A landscape painting in acrylics on a portrait orientation canvas. The lower two thirds of the canvas are taken by a bleak, textural brown hillside with little features except marks scratched into wet paint, suggesting grasses. Above, on top of the hill is a stone circle of 22 tall stones with irregular shapes and height, seen in silhouette against a delicate sky of cloudy lilacs and pinks, with a faint area yellowish sun. The point of view is from below, giving a feeling of smallness, distance and perhaps inferring reverence.

Callanish

24 x 20″ (50 x 60 cm) Original Acrylic On Canvas. From sketches and photos made at Callanish Stone Circle, Isle of Lewis, Scotland during a wet and windy week in February 2012. The Isle of Lewis has it’s own special colours – especially during the late afternoon in the Scottish Winter, when the landscape …

A landscape painting of a beach in acrylics in a somewhat painterly style. A view over dry tall yellow grasses, with a wandering wire fence strung between sturdy wooden fence posts, leads to a golden sandy beach. A few tiny figures - an adult and two children can be seem on the sand. A large headland stretches out from the right side of the canvas, encircling a bay of deep blue calm water. the headland seems rugged and carpeted by green and rusty orange foilage that follows its contours. Buffy, scudding clouds move across a weak blue sky.

Calgary Bay, Mull

16 X 20″ Acrylic on canvas. Exploring the wonderful wild weather of Calgary Bay on the Isle of Mull, from sketches and photographs made at Easter 2010. Longing to return… On deep edged canvas, edges painted a complimentary blue / grey and free of staples – ready to hang, or frame as you wish. SOLD