Picture Shack, for many years a successful Scottish landscape paintings gallery in the tiny, remote villages of Achiltibuie and Lochinver in the Northwest of Scotland, has now evolved into its full online incarnation to allow me more flexibility and to pursue new artistic challenges at home and abroad.
While you can still find my work in the Lochinver gallery, now “Lochinver Landscapes”, my paintings can now be viewed and purchased from the comfort of your own home, without having to brave the sometimes unpredictable Highland weather! If you already know the area, I hope my work will bring back vivid memories of this spectacular region. If not, then perhaps it will inspire you to visit; you will be assured a very warm welcome.
In any case I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures as much as I enjoyed painting them.
About the Artist
Born in Sussex in a small village at the foot of the South Downs, my mother told me I began drawing as soon as I could hold a pencil. Always interested in the natural world, wandering the hills and woods even as a child, I began while still young to try and depict the beauty I saw around me, much to the boredom of my friends who couldn’t see the fun in sitting in some field all day trying to draw green hills.
When I was 15 my family moved to Ilkley in Yorkshire, on the edge of the Dales, where I soon found a thriving amateur and professional arts scene, and I began to take my drawing more seriously. On leaving school I attended Bradford Art College to take a Foundation Course in Art & Design, followed by a degree at Leeds Polytechnic, where I attained a B.A. (Hons.) in Graphic Design, specialising in Illustration.
