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1 1977 to 2001 At school I was always a techie and didn’t do much art. When I was sixteen, my Father gave me a Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Jessie M. King, and that started my drawing as a hobby. Over the next few years, I created an art portfolio which would later gain me a place at Gray’s School of Art. My time at Gray’s – from 1977 to 1982 – featured four stand-out periods of discovery: 1. A summer scholarship in 1978 spent in Tuscany, during which I was introduced to the Quattrocento, sacred geometry, and multi-point perspective. 2. A summer scholarship in 1980 to Hospitalfield in Arbroath, where I experimented using 3D mathematics to underpin the composition of drawings and paintings. 3. Several visits in 1980 and 1981 to Achmelvich, on the West Coast of Scotland, during which I learnt how to paint and draw in the open air (which in Scotland is sometimes a real challenge). 4. In my 4th year in 1980-81, and also in my postgraduate year in 1981-82, learning how to write software to create and then display 3D computer models, which I then used as the basis for drawings and paintings. I also learnt how to use a CAD system at Scott Sutherlands School of Architecture. At the end of my postgraduate year, my external examiner - who was one of the senior lecturers in the Painting School at the Royal College of Art (RCA) – casually said to me in my viva, "We could do with a chap like you down at the RCA". I didn't think about it that day, but the next morning, woke up, thought “crikey”, and rushed down to the Gray’s and asked, "Where is he? Where is he?" and (as luck would have it) met him just as he was leaving. I said, "Can I have a place at the RCA?" and he replied, "Come and see us". So, from 1982 to 1984, I was at the RCA. I didn't want to create paintings, or prints, or sculptures. All I wanted to do was to write software to generate 3D pictures, view them on a monitor, and hang listings of my software on the studio wall. I kept on drawing and painting into the mid 1990’s. Drawing & Painting

2 This document is comprised of several sections. Pre-Gray’s School of Art – 1976 Drawing inspired by Jessie M. King Hospitalfield Summer Scholarship – 1980 Based in a Hospital built in 1260 to support a new Benedictine Abbey in Arbroath, Scotland, in 1902 Hospitalfield became an art school. From 2013, Hospitalfield became focused on a programme of funded artist residencies. Achmelvich – 1980 to 1982, Drawing & Painting in the Open Air My Gray’s lecturer Joyce Cairns took a dozen or so hardy souls, including me, for a week of drawing and painting in the open air to Achmelvich on the west coast of Scotland. This was the first of many inspirational trips that I made to this place of outstanding beauty. Into 3D – 1981 to 1982 Using 3D computer graphics to compose paintings. Drawings & Paintings – 1992 to 2001 Contents

3 Riders on the Storm – 1976 Ink & Watercolour featuring Lesley Sangster

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5 Hospitalfield Summer Scholarship – 1980 Arbroath, Scotland

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7 Insects & Leaves A2 pencil drawing

8 Insects & Leaves A2 pencil drawing

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11 Consider the Chasm A2 pencil drawing study for an oil painting - Christine (Kate) Jane Drummond, 1958 - 2018

12 Consider the Chasm A2 pencil drawing study for an oil painting - Christine (Kate) Jane Drummond, 1958 - 2018 Christine (Kate) Jane Drummond 1958 - 2018

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14 Priest A4 pencil drawing - illustration

15 Mask A4 pencil drawing - illustration

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17 Achmelvich – 1980 to 1982 Painting & Drawing in the Open Air

18 Waves 1 A3 watercolour

19 Waves 2 A3 watercolour

20 Waves 4 A3 watercolour

21 Barrow 2 A2 watercolour

22 Yellow Rock A3 watercolour

23 Brown Rock A3 watercolour

24 Selkie Diptych (Left) A3 watercolour

25 Selkie Diptych (Right) A3 watercolour

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27 After Achmelvich in the Studio – 1980 to 1982 White Man, A3 gouache

28 Consider the Mist Gouche study for an oil painting (approx. 20cm x 18cm)

29 Consider the Mist Oil painting (60”x 60”)

30 White Tomb A2 gouache

31 Sentinels A2 gouache

32 Q Glyph A2 gouache

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34 Q Ship A2 gouache

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37 Into 3D – 1981 to 1982

38 Ben Screel Crashed into the rocks at Girdleness Bay on January 18, 1933

39 The Ben Screel Boiler Also known as “The Lawnmower on the Edge of Time”

40 3D Model of parts of the Ben Screel Boiler 3D experimental “flat” perspective model.

41 Ben Screel Boiler Oil painting (60”x60”)

42 Nyet “Hand Crafted” 3D model.

43 Nyet “Hand Crafted” 3D model.

44 Nyet Created with the Cinema4d R22 Physical Renderer (2023) A 1981, and onwards, “hand crafted” 3D dataset rendered using the C4D version R10 Renderer

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46 Nyet A2 gouache study for oil painting

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48 Tomb “Hand Crafted” 3D model

49 Tomb “Hand Crafted” 3D model

50 Tomb Created with the Cinema4d R22 Physical Renderer (2023) .

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52 Tomb Oil painting (72”x42”)

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55 Drawings & Paintings – 1992 to 2001 Dreaming 2001 - A4 watercolour

56 Box 1992 A2 pencil drawing

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58 Egg 1992 A2 pencil drawing

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60 Twist 1993 A2 pencil drawing

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62 Plane 1993 A2 pencil drawing

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64 Fist Valley 1994 A3 watercolour

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66 Wreck Valley 1995 A3 watercolour

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68 Alien 2001 A2 pencil drawing

69 MA 2001 A2 pencil drawing