Scottish artists inspired by the SEA
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Helen DenerleyRockfish26.5cm (h) x 16cm x 67cm
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James Newton AdamsIn the Company of Birdsacrylic on canvas87cm x 87cmSold
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James Newton AdamsBuilt from Guirdersacrylic on canvas97cm x 97cm
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James Newton AdamsA Pocket of Fishacrylic on canvas97cm x 97cmSold
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James Newton AdamsAs I was going to St Ivesacrylic on canvas96cm x 86cmSold
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James Newton AdamsHands of Codacrylic on canvas87cm x 87cmSold
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Joyce W CairnsMesserschmitt over Footdeeoil on ply152cm x 122cm
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Joyce W CairnsFarewell to Footdeeoil on panel122cm x 183cm
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Peter DavisThe Turning of the Tidewatercolour on paper50cm x 70cm
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Peter DavisThe Coast of Eshanesswatercolour on paper50cm x 70cmSold
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Peter DavisPapa Stackswatercolour on paper60cm x 94cmSold
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Peter DavisHildasay, Floatingwatercolour on paper50cm x 70cm
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Peter DavisErne's Stackwatercolour on paper50cm x 70cm
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Peter DavisEdge of the Stormwatercolour and pigment50cm x 70cm
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Peter DavisDa Bankswatercolour and chalk on paper50cm x 70cm
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Steve DilworthDeep Water, 2016Harris stone, seabed water and whale bone10cm high x 17cm x 12.5cmSold
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Steve Dilworththrowing object, 2015burr elm, wren and bronze12cm high x 13cm x 14cmSold
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Steve DilworthWave, 2016Harris stone18cm high x 20cm x 9cmSold
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Steve DilworthCalm Water Chamber, 2016Harris Stone, gold leaf, sterling silver and calm-water10cm high x 16cm x 10.5cmSold
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Steve DilworthDeep Water Stone, 2016Harris stone, beach stone, copper, seabed water11cm high x 20cm x 18cm
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Steve DilworthSeal Oil Stone, 2016Harris stone, beach stone, copper, seabed water11cm high x 20cm x 18cmSold
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Kate Downie RSAThe America Shipacrylic and ink on canvas167cm x 160cm
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Kate Downie RSAFerkingstadmonotype on Japanese paper30cm x 40cm
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Kate Downie RSACatterline Dawn IImonotype on Japanese paper30cm x 40cm
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Kate Downie RSAThe Asphalt Sea, 2007Norwegian exterior house paint, acrylic and pastel on paper67cm x 100cm
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Kate Downie RSACatterline Dawn Imonotype on Japanese paper55cm x 65cm
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Kate Downie RSACatterline Baywatercolour56cm x 76cmSold
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Gail HarveyBreaking Waveoil on canvas110cm x 210cm
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Janette KerrLow Tide - Dark Day, 2016oil on canvas70cm x 141cm
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Janette KerrTwisting and Turningoil on board57.5cm x 57.5cm
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Allan MacDonaldgreat north headlandoil on canvas40cm x 152cm
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Allan MacDonald, sea cliff 2
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Allan MacDonaldon the edge, Eshenessoil on board54cm x 88cm
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Allan MacDonaldstorm before the calmoil on canvas50.5cm x 76cm
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Sian MacQueen rswEarly Passage, Juraacrylic on gesso28cm x 23cm£ 650.00
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Sian MacQueen rswIsland Markeracrylic on gesso46cm x 41cm
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Sian MacQueen rswWaiting Roomacrylic on gesso38cm x 36cmSold
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Sian MacQueen rswJura Journeyacrylic on gesso48cm x 46cm
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Illona MorriceBreaking Waveserpentine10cm x 25cm x 23cmSold
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Illona MorriceSea ShellceramicSold
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Illona MorriceSeascapeceramic27cm x 67cmSold
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Illona MorriceSummer Grazingceramic40cm x 84cm x 35cm
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Illona MorriceTales of the Deepceramic44cm x 50cm x 28cmSold
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Illona MorriceWhite Horsesceramic21cm x 36cm x 26cmSold
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Lynn McGregor RSWPoints of Lightacrylic56cm x 68cm
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Lynn McGregor RSWWest Coast Sea Grassesacrylic58cm x 58cm
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Lynn McGregor RSWTidal Reachacrylic61cm x 61cm
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Lynn McGregor RSWSun over Wateracrylic61cm x 61cm
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Lynn McGregor RSWSummer Islandsacrylic61cm x 61cm
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Will MacleanWinter North Atlanticpainted wood and resin124cm x 105cm x 5cm
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Kate Downie RSADusk Fisherman, Bichenomonotype on japanese paper on birch panel32cm x 22cm£ 600.00
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Will MacleanVoyage of the James Caird (1) Elephant Islandpainted wood and resin82cm x 72cm
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Beth Robertson FiddesSpring Tide Sandwood Baymixed media92cm x 122cm
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Beth Robertson FiddesOver the Rocks Clashnessiemixed media92cm x 122cmSold
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Beth Robertson FiddesSpring Tidemixed media92cm x 99cm
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Janette KerrBlack Head of Breigeooil on canvas80cm x 90cmSold
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Janette KerrThat Moment whenoil on canvas90cm x 100cmSold
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Marian Leven RSA RSWWater Marksacrylic on canvas122cm x 122cm
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Mary BourneOne Cloud over Seaink wash on paper
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Mary BourneRain Showers over Seaink wash on paper
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Mary BourneShore Islate20cm x 61cm
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Mary BourneShore IIslate40cm x 61cm
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Mary BourneSea BossLedmore marble12cm x 12cm
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Mary BourneBeach I, 2012sandstone and palladium leaf30cm x 30cm
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Mary BourneBeach II, 2012sandstone and palladium leaf30cm x 30cm
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Mary BourneBeach III, 2012sandstone and palladium leaf30cm x 30cm
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Ruth BrownleeFleeting Light over the North Seamixed media41cm x 55cmSold
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Ruth BrownleeEvening Twilight on Quendale Beachmixed media39cm x 47cmSold
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Ruth BrownleeBoiling Seas off Nonessmixed media42cm x 49cmSold
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Mary BourneCloud Mass over Seaink wash on paper
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Mary BourneStorm over Seaink wash on paper
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Mary BourneRed Cloud over Sea, 2016ink wash on paper
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Lotte GlobOld Kelp, 2016ceramic55cm high x 23cm x 23cm
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Lotte GlobRock Flowerceramic31cm high x 41cm x 23cmSold
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Lotte GlobSecret Poolceramic20cm high x 24cm x 24cmSold
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Lotte GlobSeascape - tidalceramic
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Lotte GlobSeascape - stormy seaceramic36cm x 36cmSold
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Lotte GlobSeascapeceramic
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Lotte GlobReef, 2016ceramic37cm x 40cm
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Illona MorriceOctopusceramic50cm x 60cm
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Mary BourneTwo Clouds over Seaink wash on paper
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Allan MacDonaldform and void, Beauly Firthoil on board20cm x 25cm
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Allan MacDonaldmaelstrom, Eshanessoil on board24cm x 31cm
Scottish artists have always been drawn to the sea, pulled along by instinct, like salmon, to the coast. It was a powerful draw to twentieth century artists – Eardley, Houston and Bellany - and it is equally powerful now. Kilmorack Gallery’s exhibition ‘SEA’ looks at its influence on Scottish artists in 2016 and includes work from James Newton Adams, Mary Bourne, Ruth Brownlee, Joyce W Cairns, Helen Denerley, Steve Dilworth, Kate Downie, Lotte Glob, Gail Harvey, Janette Kerr, Marian Leven, Sian MacQueen, Allan MacDonald, Lynn McGregor, Illona Morrice, Beth Robertson-Fiddes and Will Maclean.
Scottish artists have always been drawn to the sea, pulled along by instinct, like salmon, to the coast. It was a powerful draw to twentieth century artists - Eardley, Houston and Bellany - and it is equally powerful now. Kilmorack Gallery's exhibition 'the SEA' looks at its influence on Scottish artists in 2016 and includes work from Will MacLean, Helen Denerley, Janette Kerr and Lotte Glob.
The sea is not just a powerful force, a sublime monster worthy of Turner, but it is a giver of wealth, knowledge and industry. These gifts invariably come at a cost. Hard and dangerous work, a salty-friction, toughens the bond between man and sea. This is the inspiration for WILL MACLEAN's work. He uses found objects within his constructed sculpture to conjure feelings not just about our times but of what has been lost… as there is to the sea, always.
JAMES NEWTON ADAMS, lives on the remote Elgol peninsula on Skye, where he paints and sculpts islanders working and living from the Atlantic. His work is faux-naïve in style but adult in knowledge. In his paintings an old wisdom-of-the-sea colours dream-like characters that inhabit a hard but real world. JOYCE W CAIRNS is a significant artist who also paints the maritime world, but with her own highly developed language and unsurpassed compositions.
The sea is a place of myth. From it, a seal can emerge from the water, remove its skin and become a woman. Giant leviathans rise and Davy Jones waits. To LOTTE GLOB it is a place of sea-creatures and cliff-birds, a secret world only seen by those who look with youthful eyes. To KATE LEIPER the sea is a place of stories. Imagination is at its most free: Poseidon is a walrus and seals really do turn into women.
To the Sculptor STEVE DILWORTH the sea is a place of unknown depth and geological time. Our existence, humankind's existence, is just a flash and the sea is unfathomable. Dilworth uses the materials he finds around the shore to make work that contextualises our lives by placing it within this deep oceanic-time.
More than anything the sea is energy: abstract and real, quiet and violent, instant and slow. These are qualities that work well on canvas. JANETTE KERR and GAIL HARVEY paint from the Shetland Isles, a place where you are surrounded by stormy water. It is everywhere, in the salty air and the seaweed-splattered windows of Shetland's treeless houses. So much latent energy shocks the newly arrived, but provides endless fascination to the isle's artists and an inspiration for canvases that are as large, and brilliant as can be found anywhere. The power of the sea is also challenge to ALLAN MACDONALD. In 'Rock of Ages' the sea wrestles with a giant stack. Ultimately, even the stack will wear down.
Sometimes the sea rests producing reflections and new patterns, a quietening. Its character changes from random and angry to something more geometric, reflective and benign, a new world of quiet sublime. PETER DAVIS captures this perfectly with his stunningly original watercolours, as does LYNN MACGREGOR with her abstracted west coast landscapes.
Kilmorack Gallery's exhibition 'the Sea' runs from 10th September to the 31st October 2016.