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THE "ALDEBARAN" 15 Apr 2013 | 12:20 am
Here's the "Aldebaran", a wooden-built Danish trawler, tramping along in fresh weather east of Sumburgh Head. She, and hundreds of others like her, used to fish around Shetland in the late 1960s and ...
CAT AND DOG 25 Feb 2013 | 01:03 am
My creative visits to this blog have beeen so few and seldom over the past year that it scarcely merits the description. I could roll out such excuses as feeling out of sorts and experiencing compute...
THE "ST. NINIAN" 25 Feb 2013 | 12:42 am
This is the second painting that I've done with a print edition in mind, prompted by requests from visitors to my Toll Clock Centre stalls (the first being the "Swan" at the back end of last year). T...
THE "PILOT US" 24 Feb 2013 | 09:54 pm
This commissioned painting shows the 40ft seine-netter "Pilot Us" (LK271) coming in past the Bressay Lighthouse on a fine summer's evening. This boat, built in 1931 at Fraserburgh, is now owned by Sh...
"ST. GILES" (II) IN ST MAGNUS BAY 5 Dec 2012 | 04:17 pm
This painting has been a long time in the making, having stood half-finished, since early summer, in a corner of my studio, while I got on with more urgent tasks. Having "cleared my feet" of commissi...
THE "SWAN" 18 Nov 2012 | 08:51 pm
My latest painting shows Shetland's own tall ship heading southwards, with an easterly breeze in her sails. This is the first time I've done a "portrait" of the old lady for a while, although she app...
A HAUL OF HERRING AND A PILOT BOAT 4 Nov 2012 | 04:30 pm
I anticipate no gasps of utter astonishment when I reveal that the latest works to appear in the Tait Gallery are both seascapes. They were both commissioned. One of them is the third in a series fe...
CONZIE CASTLE 30 Sep 2012 | 05:35 pm
The weather was fair as we sped south towards Huntly that evening in late June of 2009. The colours were magnificent, as low cloud, driven by a southerly breeze, sometimes partly obscured the sun, cr...
THE BRESSAY LIGHT 23 Sep 2012 | 06:48 pm
I wonder just how often I've painted pictures of the Bressay lighthouse over the years. It must be of the order of a hundred times, considering the different viewpoints, and it was nearly always as a...
L'ENNUI AND KEITH RICHARDS 9 Sep 2012 | 08:03 pm
I know I shouldn't , but I'm so bored that I've decided to upload this JPEG of my painting of the rock legend, and to heck with the consequences! A friend of mine commissioned the work, and I'm profi...
