Gamrie is the local name for Gardenstown. I use this name for these sheds because this particular street of storage seems essentially local. No-one lives in these sheds, yet they still form a street of human activity, somehow. They contain trackless memories and personal stuff that gets stored behind locked shed doors for practical purposes. This drawing more than any other uses a very ‘open’ ink and brush technique, less laboured than much of my work. The Gamrie Sea Sheds is part of a major series of large scale drawing using techniques first fully explored during a winter residency in the village of Gardenstown on the north coast of the Moray Firth in Aberdeenshire.

The work is currently on tour in the exhibition ‘The Coast Road Diaries 2007-2009’ catalogue available from The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Scotland £10 + p&p.