In November 2025 I've been in the wonderful city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, taking part in the BEam International Artist's residency.
The other artists were Louisa Di Felice and writer/ journalist Anjali Khosla.
The work is centred around themes of the connection between life and death, nature and medicine and features my father, who was ill and died during this time.
The first painting is called Resonance.
It represents my Dad, who was in a Scottish pipe band during retirement, holding his bagpipes in front of the fjord, where he lived in Oslo, with a reference to Edvard Munch in both the swirling landscape and the babies. ( Munch sometimes includes babies or fetuses in his paintings or prints of women, so I thought it would be good to do so with a man who helped a lot of them survive. )
Resonance, oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm, 2025
The next painting is called Life Support. This depicts my father again, surrounded by 'special care' babies and patterns of growth and nature, inspired by Byzantine tomb paintings that I saw in the museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki. It evokes ideas about the fragility of life, interdependency, science and nature.
Life Support, Oil on Canvas, 2025, 150 x120 cm