Ever visited a clootie well? Even if you don’t believe in magic – they are pure visual magic! Clootie Wells are spots where ancient customs prevail. They are found in the Celtic corners of the UK and centre on a natural spring, usually surrounded by trees. Through history people have visited these special wells in …
March Incoming Tide, Achmelvich 20 x 16″ (50 × 40 × 4 cm) Original Painting – Mixed Media On Canvas Created from photo’s, sketches and video made at the beach in Achmelvich, Sutherland (Highlands of Scotland) in March 2014 (previously unseen on the website). We took a trip to the West Coast, travelling across the …
Ballone Castle sits out on the wild and windswept Tarbat Peninsula, near the villages of Portmahomack and Rockfield. This far tip of the peninsula projects so out in to the North Sea that it forms a favourite spot for spotting dolphins and whales (and, if you ask my daughters, mermaids). Even though we live only …
20 x 20″ (51 × 51 × 4 cm) Original – Acrylic and varnished charcoal on a deep edge box frame canvas, with the painting continued onto all sides. Receding Tide – From photo’s and memories at one of my local beaches in Easter Ross in the Highlands of Scotland. The sea is retreating as …
20 x 24″ (50 × 60 × 4 cm) Original Painting – Mixed Media On Canvas A Winter sunset in Easter Ross over fields on the Tain peninsula, Ross-shire, Highlands of Scotland, near the artists home. Rendered in mixed media, on a box frame canvas with the painting continued onto all sides. Signed on rear …
20 x 30″ (50 × 76 × 4 cm) Mixed Media on canvas This boat is a much-photographed Scottish landmark of the Isle of Mull, at Pennyghael on the banks of Loch Scridain on the West of the Island. It’s in one of the most beautiful spots, overlooked by the towering Munro, Ben More. I …
Family portrait using natural light at the end of the afternoon. Taken in Scotsburn Wood near Tain, Ross-shire, Highlands of Scotland.
16 x 32″ (40 x 80cm) Acrylic on canvas. Loose brushstrokes convey the storm that sweeps down the Dornoch Firth from the Kyle of Sutherland and Ardgay and Bonar Bridge towards Tain and Dornoch. Painted from photographs and memories from a vantage point on the A9 Dornoch Bridge crossing – no sketches, it was too …
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 …
Landscape photo taken in January looking over Loch Glascarnoch on the road between Ullapool and Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.