My name is Gordon McLeman. I've had a varied career, from Geophysicist to Tax Specialist and I'm now a full-time self-taught artist living in Aberdeen, Scotland.

This is the link to my YouTube Channel, an Etsy discount code is given at the end of each video : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkBn7YSmei0zA0ExFfOB4Tw

My interest in watercolour painting began back in the early 1990s when a spell working in Cornwall, England, gave me the inspiration to get started. Since retiring from my job in 2017 I now paint whenever I can, and thanks mainly to my online shop my original works and prints can now be found in private collections across the UK, North America, Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and India.

I paint whatever takes my fancy at but am happiest with sea-scapes and landscapes and, more recently, stylised line portraits. I mostly work in pen and watercolour, in a range of styles depending on my mood at the time. I mostly use Winsor & Newton or Daniel Smith artists quality watercolour paints and Bockingford or Saunders Waterford paper. Recently I've been experimenting with digital art on my iPad.

I print my own work on a Canon printer using genuine Canon inks and Canon 260gm/m2 Pro Luster paper. This combination delivers exceptional long lasting prints with a beautiful lustre finish for great colour saturation and a soft feel, and will look great with a mount and framed in any environment.

I can supply my originals and prints framed for UK customers. I use either moulded black, rough-textured white or smooth natural wood effect frames with 'snow-white' or 'ice-white' mounts, depending on what I think looks best for the piece. These are the names given by my mount supplier. I would say that 'ice-white' is a bright white whereas 'snow-white' is slightly off-white.