Gosh well it has been a long time since I shared any of my art with you. I have not given up making art, I have just changed my focus.
While I was driving to work each morning, I would go past the beautiful west of Scotland coastline for about forty miles each day on my way to teach in two small rural villages. One of these villages was right on the sea front and called Ballantrae!
There is a Pirate festival every year to celebrate the link the village has had with smuggling and pirates. In the past Ballantrae was a busy fishing village and plenty of wealth came into the harbour.
I heard stories of contraband being hidden in the minister's secret compartment under the floor boards and how the villagers were involved in various plots to keep the contraband hidden. This was very inspiring to me and gave me ideas to write about.
The journey to these two villages were for me quite long and boring, however my imagination invented a character called Millie - who is a mermaid who lives around the coast line of the West of Scotland.
When the weather was dull or foggy, in my head Millie would say " I am Millie the Mermaid, can you see me?'
As I was driving along,I took the chance to look out to the ocean and take a mental note of what image impressed me and I would then draw what I saw. Some days it was foggy some days - very clear and when the sun shone it was beautiful. I especially liked Ailsa Craig as it is on view right round this coast. So here I am two years later and would like to post some of the images I have enjoyed working on over the last year or two.
