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born 1963 Aberdeen, Scotland.

1980-84 BSc Biochemistry, University of Edinburgh.

1988-91 BA Fine Art Photography Glasgow School of Art.

1991 Visual Artist. Living and working in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Originated a circular, aerial, panoramic, photomontage, with the camera suspended 6.5m( 20 feet) off the ground. Developed circular technique in order to research prehistoric monuments. Developing the idea that they can be partly understood as abstract art, as pictures on the ground, and as an expression of the way that early peoples perceived their surroundings, based on a “circular” horizon.

Work widens in subject matter to suggest a circular way of looking as a metaphor for a curved (non-Euclidean) geometry of space and time. This is proposed as a counter to Renaissance perspective, based on Cartesian rectilinear space and time. The pictures also imply a fresh balance between the viewer and the surrounding environment, a naturalistic feeling for passing time, and allow a discontinuity in perception. 

The range of work includes circular photomontage pictures from New York, Portugal, Slovakia, Thailand, India, Denmark, England, Rhodes, Côte d'Azur, and throughout Scotland.