Recently my paintings ‘The 3 sisters of Glencoe’ and ‘Arran Sky’ were installed as prints in the Morblas restaurant at Hilton, Glasgow. The prints are a pretty big 144 x 124cm image size with …
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London 2013
8 years ago was the last time I exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. That year EAStudios in Broughty Ferry took 9 of my 3ft square original acrylic paintings down and sold out …
My Virgin Money Cash ISA in the Herald
SAVING FOR A RAINY DAY! MY CHOICE OF CASH ISA Picture courtesy of James Galloway Herald and Times Group Well the heat wave here in the UK has been great and the photographer from the …
Art Speak: Arty Nonsense Exposed
Over Flowery Artists’ Statements I despair when I see pretentious, meaningless, tongue twisting nonsense spoken in some artists’ statements. The culprits are mainly the conceptual artists who need to bamboozle you with an attempt at …
Oil painting Methods and Techniques: Oil on Aluminium
My Findings with Applying Oil Directly onto Aluminium DiBond For over a year now I have been looking to try out Aluminium as an oil painting surface. I looked for suppliers a few months back …
Homes and Interiors Magazine Article
Homes and Interiors Magazine Scottish Paintings Feature This article was released in August 2012. Here’s the text: Two of A kind Like legions of artists over the years, these two painters have drawn …
Homes Plus Magazine article from 2008
Back in 2008, This article was written in ‘Homes Plus’ magazine by Maria Brett: Most children have people they look up to, but few end up on a par with their idol. Scott Naismith is …
Armadale Sky: Feedback from a Client
The lovely Claire from Fotheringham Gallery ( @fothgall ) in Bridge of Allan, Stirling e-mailed me this morning with some feedback from the new owners of this 60 x 60cm painting, ‘Armadale Sky’. Here’s what …
Artist A Day Feature
BLOG FEATURE Recently I was featured on the fantastic artistaday.com site. These days getting featured on a good blog results in better exposure than a National newspaper. Artistaday.com has a twitter following of over 11k however …
40 x 40cm Barra Crofts SOLD
This Painting is SOLD and currently hangs in a collection in Sydney, Australia. This painting depicts an area around Brevig on the Isle of Barra. I tend not to rely on my photographs too …