Welcome to my site.
I am an Edinburgh based contemporary artist and illustrator, commissioned by businesses and individuals for bespoke watercolours and illustrated maps.
In my studio I am in the process of building a collection of abstract works on paper which have grown out of my natural history illustrations and my preoccupation colour, weather, natural world objects and forms.
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2025 WASPS Open Studios, Riverside House, Edinburgh
2017-2025 Part time studio practice while also raising family, working on commissions and selling reproductions of my existing portfolio. Wholesaling own brand merchandise to stores throughout UK, in Europe and Australia.
2023 RSW 142nd exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
2023 Anthony Woodd Gallery. Book illustrations exhibition for author Molly Arbuthnott
2022 Publication of ‘The Clever Red Setter’ by young readers author Leonard Harper-Gow, including cover and chapter heading illustration.
2022 Publication of fully illustrated picture book ‘David the Pizzly Bear’ by children’s author Molly Arbuthnott.
2022 ‘Connections’, group show Edinburgh Palette
2019 Torrance Gallery, Christmas exhibition
2017 Summerhall Open Studios, Edinburgh
2015 McNaughton’s bookshop Edinburgh, solo exhibition of illustrations
2015 Golden Hare, Grassmarket Edinburgh
2016 Glass & Thompson, Edinburgh
Awards & Press
2023 The Scotsman ‘Good Traditions’ review by Duncan Macmillan, January 2022
2022 Awarded the annual Landscape Prize from Leith School of Art.
2022 Red ribbon in the ‘Wishing Shelf Book Awards’ for David the Pizzly Bear
2020 Town & Country Magazine ‘Drawing Inspiration: The Art of Contemporary Cartography’
Education
Manchester Art School. Completed Art Foundation, Fashion and Textiles.
Further education: Courses at Heatherley’s School of Art, Chelsea College of Art, British Institute Florence, Leith School of Art.
2001 University of Edinburgh, History of Art, MA Hons, 2:1
Author Leonard Harper-Gow (Cover and chapter heading illustrations, ‘The Clever Red Setter’, 2023)
Author Molly Arthuthnott (complete children’s picture book illustration, 2022)
Author Stephen O’Rourke QC (endpapers for novel, The Crown Agent. Sandstone Press, 2019)
Lady Juliet Townsend DCVO (Large scale commemorative architectural county map, 2019)
Hakluyt & Co. (event illustration, 2019)
Nic Houldsworth Garden Design (visualisations for garden design, 2018)
Cargilfield School, Edinburgh (map for prospectus jacket & web, 2017)
Catchpenny Safari Lodges, Fife (Web map and natural history illustration, 2017)
Gordon Nicholson Kiltmaker, Edinburgh (John Muir Way illustrated map, 2015)
Garden House School, Belgravia (Illustrated school calendar, 2015)
Rossie House Investments, Edinburgh (website illustration, 2015)
Potterton Books, Belgravia (Bookmark project) 2014
Story Advertising agency, Edinburgh (visualisations, 2014)