Describe your hometown Aberdeen in one sentence.

What is typically Scottish?

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• Kilts
• Bagpipes (2)
• Fiddle (violin, which I play!)
• Haggis (3)
• A really good ceilidh dance (4)

Which are your 3 favourite places in Scotland?

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Phew, only 3? It is very difficult to narrow my favourite places in Scotland down to 3!

• Skye, specifically the ’Spar Cave‘
• Durness
• The Fife coastline

What are your 3 favourite places in Great Britain?

• the Lake District
• and Whitby Bay is lovely

I would then have to return to Scotland and say anywhere down the West Coast and the Outer Hebrides!

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What is your motto for life?

Which 3 things would you take with you to a desert island (5)?

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• Good walking boots
• A water-catching system
• Sun cream (I burn too easily)

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What were your milestones in your career as an artist?

• Being commissioned by some large companies including the Highland Wildlife Park and Chest, Heart Stroke Charity.
• Winning the competition to design a label for Cairn O’ Mohr wines and seeing these labels on the bottles in our local supermarket!
• Having designs selected for 5+ charity sculpture trails across Scotland.
• Producing an actual game!! [Anm. der Redaktion: Waters Edge – ein wirklich tolles Spiel, das ihr natürlich auch bei Lovely British Somethings kaufen könnt! WATERS EDGE]
• Hopefully, in the not too distant future, tipping the balance from my day job to working as an artist mainly. So the other way around to now

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What are the things that inspire you most?

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• Other illustrators
• Nature
• Adventures and the outdoors
• Books I read
• Conversations with my partner.

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What was your best nature-experience?

• Wild-camping as I tackled (6) the Cateran Trail (7) myself
• Cycling around Isle of Arran solo
• Tackling my first two Munro (mountains over 3000ft) solo
• Rescuing a moth stuck on the surface tension of a pond and letting it dry on my hand before it flew off
• Helping a sheep getting back on its feet
• Wading (8) down streams in trainers, building damns in the sand to re-route a little stream.

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What is your favourite sandwich?

Oooh, this is random (9)! and so is my answer…. I love corned beef with plain soft cheese and hula hoops standing upright – can’t beat a crisp sandwich!