Dramatic Fife

Added on 26 February 2015

Winter Tree West Lingo, Acrylic on Paper Copyright 2014 Alan Watson b.1957 St Andrews All Rights Reserved. My earliest memory of seeing landscape painting up close was visiting the Kelvingrove Gallery as a small boy. What struck me most forcibly that day and has remained such an abiding memory ...

A Garden in July

Added on 10 November 2014

Why have I been painting gardens recently? It's a long story. It took me a long time to discover the visionary landscapes of Samuel Palmer. I had spent two very happy summers drawing the complex rock structures which make up the coastline of the Mull of Kintyre near Carradale. Unlike William M...

Bruegel And The Wisdom Of Climbing Trees

Added on 08 May 2012

While I was still at school I was lucky enough to meet the well known Scottish landscape painter James McIntosh Patrick. I had been struck by his detailed analysis of shape and form in his work, particularly when painting trees. To me his trees looked like loving portraits of distinct personalities ...