Edwin Morgan
The beauty of this drawing is rooted in the fact that there was nothing blocking a connection between the movement of my hand and the energy behind his works of creation and my own

Sold to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Queenie

Her Majesty
Screenprint. A1 size. This print is based on a drawing made in the Royal Scottish Museum. When I draw stuffed birds and animals I am trying to connect with the spirit which once animated them, and hope I am doing so respectfully.
For sale.

Flight

Turn of the Screw
Screenprint. Inspired by the enigmatic book by Henry James. I share with all humanity a fascination with the interface between life and death, and James encapsulates this so intriguingly in this book.

A few copies still for sale

By the sea...

Time Running Out
Screenprint. When I completed the drawing from which this print is taken I thought of the poem by the great Welsh poet, R S Thomas, "Time running out ......" . Now in my sixties I do feel acutely the sense that time is running out and that the “portrait” will never be completed....

R S Thomas
Ink on paper. I regret that I never met the magnificent Welsh poet, R S Thomas. This head is from my imagination. I gav it the title R S Thomas, and adapted it as a screenprint in which I appended RST's very lovely poem The Bright Field.

Drawing - for sale, Screenprint - for sa...

Word as Bond, detail
Oil on board. I feel very close to this painting, not sure why. Perhaps it has something to do with my longing for intimacy while simultaneously struggling to protect my space. The woman is allowing herself to be held and yet is looking into the distance. Sold from The Smi...

The nights are drawing in

Brown Hare

Bird in Cage

Colm Toibin 2007
Pencil on paper. I am passionate about Colm’s writing. For me he cannot write a wrong word! He has sat for me since 2004, every time he comes over to Scotland to speak at the Edinburgh Book Festival. I would love to find a venue for my drawings of him. We agreed that this drawi...

A.L.Kennedy 2009
Pencil on paper, for sale

A Dove of Iona Abbey

Virginia Woolf

This drawing is an interpretation of a photograph of Virginia Woolf, and was included in an exhibition , Heroines, in New Hall College, Cambridge, held in 2011. Curated by Julie Lawson, Chief Curator, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Sold

Wallpaper.
Sold

Chrysallis
Self Portrait.
For sale.

The pain of Childbirth
Drawing from the Royal College of Surgeons.
Not for sale.

Owlish

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Janet as Fresco

Absense