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At Secondary School, my interest in painting survived, despite the best efforts of the Head of the Art Department.
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After leaving college I worked in ceramics, first as an instructor and later as a craft potter producing gas fired stoneware pottery.
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I worked as a musician in the eighties, playing electric fiddle and metal vest (Zydeco frottoir) in, what was at the time, Scotland’s only heavy metal cajun band - Deaf Heights, and appeared with Bo Diddley, Mud, The Pogues, King Kurt, The Proclaimers, KD Laing, Charlie Musselwhite and Runrig.
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Venues included Barrowland, Olympia, Dingwalls, The Hundred Club, King Tuts, Goldsmiths College, Fat Sams, Princes Street Gardens, Hopeton House, Cafe Grafitti and the legendary Mucky Duck in Shotts, Lanarkshire. Featured on BBC’s “The Tube”
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Thanks to Marc Marnie - Photographer
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In a tent - last century
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Painting and playing music went well together, but like many other artists in their early stages I have often had jobs which didn’t....
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For my sins, at various other times I have worked on a farm, in a steelworks, building sites, a warehouse, hotels, a factory, in several filling stations and in a kilt hire shop.
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I lived for some time in a hill farm cottage overlooking the Gala Water and Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders. Here, I became increasingly interested in seeing the sky as the major element in landscape painting. This remains my main motivation for painting.
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While I’ve always painted, I started painting as a fulltime occupation in 1988, first in the Scottish Borders, then in the South East of England, before moving back to Scotland in 1997.
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I now live in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee in Scotland. Besides oil rigs I’ve seen otters from the window, dolphins, tall ships, a hovercraft and a Lancaster bomber.
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Some other interests are photography, ships, animals, computer graphics, metalworking, woodworking, engines, history, natural history, poetry, sculpture and doing websites.
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