2024 - Review of the Year

7/1/2025

My 'top 9' of 2024 from Instagram - the most liked images of the year

2024 has come to an end and it was a strange year in many respects. It began with lots of uncertainty over the harbour - my home for the summer - which was badly damaged in a series of storms over the winter. The beach huts were afloat a number of times, but despite quite a battering they all survived mostly unscathed, bar a few scrapes. The harbour wall was not so lucky, suffering a huge breach in the sea defence wall. As is normal for North Berwick however, the community rallied round and turned out to help tidy up the mess on the esplanade and around the harbour area, whilst fundraising began for the major repairs needed.
The first couple of months of 2024 I was busy painting for my stand at Borders Art Fair which takes place annually in March. Huge fun, very tiring and I met lots of great people!
By April I was back set up in my beach hut gallery/studio for the summer with all my beach hut buddies, in a new spot nearer to the harbour. Our old location on the esplanade was being used for the engineering contractors Southbay Civil Engineering who were rebuilding the harbour wall. What a fabulous bunch they were - kept us amused all summer!

In addition to exhibiting at the Borders Art Fair, the East Linton Annual Art Exhibtion (which I curated) and the two North Berwick Art Group shows, I was really happy to have paintings selected for a number of prestigious exhibitions during the year -

  Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition 2024, London.
  Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show 'Now&Then', Dalkeith Palace.
  Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, London.
  Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

And I finished the year by being accepted as a member of NAPA - the National Acrylic Painters' Association - and I look forward displaying my work with them at future exhibitions.