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Help us Design Adventures for the new Children’s Theatre Suite at Ninewells!

I am so excited to be able to announce that I will be creating a whole series of giant bespoke illustrations for the new Children’s Theatre Suite at Ninewells! Local children and their families can help choose the artwork theme for the reception/waiting area of the suite. I can’t wait to see what they pick……

Dundee Windows Project – Sending Smiles From Sunny Dundee!

“Dundee Windows is part of the City Centre Recovery activity from Dundee City Council, re-animating the city centre and welcoming people back to our streets.” I am delighted to one of six artists chosen to “create exciting artworks in vacant windows in the city centre.” The other artists are: Tracey Stewart, Sarah Chacko, Agency of…

Wanna Collaborate with Me? Free! Fun! Digital Download!

Would you like to collaborate with me? Let’s have some FREE fun! I’ve drawn a wee house and left lots of space for your imagination! Will you colour it in? Leave it black and white? What will you add? More houses? Trees and Bushes? Tree houses? Lochs or mountains? Flowers and animals? People or creatures…

Wooden Diorama Mural for Roxburghe House, Dundee

We unveiled the giant wooden diorama mural that I created for Roxburghe House on Friday. It was inspired by patients, staff and the beautiful surroundings, including Balgay Park, Dundee – what a brilliant day! Creating the mural for Roxburghe House has been such a pleasure and a huge honour. The fantastic patients and staff have…

Dundee Cake Ale

When cake becomes beer! Have you seen Law Brewing Co’s latest creation? Dundee Cake Ale. It’s been a delight to work with Danny on this one. The label ties in with my Sunny Dundee range featuring some of Dundee’s iconic buildings. You can also spot the famous Dundee dragons and lilies, an intricate River Tay…

Sunny Dundee

It’s all in the Dundeetail! Did you know? Dundee is the only south-facing city in Scotland that regularly clocks up more hours of sunshine than any other. ☀️ 2018 saw ‘Sunny Dundee’ becoming a popular term in Dundee with #sunnydundee appearing everywhere – often coupled with bright yellow sunglasses and big smiles. The Sunny Dundee…

Family Life Story Mural

In Feb/March 2017 I created this mural for an incredibly lovely family. It tells the story of their lives with lots of hidden details in amongst a garden filled with their favourite flowers and creatures. What an absolute pleasure!

Exhibition: River Deep Mountain High

RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH – Archives to Artworks An exhibition to mark the Year of Coast and Water curated by Archive Services at the University of Dundee. Artists and creative writers were invited to respond to the University’s rich collections on the themes of rivers, seas, coasts and mountains. Original photographs, journals, plans and specimens…

Behind The Scenes of Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail – Sneak Peeks, Painting, Hard Work & Fun Stuff!

It’s August 2019 and Oor Wullie is back in my life again in a big way. He’s not just taken over Dundee again, he’s conquered the whole of Scotland! Yup, Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail has gone national – with 200 large hand painted sculptures to find, 100s of wee ones and for not just…

Designing A Gift Range For Abertay University

‪Delighted to work with Abertay University to produce a gift range for them based on my ‘Secret Garden’ illustration. I graduated from Abertay and couldn’t be prouder to design these pieces for them. This is the wrapping paper. The illustration was an inktober project and the inspiration behind my Maggie’s Penguin Parade sculpture Maggie &…

Fun A Day Dundee Exhibition 2019

All the colours of the rainbow for this year’s Fun A Day Dundee exhibition at Wasps Meadow Mill Studios. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖 Here’s my piece “When You Make Time For Nonsense It Will Bring Lots Of Smiles” This year I decided to focus on fun, nonsense and exploring colour. I created a colourful world over the month…

“Bodies, Botanicals & Bindings: Reimagining Rare Books” Exhibition

Would you like a peek at the piece I created especially for the “Bodies, Botanicals and Bindings: Reimagining Rare Books” exhibition with Dundee University Archive Collections? I chose to collaborate with George Knorr, who originally created beautiful hand coloured copperplate engravings in ‘Deliciae Naturae Select’, 1754. I hope he would approve! The printed versions of…