Portfolio.

Landscape, for me, is never fixed. It is a site of memory, embodiment, and belonging, a field that shifts between observation and recollection, presence and distance. This portfolio presents a body of ink works concerned with that instability, and with the quiet tension that lives inside it.

Working in monochrome, I use fine line drawing and layered washes to construct atmospheric environments rooted in specific places: forests, coastlines, and remote paths in Scotland. Each work begins with sustained looking: walking, photographing, dwelling. Forms emerge gradually through tonal variation, accumulation, and erosion, with trees, thresholds, and shifting horizons suggesting spaces of transition and return.

Ink is both material and record. It holds traces of duration, pressure, and movement, and in this sense the medium is inseparable from the enquiry. The process is one of building and wearing away, of pause as much as mark-making.

My relationship to ink is less about tradition than necessity. The practice emerges from a particular way of being in and processing the world, one where sustained physical attention, slow accumulation, and the negotiation with an unpredictable medium become ways of reaching feeling that resist more direct articulation. Mark-making is not illustration but method: a means of thinking through the body, at the pace the body allows.

The works here reflect an ongoing enquiry into place attachment, collective memory, and cianalas, a Scottish Gaelic term carrying grief, longing, and a love for one's home landscape that has no direct English equivalent. It is a word that describes something this work is trying to do: hold a place in feeling, across time and distance.