Although we are Scottish Highlanders by choice rather than by birth, my wife Delia and I have for many years been eager visitors to Wester-Ross, and 8 years ago we finally re-located to this lovely part of the world. We have always been in thrall to its ancient, ice-ground, heather tangled hills, its great sea and freshwater lochs, its myriad spangle of rarely visited lochans, its burns and rivers tumbling down to meet the rugged, ragged coast of north west Scotland.
The light on Wester-Ross' land and sea - especially at the beginning and the ending of each day - is often a true artist's valhalla. Even the not infrequent rains cast their own kind of magic on the land and seascapes.
All the pictures featured here are painted in pastels - the purest of all media to match the Western Highlands of Scotland - and often with a pen and ink underlay.. The resultant artworks are not intended as photographic representations but hopefully they do bring together the fundamental 'life' of the subjects.
The composing and then the execution of the painting will suggest a theme for the verse that I invariably compose whilst painting my pictures.
Hope you enjoy my works as much as I enjoyed creating them.
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