More hills

 Beyond Strathearn,  24" x 48" oil on board 2012

 Winter Afternoon (Little Glenshee) 6.5" x 8.5" oil on board 2012

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Over Strathearn

 Over Strathearn  24" x 24" oil on board 2012

 East Lomond 14" x 4.5" oil on board 2012

 Two more new pieces. Both these paintings look across Strathearn from the southern face of the highland foothills, on or just above the Highland Boundary Fault. The top one is from around Little Glenshee and the lower one is from the Logiealmond area.

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3 for the show

Late Afternoon (Little Glenshee), 32" x 48" oil on board, 2012

 Highlands, 6.5" x 16" oil on board, 2012

 Midwinter, 24" x 32" oil on board, 2012

Three paintings that will be going to The Ruthven Gallery as part of my forthcoming solo exhibition there.

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 Stubble Field/Red Earth, oil on board, 32" x 48" 2012

 Winter Gloaming (Monzie), oil on board, 24" x 36" 2012

 

East Lomond, oil on gessoed paper, 13" x 9" 2012

Three new works. The top one I began many months ago and finally finished last week. It shows farmland on the east side of Perth, near Stormontfield, looking west to the highland hills. The middle one studies the tricky half light of a late afternoon in midwinter above Crieff, on the Highland Boundary Fault line. 'East Lomond' is a sketchy oil on paper looking towards Fife from the hill face across the glen from my house.

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Faulty work

To the South, January, Oil on Board, 24" x 33" 2012

This painting is part of my new Highland Boundary Fault series. Here we are looking across Strathearn towards the Ochil hills from the Little Glenshee area. This viewpoint is on the fault zone.

Here, above and below, are details of another painting I'm working on. It is nearly finished and shows a scene around Monzie, above Crieff, approaching dusk on a January afternoon. Again, it a work which stands upon the HBF line. In the whole painting you see a transition between the high and low lands, with the snowline emphasizing the contrast.

 I have been using a lot of damar varnish in my recent work which has been encouraging me to play about some more with these multiple layers of thin paint glazes. Some of the other pieces I'm working on are nightfall paintings, with darkness built up from successive layers. They work quite well but are practically impossible to photograph, being both very dark and rather glossy.

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New work: Highland Boundary Fault

 Five new paintings, oil on gesso on paper. Each one is looking at an aspect of the Highland Boundary Fault. The deliniation between highland and lowland is an element that has been edging into my landscapes for some time now as much of my work is centred on an area which sits more or less right upon the fault line. The new work looks either north towards the Highland region or south away from it, across Strathearn. At the moment the Highland side is emphasised by the snowline, as seen above.

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Timber