GOING WEST

We have lived in Dumfries and Galloway for ten years, visiting Ireland and the islands of the Hebrides regularly. A significant preoccupation for us both as artists has always been what is known as Spirit of Place. The place where we live and the places traveled through are vitally important to the pictures we make. Observation, memory, ideas and thoughts combine and we use a range of media and methods including drawing, painting, printmaking and photography. The series which we are working on and our own individual styles determine our preferences.

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We met as students at Liverpool College of Art and have worked as artists and teachers in a variety of places and situations. We have exhibited individually and together and have work in collections throughout the British Isles, Europe and USA.

We are regular participants in Dumfries & Galloway's annual 'Spring Fling' Open Studios at the end of May.

Exhibitions in 2008 include:

'New Paintings'              New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surre

'Going West'                  House for an Art Lover, Glasgow

'Spring Fling Taster'     The Line Gallery, Linlithgow

'Lakes paintings'           Rambla Bistro Gallery, Ellerthwaite Square, Windermere        

'Summer Show'             Strathearn Gallery, Crieff

'New paintings'              Purple Gallery, Bournville, Birmingham

'Light from the North'    Ottersburn Gallery, Dumfries

'Winter Show'                 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey