A seascape painting in impasto acrylics with physical texture. Thin clouds seem to scud at speed into elongated shapes on a watery blue sky. A rugged headland, picked out in near blacks and dark oranges, juts out from the left side. The sea looks agitated and waves break up against the rocks before washing out onto grey sand, making it wet and silvery.

‘Oldshoremore II’

8 x 12″ (21 x 31 x 4 cm) Original – Acrylics on box framed canvas. Oldshoremore Beach at sundown (Sutherland, Highlands of Scotland). Original chunky edged canvas (1 3/4″ deep), with edges painted a co-ordinating mid-blue. In Artists own private collection. (SOLD)

Dram

A dram in front of the fire on a Winter’s night. What a like about the image is the finger prints on the glass, which save what would otherwise be quite a stylised and twee image – it brings in the humanity and it forces you to consider the person (out sight) who is about to enjoy …