Studies
The Space to Explore
These studies offer a glimpse into my process—smaller pieces where ideas take shape, sometimes becoming finished works in their own right. They help me move forward, freeing me from the weight of the final canvas and opening space to explore, play, and follow instinct wherever it leads.
Each piece is 30 x 30 cm, painted on hardboard. Price: 1,500 DKK (including 25% Danish VAT). Free shipping within Denmark.
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Waves of Light and Dark
These abstract works emerged from a deep, instinctive connection to the sea—its beauty, power, and ever-present sense of drama. I lived in Buckie, a town on the Moray coast, from the age of nine, where the sea shaped everything around us. For many, it was livelihood, landscape, and, at times, a source of great loss. A number of local fishing boats were lost—a devastating time for the town and everyone connected to it. As a kid, I also remember watching 20-metre waves crashing against the harbour wall, towering above everything—beautiful, dramatic, and impossible to forget.
At 17, I moved to Aberdeen, the city of my birth, and worked in its oil industry-dominated hospitality sector. From the 1970s, Aberdeen had transformed into an ‘oil boom city,’ its economy and culture deeply connected to the North Sea’s ‘black gold.’ That success, however, was also marked by its own tragedies—helicopter accidents, and most of all, the Piper Alpha disaster. I was living in the city when it happened, and like the whole of the North East of Scotland, felt the enormous loss.
These paintings aren’t responses to specific events, but reflections of that lifelong relationship—the way the sea, for me, holds beauty, power, and a dark unease all at once.