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Working drawing – Glen Rosa, Isle of Arran

Posted by admin on April 4th, 2014
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Working drawing, Glen Rosa. Isle of Arran

Working drawing – Glen Rosa, Isle of Arran 

As you already know, I’m planning to create a large 4 m long drawing during my exhibition at the Harbour Arts Centre in November / December this year.  The drawing will be about walking up Glen Rosa on the Isle of Arran.   I’ve walked this glen many times and have been over there once again this year to do sketches and take photographs……another trip there is due shortly.  I’ve started working on ideas for how to do the big drawing, playing around with different types of mark and composition.  This drawing is one of the latest although I’ve actually played around with the image on my computer to end up with this.

I’m really not sure how the big drawing will look when completed but I’m enjoying these early stages of working rough ideas through and trying them out.

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‘Towards Glen Coe, late afternoon, January’

Posted by admin on March 29th, 2014
313s 'Towards Glen Coe, late afternoon, January', Acrylic & Pastel, 2014, 80 x 80 cm

‘Towards Glen Coe, late afternoon, January’

‘Towards Glen Coe, late afternoon, January’, Acrylic & Pastel, 2014, 80 x 80 cm

This is the latest 80 x 80 cm acrylic and pastel painting I’ve completed. It’s based on the view looking towards Glencoe on a very cold January afternoon. We’d had a short but enjoyable walk in deep snow up the Devil’s Staircase but the snow was too bad to venture up on the tops as we’d planned and so we’d retreated and were heading home. It was a long way to drive for such a short walk but that’s the way it goes sometimes and at least I got a painting out of it!

The painting is currently hanging in my studio at the Courtyard Studios in Irvine so if you’re in the area, do call in to see it. I’ll be in the studio this weekend from 12 noon until 19.30 both days.

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‘Towards Arran’

Posted by admin on March 22nd, 2014
'Towards Arran', Acrylic & Pastel, 2014, 76 x 23 cm

‘Towards Arran’

‘Towards Arran’, Acrylic and Pastel, 2014, 76 x 23 cm

Over the years I’ve had many people ask if I have painted the Isle of Arran from over on the Ayrshire coast.  I finally decided to have a go and this new 76 x 23 cm painting is the result.  For me to see Arran from the coast near my studio I have to use a monocular and so this is I guess the kind of view I see.

The painting is not yet framed but is in my studio now if anyone wants to call by to see it……although you’d best give a quick call first (07742 437425) just to check I’ll be there ….it’s that time of year again and we’re starting to go walking more regularly!

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‘From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret’

Posted by admin on March 13th, 2014
173 'From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret', Acrylic & Pastel, 2010, 30 x 30 cm

‘From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret’

 

‘From Carn Chois, above Loch Turret’, Acrylic & Pastel, 2010, 30 x 30 cm

I was recently asked to add a couple of paintings to the selection I have hanging in Braidwoods Restaurant near Dalry.  This is one of the five pieces they now have and it is based on the hills above Loch Turret just to the north of Crieff.  This is an excellent walking area and a wonderful place to see mountain hares.

Anyway, Braidwoods is one of the top restaurants in North Ayrshire and so if you’re visiting it, do look out for my paintings while you’re there.

Braidwoods is around half an hour’s pleasant drive from Glasgow towards the West Coast of Scotland and It is based in Dalry, Ayrshire, KA24 4LN

You can contact the restaurant on 01294 833 544

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‘From Ghlas Beinn, Rannoch moor’

Posted by admin on March 9th, 2014
29 'From Ghlas Beinn, Rannoch moor', Acrylic & Pastel, 76 x 23 cm

‘From Ghlas Beinn, Rannoch moor’

‘From Ghlas Beinn, Rannoch moor’, Acrylic & Pastel, 76 x 23 cm

This is a painting I created a number of years ago. I’ve always liked this piece but about two years ago I got it back from a gallery to find that the frame had been quite badly scraped. I couldn’t exhibit it anywhere else in that condition and so put it aside and got on with other things. I must admit I rather forgot about it until recently when I was looking for something else and came across it again.

Despite it being a few years old, I still rate this painting and so have decided to put it into a new frame and get it up on the wall once more.

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‘Assynt skyline, May’

Posted by admin on February 27th, 2014

185 'Assynt skyline, May', Acrylic & Pastel, 2011, 30 x 30 cm 

‘Assynt skyline, May’, Acrylic & Pastel, 2011, 30 x 30 cm

It’s been a beautiful sunny afternoon here in Irvine and it really feels like spring is just around the corner.  Got me thinking about our holiday which is rapidly getting closer. ….just a couple of months now.  We’ve booked a caravan on a small site at Achmelvich just to the north of Lochinver.  We’ve been there several times now but it is such a beautiful spot that we keep getting drawn back to it.  The scenery is just spectacular, especially if you get some fine May weather.  I did this small painting after our last holiday there.  Hopefully get some new paintings done this year too.

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‘Fresh snow, January 1st 2013, the Ochil’s’

Posted by admin on February 21st, 2014
16 'Fresh snow, January 1st 2013, the Ochils', Acrylic & pastel, 2013, 30 x 30 cm

‘Fresh snow, January 1st 2013, the Ochils’

‘Fresh snow, January 1st 2013, the Ochil’s’, Acrylic & pastel, 2013, 30 x 30 cm

I did this small painting last year after we visited the Ochil Hills on a particularly fine New Years Day.  The view looks past the slopes of Craighorn which we descended for the first time last Sunday and it makes a fine route off of the hill.  This painting is currently hanging in my studio and is for sale, priced £485.

To read more about our recent visit to these fine small hills, click this link to my latest blog which includes four photos taken that day.

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‘Winter, Blackmount’

Posted by admin on February 14th, 2014
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‘Winter, Blackmount’

‘Winter, Blackmount’, Acrylic & Pastel, 2010, 76 x 23 cm

I created this painting after our first visit to Ghlas Bheinn.  I’ve now used the left hand side of it as the starting point for a new more abstract 80 x 80 cm oil painting, (see my latest blog).   Both are based on a scene looking towards Clach Leathad with its huge southern face covered in snow.

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‘January morning, Glen Rosa, Isle of Arran’

Posted by admin on February 9th, 2014
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‘January morning, Glen Rosa, Isle of Arran’

‘January morning, Glen Rosa, Isle of Arran’, Graphite on paper, 2013, 125 x 80 cm

This drawing seemed like an appropriate piece to use for the Artwork of the week this week.   I created it after our walk up Glen Rosa in January last year and yesterday we went back there.  In January 2013 it was a good deal colder with snow on all the tops and well down to the base of the glen below Cir Mhor.  It made for a great scene with the white cloud merging into the snow and the rocks and heather sticking through the snow in dark patches.  Much less snow yesterday and what there was thawing quickly in the bright patches of sun we had.

This drawing is currently framed and hanging in my studio…..if you like it and live in the area ….why not call down to the Courtyard Studios to see it.  You can check that I’ll be there, call 07742 437425.

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‘Towards the Lawers group’

Posted by admin on January 31st, 2014

‘Towards the Lawers group’, Acrylic & Pastel, 2006,

'Towards the Lawers group', Acrylic and Pastel, 2006, 91.5 x 34 cm, sold_1

‘Towards the Lawers group’

I was talking about hills with a visitor to my studio the other day and they mentioned Ben Lawers Nita and I have walked this big hill a good number of times over the last 15 years and it always makes for a fine day, especially so if its lofty summit is clear.  At a little under 4000 ft you certainly feel like you’re on top of the world when you’re sat at its sometimes busy top, with spectacular views all around the Southern Highlands.

Anyway, I found myself thinking about this painting and thought it’d make a good ‘Artwork of the week’.  It is based on a view we had looking towards the group of hills of which Ben Lawers is the dominant peak.  It made a fine scene from a neighbouring Corbett and I remember standing for a good few minutes on this frost covered hilltop just staring at this amazing winter scene.

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