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Discussion of the removal of paint, physical memories, radio sounds after dark and reconstructing a place in paint that is always fading out like the end of a song. #timeandmemory #artandtime #artandmemory #paintinglayers #painting #mapsandmemories @graystonegallery
Music credit: Asher Fulero

20.11.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2 paintings in progress in the garden outside the studio this summer. Both sold this week at Green Gallery. Last day of show today. All available on the gallery website! #lastday #exhibition #expressivepainting #landscapeandmemory #paintingexperience #originalart

12.10.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I think my palette is becoming autumnal already! 1 of 8 paintings at Green Gallery in a 6 person show with Stuart Buchanan, Dorothy Black, Marion Thompson, Morag Young and Nichol Wheatley in the upstairs gallery alongside the Lex McFadyen solo. Preview this Sun 21 September 2-5. #groupexhibition

19.09.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today in the studio, the work responding to the blustery weather outside. Weather warning for wind. Autumn has suddenly arrived and my paintings tell their own story. #todayinthestudio #weatherpaintings #weatherwarning #somethingintheair #autumnsea #sunday

14.09.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some of the paintings I will be exhibiting soon at Green Gallery in Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire. Beautifully framed @FarndonFrames. This summer’s sunshine has been great but the changeability of the Scottish weather continues to inspire me. #scottishweather #coastalart #latesummer

10.09.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I know what you mean.

03.09.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One of a collection of eight paintings responding to a long summer of dramatic weather conditions. All heading to Green Gallery for a group show in September. Details to follow @greengallerylifestyle and here. #sunshineandshowers #weatherart #weatherpaintings #seapaintings #coastalart

03.09.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have really appreciated all the positive feedback since posting a detail of this drawing so I thought I would share the whole image. #drawingwithcolor #drawingincolour #landscapedrawing #drawing #hillside #fields

03.09.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My painting Borderland explores a place where garden meets a fallow field. I am very pleased that it will be part of someone’s home thanks to Alan at Fidra Fine Art who included it along with other paintings of mine in their Summer Exhibition. #warmyellows #umbers #fallowfield #artcollector

03.09.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Listening to the Waves, one of my Sandend paintings just found a new home with a lovely couple who popped in to see the Summer Exhibition @fidrafineart. Three of my four paintings found homes in the past week. Fidra Fine Art is such a welcoming place to find work you can live with. #artcollecting

03.09.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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January on a Border Farm might seem an unusual choice for the time of year but when it sold yesterday @strathearngallery in Crieff it made me remember the beauty of winter and how poignant the structure of trees in winter can be. Love Brueghel’s paintings of the four seasons. #artforthehome #creiff

03.09.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Storm, Cythera was completed during my artists residency at Wrexham University. It was a piece that provoked much discussion during the residency. Very much a conversation with Watteau #storm #watteau

03.09.2025 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Sarah at The Russell Gallery, in Putney sent me this lovely picture of my painting β€œBehold the Sea” in their Summer Exhibition. Always lovely to show work at The Russell Gallery. #londongallery #artlondon #londoninteriors #putney #seascapes

03.09.2025 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nice to see this painting go off from Edinburgh to America from the festival show @graystonegallery, especially as it’s my first sale with the gallery in my first show with them. So good to know someone wants to live with your work! #edinburghfestival #artedinburgh#banffshire

03.09.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now completed and showing at Fidra Fine Art.

05.08.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just sitting in the garden painting the flowers and the washing. It’s easy to fall into an impressionist frame of mind on a summer’s day like this. And why not? #impressionism #garden #satie #artinthegarden #smallpaintings @thelemondgallery

10.07.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A closer look at Seeing and Remembering. Low tide, summer haze, shifting light and perceptions, mixing with memory as you try to match what’s seen to what’s remembered. Never reconciled, they coexist, as suggestions and counter suggestions in paint that might equate to an experience of place.

17.06.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seeing and Remembering (working title), 100x120cm canvas, just completed. #artcollecting #painting #contemporarypainting #summerexhibitions #artinlondon #artinglasgow #artinedinburgh #modernbritishart #artforinteriors #scottishpainter #scottish

16.06.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Of course I’m biased but definitely well worth a visit!

31.05.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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29.05.2025 07:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This morning in the residency studio Behold the Sea, framed and ready to go to The Russell Gallery in London. #londongallery #putney #russellgallerylondon #contemporaryartgallery #contemporarybritishpainting #scottishartist #artistinresidence #visitingprofessor @wrexhamuni

22.05.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opening this weekend...

Dominique Cameron RSW
Waterland
17 May to 22 June

Pictured:
Hithe
Oil on Wood Panel
25x2cm

#dominiquecameron #waterland

12.05.2025 07:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two facets of the same ambition in my painting. Knowing what I want to do in painting is easy, translating that into actual paintings is unbelievably hard. But knowing what I want is the bit I’m most grateful for. #contemporarylandscapepainting #modernscottishart #lanscapepaintingnow #coastalart

12.05.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Through the light and sea spray the cement factory suddenly became a cathedral. Painting at Barns Ness on the east coast of Scotland near Dunbar. #paintingthesea #impressionistic #trickofthelight #seascapeart #artcommunity #artcollector #scottishartist #exhibitionart

09.05.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Painted flowers for a Spring day. Happy bank holiday Monday! #contemporaryart #contemporaryflowerpainting #flowersinart #contemporaryfloralart #scottishcontemporarypainting #artforinteriors #exhibitions #exhibitionslondon #edinburghexhibitions #glasgowexhibitions

05.05.2025 07:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep, all good, must pop in next time I’m up!

03.05.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œStorm, Cythera” refers to the painting by Watteau. The gallant day trippers fled as a storm approached, and now only we are left. My association with the Watteau came through the act of painting. No direct image reference, just a place I wanted to go in paint. #artresidency

03.05.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Across a bay distant buildings become a mirage, floating in the diffracted sea spray haze, visual impressions overwritten by shifting, alternating memories and perceptions. Places we never quite reach. #contemporaryart #artistsresidency @wrexham_school_of_art #paintingsdaily #scottishartist

02.05.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s a painting of a place that will be lost in the mists of time. And yet it will always be a place as a painting. Made in a rainstorm under a tarpaulin, Rainstorm and Wildflowers has found a new home. Thanks to The Biscuit Factory #newcastle #sold #enpleinair #paintscotland #britishcontemporaryart

26.04.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Call of the Land, Song of the Sea, Acrylic on Canvas 20x30cm will be at Whitehouse Gallery in β€œScotland’s artist’s town” Kirkcudbright. β€˜Beyond The Canvas’ runs from Saturday 26th April to Saturday 21st June 2025 #kirkcudbright #artiststown #beyondthecanvas #exhibition #scottishartgallery #celf

25.03.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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