Original Watercolours

Duart Castle - Blue Twilight is an original watercolour developed from my sketchbook studies whilst visiting Duart Castle, the ancestral home of Clan MacLean. The low horizon allows the textured sky [...]

Duart Castle is an original watercolour developed from my sketchbook studies whilst visiting Duart Castle, the ancestral home of Clan MacLean. The high horizon allows the textured seascape to play a [...]

A watercolour depicting a solitary farmhouse on a hillside, overlooking a lake with distant mountains. The foreground has a textured underpainting and the path guides the viewer's eye up into the [...]

Duart Castle - Receding Storm is an original watercolour developed from my sketchbook entries whilst visiting Duart Castle, the ancestral home of Clan MacLean. The high horizon allows the textured [...]

Erray Lighthouse - Dusk. A striking landscape largely in blues and greys are the main feature in this original watercolour interpretation of Erray Lighthouse on the Isle of Mull with an approaching [...]

Duart Castle is an original watercolour developed from my sketchbook studies whilst visiting Duart Castle, the ancestral home of Clan MacLean. The limited colour palette used and the soft evening [...]

Moonlit Abbey - Iona. The abbey buildings are simply treated in order to contrast with the textured surrounding landscape of mellow warm and cool colours, painted over a surface texture. The view [...]

Fishermen's Cottages - Portnahaven. An original watercolour painting depicting two of the whitewashed cottages once used by fishermen in the now quiet harbour of Portnahaven on Islay. My family and [...]

Ben More - Winter Moon. Ardvergnish Farmhouse at Pennyghael on the Isle of Mull is simply treated in order to contrast with the textured surrounding landscape, using only three colours; Payne's Grey, [...]