I'll be working soon with my crazy buddy and fellow Stray Dog David 'Big Dave' Downie on some interventionist-type projects along a stretch of canal in Falkirk. There are lots of cool victorian-era features along the canal paths such as this mysterious alcove...

The first linocut print from my super-expensive 'back-of-a-pudding-spoon' press. This is Brian, who didn't recognise himself when I showed it to him...

Here's a pic of the layout model for the public art commission which I didn't get in the end. Damn it.

It was a good project to work on though, and it was good to get the experience of presenting a proposal to a panel... hopefully I won't sweat so much next time!

A community art project I taught at a school in Aberdeen won an award! Check out the article, sadly no mention of my name but i did do it, honest guv!

Well, just finished the public painting project with Brian today. It was excellent fun - I totally recommend collaborating with other artists as a way to boost energy for your own work... It turned out to be a sweet, sunny day and a few friends stopped by to see what we were up to. It was done on found cardboard with old house paint and acrylic.

This pic shows the mural after we stopped (about 6 hours of work). I think I liked it a little better about 1-2 hours before this, but it was more about having fun and just being out painting on a sunny sunday. Luckily, our good friend Jon Reid recorded the whole process and is making a time-lapse film for us.

Its a nerve-racking day today... I'm waiting to hear if I got a public art commission I was short-listed for at the new train station in Aberdeen. My idea was to build two 3 metre concrete sound mirrors to sit across from each other in a civic square.

Really excited to work with my good friend Brian on a collaborative mural this sunday at a park in Aberdeen. We'll be building a big cardboard wall and getting crazy all over that sucker...