Original Watercolours

Towards Ben Talla is a watercolour with accentuated field patterns based on a sketch from a viewpoint en route from Tobermory to Dervaig some years ago. The remote buildings act as focal points as [...]

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 [...]

Landscape With Farm - Iona is a watercolour with accentuated field patterns which serve to lead the eye to the lone farm on the horizon. The farm building is simply treated to compliment and contrast [...]

Harvest Moon over Duart Castle is an original watercolour developed from some of my sketchbook studies whilst visiting Duart Castle, the ancestral home of Clan MacLean. The low horizon allows the [...]

Gruline House. The buildings of Gruline House and Macquarie House on the Isle of Mull are simply treated in order to contrast with the textured surrounding moonlit landscape. The view is taken [...]

After Harvest Autumnal colours capture this original watercolour painting of a Pennine farm scene. The textures and treatment of the watercolour evoke rough ploughed fields.

An original watercolour painting of Mull developed from a sketch drawing. Fraoch is gaelic for heather, this cottage has been painted using a selection of greens and blues to give a soft landscape [...]

Ben More Golden Light - Variation. The soft, golden landscape contrasts with the dark, moonlit sky in this original watercolour interpretation of the Ben More landscape with its isolated farm [...]

Sunset Over Inch Kenneth from Clachandhu Beach is an original watercolour culminating from sketches of the view to Inch Kenneth from the west coast beach on the Isle of Mull and the sky changing into [...]