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PAI 126th Annual Exhibition This year is only the second time I have shown work at the Paisley Art Institute. The last time was 2003 with a painting called ‘Dressed in Black’ pictured on the right. People and figures used to feature a lot in my work before I became involved in atmospheric semi-abstraction. This year I was showing 2 …
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 paper floated into a black frame. They hang at each entrance of the side by side doors at the Morblas seafood and Grill restaurant. The …
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 all of them. That’s what can happen at a fair that sees over 20 000 visitors through it’s doors during the 5 days it’s open. …
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 Herald was round to take pictures of me out in the sunshine with the my kids Arran and Sophie. Check out the article in the …
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 philosophical genius in order to camouflage the insignificance of the poorly executed end product. Glasgow’s current trend for the conceptual has risen it’s profile within …
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 for Anodized aluminium suppliers. It wasn’t until recently when my online supplier of art materials offered DiBond Aluminium as a painting surface. So I ordered 4 …
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 inspiration from the forbidding beauty of Scotland’s stormy skies. Uist Shore by Scott Naismith Although Scott Naismith studied illustration and printmaking at Duncan of …
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 one of the lucky ones. The contemporary Scottish landscape artist lists fellow Scot Peter Howson as being significant amongst his influences. Although there is a stark contrast between …
