My portfolios represent mural painting, human heid studies, compositional exploration and observational drawing. They are organised and named broadly under these categories and also include historical examples of my work. The following is a summary of what you can expect to see in each portfolio.

Portfolio 01: Artists for Justice and Peace.
Artists Mike Greenlaw and Paul Grimes in collaboration with Rector Neville Chamberlain, began creating murals on themes of contemporary justice and peace on the exterior walls of St. John’s Church, Edinburgh, in the summer of 1982. As many as six a year are painted on the site, and remain for two to six weeks before being painted over again in preparation for the next one. Each mural measures three metres by four metres and are created using ordinary household emulsion paints. Each mural can take anything from two to six days to complete from the beginning of the idea process to the final execution. I took over as lead artist following Mike Greenlaw’s retirement from the murals in 2017. A more comprehensive visual history of the murals, social media comments and an article by the then Rector of St John’s, Markus Dünzkofer from 2016 can be found via the following links:

https://stjohns-edinburgh.org.uk/murals/

https://www.facebook.com/people/Murals-at-St-Johns-Scottish-Episcopal-Church-Edinburgh-EH2-4BJ/100068109249885/#

https://edinburgh.anglican.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/TheEdgeAutumn2016-smaller.pdf

Portfolio 02: Human Heids
This portfolio reflects my interest in the form of the human heid through colour, designed as human presences not fully articulated nor fully formed, but nonetheless specific, appearing caught in a moment or engaged in an occupation. These works are ongoing and tend to be worked up in themed series, the first began in 1987. Most recently the series 'Busted' and 'Seven Drunken Heids' are oil pastel on paper each measuring 50 x 40cm. The series 'Occupation', a series of 19 and 'Internee' a series of 14, are oil on board and each measure 30 x 21cm. Oil on board works created between 2001 and 2004, 'Rose', 'Left half of Mo', and 'Ms Mangle' are variously sized but no bigger than 60 x 46cm. The 'Bigg Market Heids' from 1994 are from a series of six and are oil on canvas measuring 30 x 21cm. Older series of works based on the human heid can be found in the historical portfolios.

This site is edited and updated regularly. I am currently updating the biography and have yet to complete the background text explaining the work in each of the portfolios, but I am working on it. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy what you see and read so far, and I look forward to completing the site in the near future.