects possible. Their confidence in my work has opened the door to new and exciting commissions, and I am immensely appreciative of the opportunities that have come my way.

Looking back, 2025 was an extraordinarily productive and memorable year. It began with a particularly special exhibition at the Romanian Cultural Institute, where I presented a series of landscapes painted during the summer of 2024.

Shortly afterwards, I returned to the Hebrides to create a new collection of landscapes and portraits for a private collection. This was an especially rewarding commission, bringing together my enduring love of portraiture with the extraordinary light, atmosphere and untamed beauty of the Scottish islands.

One of the most significant and memorable occasions of 2025 was undoubtedly the presentation of my painting depicting The Changing of the Colours by His Majesty King Charles III, commissioned by the Royal Navy Trophy Centre. It was an immense privilege to have the painting unveiled on the bridge of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, in the presence of Captain Claire Thompson OBE RN, the first woman to command a Royal Navy aircraft carrier. It was a remarkable occasion and an honour that will remain with me for many years to come.

As I look ahead to the remainder of 2026 and beyond, I do so with a great sense of gratitude and anticipation. It is a privilege to continue working on such varied and inspiring projects, to revisit places that have become important to my work, and to discover new subjects, landscapes and people along the way.

CAREER BACKGROUND

2023–2024 marked a particularly significant and memorable chapter in my career. I had the extraordinary honour of being commissioned by His Majesty King Charles III to create a series of paintings depicting the Coronation Procession on 6 May 2023. These works have since become part of the Royal Collection and were viewed by His Majesty in September 2024. It was an immense privilege to record such an historic occasion, and one that will always hold a very special place in my career.

During this period, I was also delighted to receive a further commission from Hauser & Wirth to create a new series of portraits of people living in Braemar, Aberdeenshire. Having previously worked in the area, it was a pleasure to return and continue exploring the character and individuality of this remarkable Highland community. The gallery also commissioned me to paint a series of portraits of local Scottish fishermen for their Fish Shop restaurant, a project that offered another wonderful opportunity to celebrate the people and traditions of the region.

2020–2022 proved to be a surprisingly productive and creatively rewarding period, despite the considerable challenges of the global pandemic. I continued to paint and draw, both in the United Kingdom and overseas, including a particularly memorable period spent in Norway. These years also brought an unexpected new interest in garden design, inspired in no small part by the extraordinary work of the Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf. His imaginative and naturalistic approach to planting has been a continuing source of inspiration.

2019 was a particularly poignant year, during which I embarked on a project to draw portraits of D-Day veterans to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings. In June, I travelled to Normandy, where I had the great privilege of meeting and drawing veterans from several countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. Listening to their extraordinary stories and capturing their likenesses was a deeply moving experience. I was enormously grateful to the Royal British Legion for hosting an exhibition of these portraits, and especially honoured that the works were viewed by Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, as they were then titled.

2018 marked the beginning of a particularly rewarding association with Hauser & Wirth, when I was commissioned to create a series of portraits of local residents in Braemar, Aberdeenshire. This project offered a wonderful opportunity to explore the personalities, stories and distinctive character of a Highland community through portraiture. The resulting works, which can be viewed in the Characters of Braemar section of my website, are displayed at the Fife Arms Hotel in Braemar. It remains a project of which I am particularly fond, not least because of the people I had the pleasure of meeting and painting along the way.