Turnberry Gallery

Turnberry Gallery  in Ayrshire is situated just a few hundred yards from the Turnberry Hotel and world famous golf course off the A77...

Owned and run by Agnes and Barclay Ferguson a warm scottish welcome awaits you as well as many contemporary artworks on display in the gallery including several of my romantic seascape paintings...

Romantic Paintings...Gallery On The Corner...Edinburgh

Just a short post and image showing one of my romantic paintings " Love To Arran" being displayed at the The Gallery On The Corner  Edinburgh...


So if your on the bus going up or down Dundas Street in Edinburgh or just walking past pop in and see the various forms of art being exhibited by many artists...

Art Therapy...Romantic Paintings

Back in the spring a collector purchased one of my romantic oil paintings entitled "Caledonian Love" ...


In a follow up email I asked if she could take a photo of the painting in situ and email it back to me...


She replied that she would try but was having her bedroom redecorated and she had decided to get the deep box canvas painting framed...


Recently I received a photo via email of the painting in situ and an email saying sorry for taking so long to reply this was due to being poorly and that viewing the painting on her bad days took her and her husband to another place far away...


As an artist it's nice to know art can be therapeutic and touches us all in different ways...

Mull Of Galloway Scotland

Mull Of Galloway Lighthouse

It's been a while since I posted here...
Domestic chores (oh and sea fishing) have put my artistic creative processes on hold lately...
Recently Evlar and I needed to escape and we drove down to the peninsula known as the Mull Of Galloway the most southerly tip of Scotland...

Irish Sea Side

Across the Solway Firth To England

Looking east across Luce Bay and the Solway Firth you can see the mountains of the Lake District then turning 180 degrees Ireland across the northen channel of the Irish Sea comes into view...

Across the Irish Sea to Ireland in the distance

Having an interest in sea fishing from many moons ago I was naturally
interested to find out online that this area was known for a large variety of species of fish and anglers make their way here from all over the UK...

Portpatrick

Crown Hotel ...A.A.Awarded Seafood Pub Of Scotland

So after finding some shore fishing marks for the future we headed home but not before taking a small diversion to the harbour at Portpatrick for a hot seafood platter at the Crown Hotel...

This peninsula is so beautiful and reminds me of my home county of East Sussex with rolling hills,grazing sheep and sheer sea cliffs albeit solid rock and not chalk...

Scotland Art....Dunure Harbour

Dunure Harbour Ayrshire Scotland Painting

A few miles down the coast from me here in Ayrshire is the old fishing village of Dunure...

I love to visit there especially out of the tourist season when one can stroll around more freely and take in the atmosphere and imagine times gone by...

This impressionistic painting of the harbour shows the view looking out to the Isle Of Arran across the Firth Of Clyde...

Painted on a 7in x 5in gessoed hardboard using mainly transparent acrylics and varnished for colour enhancement and protection...

Double click the image for larger view...

Example Of Painting Framed...

Sun And Solitude Painting...To Be Exhibited...

" Sun And Solitude "Oil Painting  50cm x 50cm x 3.8cm

"Sun And Solitude" oil painting is now finished and ready  to be exhibited locally at Ayr Hospital from the 28th April as part of a group exhibiton with Ayr Art Circle...

Painted with transparent layers,opaque colours, various tints and glazes then finally a protective light coat of varnish...

Museum sides (white) can be hung as it is or framed...deep box canvases look fantastic framed...

Click on the image for a larger view...

Sun And Solitude Painting.....W.I.P.

This is a work in progress entitled
" Sun & Solitude "...for an upcoming group exhibition here in Ayrshire....painted on a 20in x 20in deep box canvas...a few glazes to go...come on dry faster...waiting...

Scottish Landscape Art

Here this week on the south west coast of Scotland we managed to get away with light snow flurries...fortunately it didn't lay compared to the east coast where there was major disruption together with the north of England as the weather front headed south over the border...

Anyway this impressionistic landscape painting is of Loch Riecawr in the Galloway Forest...I like to play with colour or color depending on where you reside...

Painted on a 7in x 5in hardboard panel in acrylic...gloss varnished for protection and colour enhancement...

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Small impressionistic acrylic scottish landscape painting entitled " Across The Firth " painted on a gessoed 7in x 5in hardboard panel...gloss varnished for protection and colour enhancement...

Glasgow Art Show....mmmm....

Yesterday I headed into Glasgow for a wander round the inaugural Glasgow Art Show at the Thistle Hotel...After attending last years Edinburgh Art Fair in november I was interested to see if galleries on this circuit were displaying fresh artworks from the artists they represent...



After meandering my way through the corridors I finally came across the entrance to the show...I always feel sorry for those exhibitors who have paid their fee to find they are in the corner by the entrance..luck of the draw I guess...

Wandering round it soon became apparent I was viewing occasional works I had seen in Edinburgh from some of the attending galleries...polymer resin coated abstracts,opal dust encrusted paintings that change colour dependent on your angle of view to name a few...

I like to get up close and look at the brushwork etc of certain pieces...on an occasion yesterday an over zealous gallery member of staff/owner enquired within a minute if I was interested in the artists work and would I like to purchase one as he had six on display...I replied I was just browsing at the moment thank you and slowly withdrew...

I guess the format gets predictable but it must work for the organisers and for the galleries as paintings were being wrapped...and as I overheard one member of public say to gallery staff "art is subjective isn't it"...

My favourite booth was " Other Points Of View " which consisted of 5 artists attending as a collective...

I got chatting to one David Brightmore after being drawn to and admiring his vibrant acrylic and ink figure-scape paintings...the collective consisted of 5 guys who went to uni in Sheffield back in the 60's...David's work can be viewed here...

After chatting about the current environment of the art market business with the guy on the Ginny Gray stand the words "peaks and troughs" were confirmed...

Much like other businesses in these economic times I suppose...