New Paintings by Gillian Pattinson

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Where the Otter Plays, Barra, acrylic 33x70cms Blackthorn Before Carningli, acrylic 26x56cms White rain, acrylic 23.5x41cms Net Drying pole, acrylic 20x41cms
Wolfs Castle, mixed media 64x36cms Gillian attended the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting in London, intending to study calligraphy but marriage and four children intervened.

Moving to Wester Ross in 1986 Gillian found this stunning scenery was overwhelmingly compelling, “I had to paint, and in order to learn to paint “my scenery” I started the North West Highlands Art courses, at our home in Kishorn.” These have attracted tutors of international renown and students from all over the world, many returning again and again.		 Air, Land and Water, felt picture 33x34cms
 Abandoned, Lonbain, mixed media 47x43cms Green Sunlight, mixed media 44x54cms
Oystercatchers, 24x38cms Trwyn Llwd, Wild Wind Screaming Gulls, mixed media  59x64cms  Tide and Wind Rising, Abermawr, 49x42cms Puffins, 22x36cms
Where the Stream Divides River Cledau, mixed media 52x59cms

Gillian works in a variety of media and techniques including watercolour, acrylic and collage and mixed media. Gillian finds mixed media the most exciting way to express the emotions that the Highland scenery evokes.

Living beside the sea with hills rising to almost 3000 feet on the other side of the loch there is a never ending challenge and source of inspiration.

Listening to Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain, mixed media 59x68cms
Snow Storm Over Sgurr na Chaoraichan, acrylic 42.5x57cms Ocean Turmoil, 53x59cms Red Autumn, felt picture 33x34cms  Bealach na Ba, felt picture 38x33cms
Flowing on to the Loch, mixed media 52x74cms Walking the hills and sea shore in all weathers, Gillian prefers to paint on site, even carrying waterproof paper with her. Gillian works fast often tearing away or adding paper, trying to capture the changing moments, the strength, grandeur and excitement of this amazing landscape.

Gillian is a regular exhibitor at the Tore Art Gallery, the Inchmore Gallery, the Morvern Gallery on Lewis, and the  Carron Gallery. Gillian has also exhibited at the Hanover Gallery, Edinburgh, the Mall Gallery, the Lennox Gallery, and the Affordable Art show in London, and the Barn Gallery and the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power in Cheshire. When no art courses are taking place Gillian exhibits in the teaching studio at her home, Brynaport.		 Lochan on the Limestone Heights, mixed media 33x77cms
Balgy Falls in Spate, mixed media 52x76cms Old Shieling by Loch Muabhat, 34x47cms
Cockle Pickers at Luskintyre, 39x74cms Pwll Bay, Sitting on the Cliff's Edge, mixed media 41.5x66cms Oh, Magnum Mysterium, mixed media  31x54cms  
    
  

 

 
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