50cm Opening Original Landscape/ seascape/ cloudscape/ skyscape/ oil painting SOLD
120 x 60cm Forth Bridge Dawn SOLD
120 x 60cm Forth Bridge Dawn original oil painting on canvas. £2500 SOLD Contact me for purchase enquiry The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth just north of Edinburgh on the east of Scotland. It’s imposing, strong structure too 7 years to build costing 98 men their lives. It used 10 times as …
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 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 …
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 they had to say: “We received the painting on Monday morning and were pleased that it was so well packed. It is now on our …
40 x 40cm Self Portrait, Into The Light SOLD
I occasionally produce self portraits which hint at the themes within my current landscape paintings. This particular portrait is produced with the subject looking directly into the light to convey the themes of looking into the sun with backlit clouds. Oil on canvas 40 x 40cm Available £850 SOLD https://youtu.be/DWt7711uCoM
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 much, however sometimes my photo references are essential in getting the details of any recognizable structures or places. Often I will combine information from …
SOLD 100 x 100cm Skye Crofts
This 1 metre square painting of the Isle of skye is inspired by the island’s north western tip. SOLD The painting can be seen being picked up at the framer and being photographed in the following youtube video:
Big Cartel Shop
I recently blogged about my new miniature oil on board paintings. Now, I am happy to say that I now have an online store available from my website powered by the artists’ online store ‘Big Cartel’. Here’s the link: ONLINE STORE At any time there will be a selection of unframed oil on board paintings available exclusively from the studio. …
Paisley Artists Live Demonstration
Here’s the video showing my Demo from March and subsequent completion in the studio of ‘Light Emerges, Tiree’. This was my second demo at Paisley artists. A fair amount of the talk and explanations are here. It was quite busy so the camera had to be a fair distance away… forgot to zoom in closer before starting though! [embedplusvideo height=”350″ …
Small Oil Painting Studies on Board
 Recently I’ve been working on small oil studies. I have previously worked on work like this in sketchbooks, but thought it might be nice to offer these for sale on a more durable acid free conservation grade board. These studies are really idea generators which can be painted in situ, en plein air. My work receives a lot of …