A lovely project to start 2025 – working with Fife Historic Buildings Trust in the wonderful location of St Monans, as they support the local community in securing funding for community ownership of this beautiful 14th Century Church. St Monans Auld Kirk Enterprise have been exploring securing a new future for the building, for the…
Offering a view into medieval Glasgow, John Gilbert Architects have faithfully reestablished the building’s presence as part of extensive upgrades to future proof the building and collection. A new lime harling render which brings the building inline with how it originally looked as built in 1471 is the main visual change to the streetscape. Both internally…
Opened in March 2025 on World Book Day, Harper Collins new distribution centre and offices provide an incredible 550,00sqft facility built to process up to 3 million books a week at Robroyston, Glasgow. The system relies on state of the art automation with the building employing high efficiency insulation, lighting and cooling systems to integrate…
A selection of images inspired by Glasgow landscapes. These images from between 2005 and 2015 helped me identify a way of working and responding to the urban landscape, enjoying having some fun with composition, colour, collage and illustration techniques. These images are mainly created as limited edition prints or commissions. The images use similar techniques…
The Gallery of Modern Art is a much loved building in the centre of Glasgow, sitting within the well proportioned Royal Exchange Square. The building dates back to Glasgow’s empirical rise and merchant wealth fuelled by tobacco, sugar and cotton importations and business links to its slave trade past. The Neo-classical Corinthian columns, cupola and…
I wanted to say here a little bit about the value of drawing in my practice, something I constantly return to and find invaluable for many reasons. It is right up there for maintaining a sense of creativity – we all know every day life can sometimes feel like a routine, or a never ending…
Natural forms, colour, and composition have always been areas of interest, and working with photographs as a starting point, digital techniques balance here with fluid hand drawn line. I was reminded of this ‘Blue Orchid’ piece i made many years ago from a photograph taken in Glasgow’s Botanic gardens, and recently reworked it to bring…
Really enjoyed working on this set of images for Glasgow Life as their refurbishment of this wonderful asset for the community neared completion. Glasgow Life with conservation architects ZM Architecture have given the building a new lease of life, upgrading the internal environment with improved community facilities, ventilation and energy efficiency measures, whilst externally the…
Referencing both the shape of the building and the owner’s previous home in Australia, the Boomerang House designed by John Murray Architect occupies a sloping triangular site in Dumfries and Galloway, with views across Loch Ken. Guest accommodation and a garage are on the lower level with the upper floor offering relaxed and generous kitchen…
It was good to be working with Hypostyle Architects, on this project in the East End of Glasgow. I hadn’t been in this area for a while and it’s great to see the change taking shape around the Barras Market, Gallowgate and Calton areas, to the East of Glasgow’s City Centre. Large swathes of vacant…
A stunning home designed by architect Sir Robert Lorimer. He was influenced by both traditional romanticist architecture, Scottish Baronial style buildings and also the more organic, relaxed and original style of The Arts and Crafts movement. A selection of images here from a commission to document the house and surrounding landscape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPBMlO1J8Qw
Stockingfield Junction in Glasgow’s Maryhill area is both striking and transformative in its design connecting active travel paths over the Forth and Clyde Canal, between the 3 areas on different sides of the canal – Maryhill, Gilsochill and Ruchill. Scottish Canals and Sustrans delivered the project with Balfour Beatty as contractor and engineering designer and…
