For my exhibition From the Forest to the Forge I specially created a suite of dry point engravings. It was my first venture into printmaking, and I was hugely helped by the wonderful team @thamessideprint. #fromtheforesttotheforge @scottishgallery until -22 Nov

Industry and nature are often presented as being in perennial conflict. But as an artist I find both subjects equally compelling. Britain’s natural and industrial landscapes are interdependent; they affect and influence one another #fromtheforesttotheforge @scottishgallery-22 Nov

On my first painting day at Govan the @royalnavy Type 45 destroyer @hms.duncan was nearing completion on the slipway. She was one of the last vessels ever to be launched into the Clyde using the traditional 'dynamic' launch process #fromtheforesttotheforge @scottishgallery

My visits to engineering sites, factories, slate quarries and mines have, over the years, enabled me to compile an unusual archive of drawings and paintings - essentially a picture history of modern British industry @scottishgallery #fromtheforesttotheforge 30 Oct-22 Nov

Here’s a look at the very first sketchbook I completed when I spent a week drawing at Govan shipyard, 15 years ago. @scottishgallery #fromtheforesttotheforge 30 Oct-22 Nov

Opening tomorrow From the Forest to the Forge considers how industry has shaped British landscape & culture. The exhibition features paintings that document thriving British industries alongside the last days of steel production in Redcar @scottishgallery #fromtheforesttotheforge 30Oct-22Nov

Growing up in Glasgow I often heard my father describe the days when the Clyde bustled with shipbuilding but by the 80s the River was silent. So I began to draw the archaeology of a dying industrial landscape @scottishgallery #fromtheforesttotheforge 30 Oct-22 Nov

Sketchbooks are essential to the work I have undertaken at industrial locations across the UK over the last 15 years. Here’s one I completed at Govan shipyard @scottishgallery #fromtheforesttotheforge 30 Oct-22 Nov

From the Forest to the Forge includes many works inspired by woods, trees, and the wonders of natural engineering @scottishgallery #fromtheforesttotheforge 30 Oct-22 Nov

At Govan 100s of steel units were welded together into vast blocks, measuring 7 decks in height. These segments were then shipped from the Clyde to the Firth of Forth where the 2 carriers were assembled in a huge drydock at Rosyth @babcockinternationalgroup #fromtheforesttotheforge @scottishgallery

My exhibition From the Forest to the Forge features drawings illustrating the dismantling of immense @Shell offshore rigs, structures which once defined the North Sea Oil boom. @scottishgallery #fromtheforesttotheforge 30 Oct-22 Nov

My new exhibition includes drawings & paintings produced in the forests of the Scottish Borders and in Dorset, environments that share the sublime scale & intricacy I often encountered on heavy engineering sites @scottishgallery #fromtheforesttotheforge 30 Oct-22

Many of the works in From the Forest to the Forge record the advance of innovative new technologies including the satellite manufacturing labs operated in the UK by @airbus_space @scottishgallery #fromtheforesttotheforge 30 Oct-22 Nov

For my new exhibition I gained access to the @BAESystemsplc shipyards in Govan and Scotstoun, the last two major yards surviving on the Clyde & my first visits around 2010 coincided with a resurgence of shipbuilding activity @scottishgallery #fromtheforesttotheforge 30 Oct-22 Nov

Britain’s industry can feel at odds with its pastoral beauty, but artist @lachlangoudie.bsky.social sees deep connections.

His #fromtheforesttotheforge exhibition runs 30 Oct–22 Nov at The Scottish Gallery, Edinbugh.

Over the last decade I was able to document the resilience of @LibertySteelGrp
steel rolling at Dalzell, on a site adjacent to the once immense Ravenscraig steel works #fromtheforesttotheforge @scottishgallery until -22 Nov

From the Forest to the Forge features portraits of the workers I have encountered - people who often identify closely with the history and the economic importance of the jobs they do #fromtheforesttotheforge @scottishgallery until -22 Nov