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Antigua, January
58 x 92 cm
£ 1950
I swapped a painting for 2 weeks in an Antiguan beach club for me and the family. Fair trade.
The Paps
100 x 150 cm
£ 4500 instead of £6000
Painted at magical Port Ban, otters and eagles for company.
Balevulin Bay
100 x 150 cm
£ 4500 instead of £6000
Painted on a glorious day in what was a mixed week of weather on the blessed Isle of Tiree.
Balevulin Surf
44 x 48 cm
£ 1000 instead of £1250
Atlantic surf rolling relentlessly ashore, emerald water and azure skies.
South across the Maze
75 x 122 cm
£ 3000
One of the world's best surfing beaches. Gingerly manoeuvred Bertha down through the Machair along old trails and was relieved and pleased to reach the Northern tip of the bay in one piece.
Balevulin Evening
28 x 30cm
£ 695
Surf crashing in with the Outer Hebrides ghosting over the horizon in the evening light. Seen in its frame, available framed or unframed. On view at Milton Gallery.
Vaul
40 x 42 cm
£ 800
My last painting on Tiree for 2023. A grey wet unpromising day, it being my last on the island, I needed to make it count. Went up to Vaul, an astoundingly beautiful place with ancient ruined black houses showing off their remarkable masonry. A gorgeous bay. hinting at its brilliant colours hiding under the grey rain, a rusting seed drill warranting a closer look. Lazy Atlantic swell crumping onto the rocks. Corncrakes rasping on the machair.
Hebridean Blues
50 x 70 cm
£ 1400
Coral beaches, islets, islands and invisibly clear water. On a clear day the highlands and islands are heaven on earth.
The Paps
20 x 20 cm
£ 380
Gentle modulations in greys and blues. For sale at Carina Haslam Gallery
The Cold Grey Sound
26 x 36 cm
£ 600 instead of £750
A icy day on Kintyre, looking across the cold wind-swept Sound to the hints of Jura hiding in the low scudding clouds.
Crear
40 x 40 cm
£ 700
A gorgeous November day. Bracken golden browns and metallic blue sea in the chilly sunshine.
Jura
30 x 30 cm
£ 700
This painting goes some way to explaining my love of the West Coast of Scotland. Clouds scudding across the sky, their shadows racing across the hills, deep blue sea in the Sound of Jura, light emerald shades of the sunlit sandy shallows. Sparkling white surf on the rocks and beach. And a brisk Northerly keeping the midges away.
Ring of Bright Water Study
26 x 36 cm
£ 700
My secret cove, otters and seals for company. A magical place, a Northerly blowing white horses down the Sound.
Jura, evening light.
22 x 34 cm
£ 700
Often at the end of the day, the light rewards those still outside with a dazzling show. This was really only the beginning of the end of the day with the sun reflecting off the sea in a thousand sparkles as it dropped down playing hide and seek among the scudding clouds.
Snow on the tops
70 x 100 cm
£ 1500 instead of £2000
This was a belter of a day in May. Icy Northerly wind, new snow on the Paps of Jura, bright dark water with white horses racing down the Sound. A day seized.
Praa Sands
100 x 100
£ 3000 instead of £3600
Golden beach, emerald sea and cornflower blue skies. Cornwall.
Largo Bay
160 x 240 cm
£ 12000
The largest painting I have ever painted outside. A highlight for me of 2019.
Silverburn
89 x 116 cm
£ 3800
What a joy to paint on this vast expanse of sandy beach that is Largo Bay. Many memories of childhood here.
Evening surf
60 x 60 cm
£ 1400 instead of £1600
Evening Surf, painted on the beach near Wexford with the late afternoon sun lighting up the surf and the incoming weather system. Louise was singing at Wexford Opera Festival. 60x60cm, oil on canvas plein air painting. Can be viewed at the Carina Haslam Gallery
Inverary and Loch Fyne
89 x 116 cm
£ 2500
Painted during Landscape Artist of the Year. Oil on canvas, it was so wet that it should be a watercolour, painted under a parasol ! The iconic Vital Spark puffing away outside the harbour.
Loch Awe, 10pm
24 x 25 cm
£ 400 instead of £700
Painted at the end of a long day's working en plein air at Eredine on Loch Awe in the magical gloaming of the North west summer. Midges held a bay with a large outdoor citonella candle and generous doses of Jungle Juice. Oil on upcycled prepared card. Framed in an off-white bespoke frame under museum glass.
Lough Swilly 2
100 x 150 cm
£ 5000
One of the world's great beaches, Ballymastocker Bay on Lough Swilly, a finger of emerald Atlantic water sparkling into the North coast of Ireland. Painted from the middle lay-by.
Lyme
80 x 80 cm
£ 2400 instead of £2800
Painted January 2016. My first plein air painting since breaking my back in Scotland at the end of August 2015.
Beer Boats
100 x 100 cm
£ 3000
Painted on a sparkling sunny day on the bright shingle beach at Beer in Devon.
Beer
50 x 70 cm
£ 1200 instead of £2000
Beer boats. On a bright sunny day the shingle becomes a dazzling floor to the eye. Mediterranean colours on the Devon coast. Looking forward to coming back here to paint and swim in what can be crystal clear water if you’re lucky. 50x70cm
Blue Boat
80 x 80 cm
£ 2000
Blue boat, against the light. Painted on the beach at Beer on the Devonshire coast. One of my favourite painting spots with its working boats, winches etc nestled on the arc of the beach enclosed by its chalk cliffs. Oil on canvas, 80x80cm #devon #wessex #westcountry #fishingboat #blueboat #boatlife #workingboats #marineart #muddydorsetsomerset #keepingcolourful #pleinairpainting #affordableart #artforsalebyartist #impressionist #howtospendit #lockdownart #lovegreatbritain #myquietbeauty #theconstantlycurious #verilymoment #seekthesimplicity #alittlebeautyeveryday #theslowdowncollective #distractionsandinspirations #searchwandercollect
Slade Harbour
60 x 60
£ 1250 instead of £1600
Slade Harbour. Painted when Louise was singing at Wexford Opera Festival. I love the strong contrasts, the repeated shapes, patterns and reflections of light and shadow. It’s curious that when light is reflected it obscures whereas when darkness is reflected it enables you to see through the surface. Oil on canvas, 60x60cm
Black Rock
120 x 120 cm
£ 3000 instead of £4000
Looking out across the Forth to Edinburgh and the Lothians from Elie, my home from home. On display at Le château de Moiré
