I continued to attend evening classes and Dollar Summer School during this time, until I applied to, and was accepted by, Dundee College of Art. The natural environment. From childhood, I loved the Dochart River rock formations at Killin and especially the beach with its pebble scatter at places like the far North-West, Sutherland. Microscopic images, looking at cells, biological, plant-cells and geological structure. Stars and galaxies, using scientific instruments that are expanding the visual world.
Ideas come from walking and looking.
Terry Winterson, Mark Wright - biological works. Antonio Tapies - the way he's developed, use of materials like marble dust, bitumen, both strong physicl sense and spiritual quality, but more chancy. Joseph Beuys, Kiefer - their alchemy and transformation. More elegaic, the outer reality leading inward, like a Noguchi house and garden with hand-picked stones to fit the motion of a stream. My family is very supportive, but there is space restriction as far as art goes.