Earth - Contemporary landscape art

Earth - Landscapes

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LAI - Landscape Artists International

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Cloud and sky painting in oil - Cloud Composition 3

Dimming of the Day - Sunset

Moonlight Oil Sketch

Dawn colour study

After the Greatest Clouds


	Contemporary Landscape Art


	My aim in landscape art has always been to emphasis the major elements of land, water, sunlight and sky, and to explore the interaction between them in art. The growing awareness of the environment as a fragile entity has only reinforced my desire to paint it.


	On the Tay - Inchyra 20x24ins. Oil on Canvas £850


	Haliburton Hill Oil on Canvas 50x60cms. (app.20x24ins”) £750


	Most paintings have details on the methods used and on the background to each landscape oil painting. Click the image

	Three oil studies from the road between Newburgh and Newport in Fife, Scotland, looking down upon the River Tay. I often concentrate on a single landscape area like this for a time.

	Field and Sky Study - Angus 10x12ins. Available - £175


	Contemporary Landscape Art - Oil painting techniques


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			Mugdrum Island and Newburgh 20x24ins. £850


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	Broughty Ferry Castle 24x26ins. Private Collection




	“If” 36x30ins. Private Collection


		I have an interest in applying traditional oil painting techniques to contemporary landscape painting. Like learning a language, learning the craft of painting landscape (at best) makes it easier to communicate ideas and emotion within the work.

	Angus Landscape and Sky 24x26ins. Private Collection


	Falls at Reekie Linn 24x30ins. Private Collection




	The Wishing Tree 24x26ins. Commission




Scotscraig Breaker 16x18ins Private Collection

		I try to suggest the presence of people or to imply the presence of the observer in all my “uninhabited” landscapes. Sometimes though, there is a case for painting the human figure directly into the scene.

	Glasgow Commission 30x36ins Private Collection


	Water - Contemporary Seascape Paintings

	Paintings of Water. Most people are really drawn to water. It is a major element in any landscape, and in a landscape painting, whether it’s an expanse of sea from a clifftop or the dark depths of a millpond,

	Cockburnspath 36x48ins. Private Collection


	In landscape paintings, water provides the artist with a great compositional tool as it reflects and merges land and sky features together. In addition, when water moves it creates its own highlights like the pure white of a waterfall in sunlight or the foam in a wave


	Paintings of Trees

		Trees have a tremendous presence in the landscape. Some individual trees seem to have human characteristics and painting them is more like painting a portrait. Collectively, in woods or in a forest, trees have an massive effect on the perceived mood within a landscape.

		Pines 10x12ins Sold








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				Paintings of Rivers

			Falls at Killin 20x24ins Private Collection

	Paintings of Mountains

		Mountains have to be the most dominant feature in the landscape and in landscape art they appear with iconic status again and again. It’s impossible not to be drawn to their sheer presence.

	Mountain and Cloud 16x18ins. Private Collection