Craigievar In bloom half-dreamed – and full of

half-dreamed – and full of character

but more a memory of it… a place half-seen

This could be a tree line or a range of hills but

it prompted me to look again at the language of his work: the crowns

Craigievar In bloom half-dreamed – and full of20 x 20 cm Craigievar is one of those castles that almost feels invented already tall, pink, slightly theatrical and wonderfully improbable against the Aberdeenshire landscape. In this painting Ive tried to capture that slight sense of theatre and fairytale, where the building seems to rise out of the trees as much from imagination as from stone. It is not a literal view of the castle, but more a memory of it a place half seen, half dreamed and full