Lochside Castle
Mixed media on board, 30 × 30 cm
A remembered tower emerges from a dense field of colour, printed fragments and repeated house forms. Architectural motifs are reduced to rhythmic marks, allowing the image to oscillate between landscape and constructed surface. The work treats place as an accumulation of visual memory rather than a fixed view, where pattern, colour and drawing combine to create a layered, improvised structure.
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Lochside Castle
Acrylic and collage on board
In this work, the vertical presence of a white tower rises from a densely woven matrix of cottages, trees and geometric fragments. The castle stands as both landmark and symbol — permanence within flux — surrounded by vivid passages of citrus yellow, emerald, vermilion and rose.
Decorative motifs, musical notation and printed text surface through translucent paint layers, forming a dialogue between history and contemporary visual language. The composition is energetic yet held together by strong structural drawing; the clustered houses create rhythm, almost musical in their repetition.
Here, landscape becomes constructed memory. The castle is less a monument than a focal point within a living, breathing tapestry of colour — a reminder that heritage is not static, but continually reimagined through perception and paint.
