<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>I’ve always had an interest in colour. Coming from Scotland, where the weather often turns everything grey, I used to love how the landscape would transform when the sun came out. I had a view of the Ochil hills from my<wm> childhood home and though it wasn’t much of a view of the actual landscape, I just loved its rolling green hills and fields that used to stretch as far as the eye could see.

Even when my childhood home fell in line with the rest of the town after the Big Re-Deportment, I found an outlet to express my love for nature in colour when painting. Although my main stream of work was going from a small studio in Stirling, I experimented in all kinds of ways. Painting</wm> in colour was like painting on moving water - it captured everything I had to say but sometimes got away