Evening on the River Clyde, Glasgow by Hamish Paterson (2009)

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Description Looking east over the River Clyde from the south bank, the derelict ship building crane, once the hub of Glasgow ship building industry, is now surrounded by modern buildings.

Hamish Paterson, Glasgow, Scotland
Member Since December 2009
Artist Statement I was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and lived in Singapore during my childhood years, travelling to Scotland to be educated, firstly in the golfing town of St. Andrews in Fife and then on to the shores of Loch Rannoch in Perthshire nestled in the heart of the Scottish highlands.

My interest in photography was born at an early age with the fortune to be taught at Rannoch School how to work an SLR camera, compose a shot, develop film and print photographs. But, like many others, work took over and my photography became a high days and holidays hobby.

Coming from a long line of creative Scots and the Great Grandson of the father of The Glasgow Boys, James Paterson, RSA. I decided to settle in Scotland after leaving school and my career within the hospitality industry took me to various destinations. I finally moved to my ancestral City of Glasgow in 2005.

It was only once I settled here that my passion for photography revived itself, stirred on by the beauty of the city with its architecture, open parklands, the River Clyde dividing the city as it flows from east to west and the diversity of the people living and visiting, not to mention the spare time I discovered having undertaken a industry move.

To prepare me for this new beginning, I bought myself a Nikon D80 DSLR camera along with a few lenses and took myself off to update my knowledge at Stow College studying Classical Photography and Photoshop CS3.

This, along with meeting like minded people, gave me the drive to take this to the next level and here we are...