Lillie Art Gallery Exhibition
A short video to capture the wonderful space of the Gallery showing my work
Lillie Art Gallery
Pleased to say that I have 2 Galleries at the Lillie for my upcoming one man show focusing predominantly on my West Coast of Scotland work although some other pieces will also be featured – my new catalogue will also launch at the exhibition.
Déjeuner a la Botanics
A group of friends lunch in Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens
Oil on Canvas
50x60cms
Sunrise at Temple Wood, Kilmartin Glen
Capturing the mystical atmosphere of the stone circle at Temple Wood in Scotland’s ‘Valley of the Kings’ demanded a change from my normal painting style. Over 3000 years
old and used for ritual ceremonies, the site has a magical quality.
Oil on Canvas
50 x 60cms
Still Life – with a twist
As part of my new work in still life paintings I thought that it would be fun to add a bit of a twist to the traditional Scottish Colourists style – more to follow!
‘The Boathouse, Gigha’
Oil on Canvas, 16 x32″
SOLD
Portree Bay, Isle of Skye
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″/76x102cms
‘BONSAI’ Book Cover
An ex-Scot, Sandy Nicolson,living in San Francisco had bought a few of my paintings to remind him of home – the beaches and landscapes of the West Coast of Scotland.
Sandy had completed writing a novel and asked me if I was interested in coming up with ideas for the cover of the book – which, of course, I was delighted to do.
After looking at several options (one of which was a bonsai tree which had died and I sprayed silver to keep as a ‘object d’art’) my portrait of a friend’s daughter was chosen as it hinted at a key element in the storyline and seemed to invite finding out more.
As the novel says ‘everyone has a story to tell……’
Bonsai is available on Amazon in Kindle, Paperback and Hardback formats.
Spanish Sun
The Flower Shop
A change of environment necessitated a change of painting style – the hill top white villages of Southern Spain forced me into straighter lines and a different colour palette.
A few examples from the recent series of works.
Spanish Sun
The Blue Door
Spanish Sun
The Red Chair
Autumn in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow
Overlooking Glasgow University on an Autumn day – oil on canvas 60x80cms.
Arran from Skipness
Oil on Canvas, 23×38″(60x100cms) Framed size
Hand Finished Gilt Frame
Towards Rum and Eigg from Silversands
Oil on Canvas,23×38″(60x100cms) framed size
Hand Finished Gilt frame
Iona North End ‘Landscape’
Oil on Canvas, 16×40″ (40x100cms)
Towards Arran ‘Landscape’
Oil on Canvas, 16×40″ (40x100cms)
Cuillins Skyline
Oil on Canvas
40×40″ (100x100cms) on Deep Edge Canvas
Family Day at Skipness
Oil on Canvas, 40x60cms (16×20″)
SOLD
Loch Lomond
Oil on Canvas, 50x76cms (20×30″)
SOLD
Camusdarach Beach, Arisaig
Oil on Canvas, 20×48″ (50x120cms)
SOLD
On the Easel
A new size (40x80cms) and a bolder more simple brushstrokes in the first of a series of 5
A well known location of Skipness towards the north of Arran and Lochranza
Summer Harvest, Perthshire
Oil on Canvas
40×40″ (100x100cms) on Deep Edge Canvas
Mull Skyline
Oil on Canvas, 40×40″(100x100cms) on Deep Edge Canvas
Portree Bay, Skye
Oil on Canvas, (4ox40″) 100x100cms on Deep Edge Canvas
Sound of Mull Evening
Oil on Canvas, 40×40″( 100x100cms) on Deep Edge Canvas
Evening Sky over Rhum
Oil on Canvas, 40×40″ (100x100cms) on a Deep Edge Canvas
Knapdale Morning
Oil on canvas, 40×40″(100x100cms) on Deep Edge Canvas
Isle of Mull Headland
Oil on Canvas, 28×38″ (71x96cms) Framed size in Charcoal Matt Frame
Mull Peaks
Oil on Canvas, 28×38″(71x96cms) Framed size in Charcoal Matt Frame
Knapdale Sunset
Oil on Canvas, 28×38″(71x96cms) Framed size in Hand Finished Frame
Loch Fyne Evening
Oil on Canvas, 28″x38″(71x96cms) Framed size in Hand Finished Frame
‘Ferness’ (Local Hero – the movie)
Arguably the best Scottish movie ever made, directed by Bill Forsyth, ‘Local Hero’ tells the story of a USA oil company wanting to buy a small hamlet on the coast to develop as an oil terminal.
Set in the fictitious hamlet of ‘Ferness’ which actually was the village of Pennan on the east coast and the beach of Camusdarach on the west coast as the director could not find a location that met both his needs visually.
So the mythical ‘Ferness’ existed only on screen which is why I attempted, with a bit of artistic license, to create the place we could only see in the movie.
If you look hard enough you will find the famous telephone box.
If you haven’t seen the movie – it’s a gem.
Skipness Flower Meadow
Oil on Canvas in a Hand Finished Frame, overall size 46x56cms
Sanna Bay
Oil on Canvas in a Hand Finished Frame, overall size 46x56cms
Iona, North End
Oil on Canvas with a Hand Finished Frame, overall size 46x56cms
Crinan Harbour
Oil on Canvas in a Hand Finished frame, overall size 46x56cms
Crinan Ferry towards Jura
Oil on Canvas in a Hand Finished Frame, overall size 46x56cms
Gigha Bay
Oil on Canvas in a Hand Finished Frame, overall size 46x56cms
Portree Skyline
Oil on Canvas in Hand finished Frame, overall size 46x56cms
Sanna Bay Waves
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
Sanna Bay
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
Off to Texas, USA
‘Carsaig Bay’Knapdale – looking out across the Sound of Jura to the top end of Jura (where George Orwell lived and completed his novel 1984) on a sunny afternoon. A favourite spot of mine with the advantage of the Inn at Tayvallich nearby.
Bought from a Gallery in Edinburgh and shipped over to Texas.
‘Last Man Standing’ – 8th Ave, New York
Oil on Canvas, 29×48″
A regular ‘pilgrimage’ for me when I am in New York is a visit to 723 8th Avenue to see a solitary fragment of 3 buildings sitting alone on an empty block – doubtless waiting their fate of demolition in preparation for another towering skyscraper.
Hence I was determined to capture the scene before this view was lost forever.
As an ‘artwork’ in their own right, they give a hint of what the street would have looked like many years ago – full of colour and character, the Celtic Pub being quite magnificent with its open roof, sculptures and colourful facade reminiscent of the buildings on the Grand Canal in Venice.
However, all is not lost!
Last visit to Manhattan showed the pile drivers on site pounding away but, more importantly,
on the site hoarding an architect outline on the mighty and spectacular tower block soon to appear – SURROUNDING the three buildings- no less.
Now my visits will have a ‘shrine’ to worship at – a sacred piece of heritage preserved!
Thank God (just continuing the religious metaphor!)
Sunday Afternoon in Central Park, New York
Just in its finishing stages, 32×40″ in its frame – Oil on canvas.
I have always been fascinated by the huge rocks in Central Park and the contrast of the peace and tranquility of the Park with the view of the stunning City skyscape. The two girls sitting and contemplating the view were probably doing what the Native American Indians did many years ago – without the buildings, of course!
The ‘Contemplation Pool’ Gigha
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
Palm Beach, Gigha
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
SOLD
Tobermory Bay
Oil on canvas, 16×48″ (40x120cms)
SOLD
Oban Bay
Oil on Canvas, 16×40″ (40x110cms)
Iona Abbey – ‘the road ahead’
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
Framed in a hand finished and gilt frame
SOLD
Iona, towards Mull
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
White Sands, Iona
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
Skipness Flower Meadow
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
Iona North End
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
Heading Out – Crinan Basin
Oil on Canvas, 30x80cms
Crinan Sea Lock
Oil on Canvas, 30×80 cms
Kiloran Bay, Colonsay
Pentaptych, Oil on canvas, 5 Panels
overall size with spaces 80cms/32″x 163cms/64″
SOLD
Arran Landscape
Oil on Canvas on Board, palette knife work
21×40″/53x103cms
Caribbean Beach
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″, 76 x 102cms
On the Easel
Underway with my first triptych – the beach on Gigha across three canvases 32″x38″. Also moving on to a 5 panel painting just to see how it works! Still haven’t found out what you call a five panel painting!
Morning Ferry to Gigha
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″(76x102cms)
Safe Harbour, Gigha
Oil on Canvas 30×40″ (76x102cms)
Wild Flowers
Oil on Deep Edge Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
Arran Alps 2 – rainclouds gather
Oil on Canvas 30×40″ (76x102cms) ‘contrasting textures’
Arran Alps 1 – summer sky
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms) ‘contrasting textures’
SOLD
Wild Flowers
Oil on Canvas, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
£1850.00
Winter Tide
Oil on Canvas Painting, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
SOLD
Snow on Jura
Oil on Canvas Painting, 30×40″ (76x102cms)
Missing Girl Found
‘MISSING’ GIRLS FOUND
Following the search on local media friends soon identified the two girls prominently featured pulling their sledges in the snow – Jane and Rose from Glasgow’s West End. For Christmas they were presented with a copy of the painting by Stag Gallery owner Cameron Reid in Buchanan Galleries.
Sunset over Jura
Oil on Canvas, 30″ x 40″ (76cms x 102)
£3250.00 SOLD
Study – Oil on Board, 20″ x 30″ (51cms x 76)
Gigha Calm
Oil on Canvas, 30″ x 40″ (76cms x 102)
Gigha Tide Rush
Oil on Canvas, 30″ x 40″ (76cms x 102)
Skye Sunset
Oil on Canvas, 30″ x 40″ (76cms x 102)
Skye Westwards
Oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″ (76cms x 102)
Elgol, Skye Calm
Oil on Canvas, 30″ x 40″ (76cms x 102)
SOLD
Loch Fyne towards Arran
Oil on Canvas, 40″ x 30″, Deep edge Canvas
SOLD
Port Righ, Kintyre towards Arran
Oil on Canvas, 20″ x 30″
Loch Crinan View
Oil on Board, 10″ x 14″
On the Beach, Carsaig
Acrylic on Board, 16″ x 20″
Oronsay towards Jura and Islay
Acrylic on Canvas, 20″ x 48″
Westport – Machrihanish Beach
Acrylic on Canvas, 24″ x 32″
April Shower over Arran
Oil on Canvas 20″ x 30″
Silvercraigs Loch Fyne
Oil on Board, 20″ x 30″
Tarbert Loch Fyne
Oil on Canvas 12″ x 40″ Series 7 of 7
Ardrishaig
Oil on Canvas 12″ x 40″ Series 6 of 7
Lochgilphead
Oil on Canvas 12″ x 40″ Series 5 of 7
Cairnbaan
Oil on Canvas 12″ x 40″ Series 4 of 7
Bellanoch Islandadd Bridge
Oil on Canvas 12″ x 40″ Series 3 of 7
Bellanoch Marina
Oil on Canvas 12″ x 40″ Series 2 of 7
Crinan Basin
Oil on Canvas 12″ x 40″ / 1 of 7
Kilmory Bay, Knapdale
Oil on Canvas 20″x 60″ Diptych – two canvases
SOLD
Crinan Ferry towards the Paps of Jura
Oil on Canvas 20″ x 60″ Diptych – two canvases
SOLD
Loch Caolisport Knapdale
Oil on Canvas 38″x 38″
Clouds over Arran
Oil on Canvas 16″x 40″
Carsaig Bay, Mid Argyll
Oil on Canvas 30″x 40″ deep edge canvas
Sound of Jura
Oil on Canvas 30″x40″ deep edge canvas
Evening Sunset, Statfield Bay Knapdale
Oil on Canvas 30×40″ deep edge canvas
Loch Crinan
Oil on Canvas 30×40″ deep edge canvas
Skipness towards Arran
oil on canvas 30″x40″ deep edge canvas
SOLD
Kiloran Bay towards Mull (on the beach)
Oil on canvas 30″x40 deep edge canvas
SOLD
Port Righ, Morning
Acrylic on Canvas, Sketch Study, 16″ x 40″
Arran Panorama
Oil on Canvas, 14″ x 98″
Crinan Harbour, Mid Argyll
Oil on Board, 20″ x 30″
SOLD
Kiloran Bay 2, Colonsay
Acrylic on Canvas, 20″ x 48″
SOLD
Kiloran Bay 1, Colonsay
Acrylic on Canvas, 20″ x 40″
SOLD
Towards Jura
Oil on Canvas, 47″ x 47″
Tayvallich
Acrylic on Canvas 47″ x 47″
Caribbean Sunset
Acrylic on Canvas, 24″ x 32″
Tide Rush
Acrylic on Canvas, 24″ x 32″
Caribbean Reflections
Acrylic on Canvas, 24″ x 32″
Incoming Tide
Acrylic on Canvas, 24″ x 32″
Between the Rocks
Acrylic on Canvas, 24″ x 32″
Untied Ribbon
Acrylic on Canvas, 28″ x 36″
Peeping Tom
Oil on Canvas, 28″ x 36″
Behind the Line
Acrylic on Canvas, 28″ x 36″
At the Barre
Acrylic on Canvas, 28″ x 36″
Afternoon Rehearsal
Oil on Canvas, 28″ x 36″
Rosie – light and dark
Acrylic on Board – set of two pieces – each 36″ x 24″
Poolside a la Hockney
Oil on Canvas, 28″ x 36″
San Gimignano,Tuscany
Acrylic on Board, 20″ x 24″
Spring, Kensington Gardens
Acrylic on Board, 19″ x 23″
Grande Canal, Venice
Acrylic on Board, 9″ x 24″
Grande Canal, Venice, detail
Acrylic on Board, 9″ x 12″
The Crinan Canal Poster
An A2 Poster 420mm x 594mm featuring six key locations on the Canal journey –
Ardrishaig, Lochgilphead, Cairnbaan, Bellanoch Islandadd Bridge, Bellanoch Marina and Crinan Basin
Price £19.99 plus £2.50 post and packing (UK) – unframed