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Cove Bay, Aberdeen 1993

In 1993 I became a full time painting lecturer at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. I stayed with my Mum for most of this year while I was looking for a place of my own. She lived in Cove Bay, an outlying cliff coastal suburb of Aberdeen. So, with no studio, I simply worked small on the kitchen table and explored the area. A new lyricism and use of colour emerged as I moved away from the overtly domestic and started to make work with more pathos and myth.

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Watercolour

'clown', watercolour 1993, 17cm x 25cm
'country conspiracy', watercolour, 1993, 50cm x 33cm
'cove', watercolour, 1993, 30cm x 22cm
'cove cows', watercolour, 1993, 22cm x 16cm
'cove dreams', watercolour, 1993, 32cm x 19cm

'cove gap', watercolour, 1993, 40cm x 24cm
'cove in yellow', watercolour, 1993, 40cm x 26cm
'dipper at bridge', watercolour 1993, 22cm x 15cm
'families', watercolour, 1993, 22cm x 16cm
'farmer and flower', watercolour, 1993, 40cm x 32cm

'4 friends in the country' watercolour, 1993, 32cm x 22cm
'alone in cove', watercolour, 1993, 25cm x 17cm
'archway conspiracy', watercolour, 1993, 32cm x 18cm
'big house small house', watercolour, 1993, 24cm x 17cm
'bird head', watercolour, 1993, 16cm x 24cm

'farmer at glenburn', watercolour, 1993, 40cm x 32cm
'floating', watercolour, 1993, 15cm x 23cm
'flying girl', watercolour, 1993, 23cm x 16cm
'footdee folk', watercolour, 1993, 40cm x 32cm
'fred at bridge', watercolour, 1993, 22cm x 15cm

'underground, overground', watercolour,1993, 26cm x 37cm
'they're talkin aboot us!', watercolour, 1993, 50cm x 34cm
'hill walkers', watercolour, 1993, 36cm x 27cm
'man in bed', watercolour, 1996, 15cm x 25cm
'three wise...', mixed media, 1993, 42cm x 21cm

'train in fyfe', watercolour/gouache, 1993, 27cm x 40cm
'railway people', watercolour 1993, 38cm x 27cm
'rosie's home', watercolour, 1993, 28cm x 37cm
'scar flady', watercolour, 1993, 39cm x 29cm
'station stairs', watercolour, 1993, 23cm x 16cm

'yellow man in pink country', watercolour, 1993, 41cm x 30cm		        
Gouache

'blue cove window', gouach, 1993, 40cm x 40cm
'flower girl', gouache, 1993, 40cm x 32cm
'coastal dream', gouache, 1993, 40cm x 30cm
'coastal dreams with lighthouse', oil on paper, 1993, 40cm x 68cm
'the intruder', gouache, 1993, 32cm x 48cm
Drawing

'furtive cuddle', mixed media, 1993, 40cm x 32cm
'cove couple', drawing, 1993, 18cm x 30cm
'dyke chat', drawing, 1993, 27cm x 34cm
'man in snow', mixed media, 1993, 40cm x 30cm