One of the latest of the Moray Coast works in the exhibition ‘Coast Road Diaries 2007-2009, ‘Cullykhan’ is a cliff edge encounter reduced down to 3 key elements: the gouache sea, ink cliffs and the swirled marram grass of  watecolour. Each aspect of the place is considered at an abstract level in its relationship with each other. I found this place as solo diversion en route to joining my family in the scattering of my father’s ashes across the mouth of the Ythan Estuary in Newburgh.

It was a beautiful cold February morning following a week of gales. The sea far below was still heaving and churning, iridescent in the winter sun. So beautiful, I sat on this edge thinking of my father and how he would have loved this place, just 15 miles east from Whitehills where his father grew up.

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