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Silent cliffs and restless water

July 21, 2020

“The contrast between silent cliffs and restless water offer powerful pictorial dynamics for an artist, as do the changes of light and shade and the air full of circling birds. The cliffs are a frontier between us and the horizon – to the seabirds, they are a necessary foothold on which to nest; a vertical boundary to their wider world of waves and currents.  It is memorable in all weathers and seasons and full of surprises.”

John wrote this for the opening of an exhibition about St Abbs Head National Nature Reserve on the East coast of  Scotland. St Abbs was a favourite place of his, and features in many of his seabird paintings and drawings.  Here are the pictures that feature in the video. Enjoy!

Gannets at Hermaness, Shetland 1989
signed oil painting 50 x 70 cm £2200 This was painted after a visit to Hermaness, Scotland's most northerly gannet colony, while filming for STV's Portrait of the Wild series.
Gannets and Rock Pipit
signed watercolour Not for Sale
Gannets in the wind
drawing not for sale
Bass Rock
unsigned drawing 20 x 14 cm £130 buy now original from Lines from Nature p.53
St Abb's Head and boats
signed watercolour 2008 29 x 29 cm £650 framed
Gannet Chick 2010
unsigned watercolour 25 x 28 cm £450 buy now
Craigleith. Kittiwakes and Bass Rock 1999
signed watercolour sketch 38 x 27cm £350 buy now slight marks on paper
Gulls nesting, Fidra
unsigned watercolour 31 x 22 cm £350 buy now
Fighting Kittiwakes, Bass Rock
signed oil on canvas 60 x 45 cm in frame £please enquire
Kittiwake 'Dread'. St Abbs 2009
signed watercolour 26 x 36 cm SOLD
The Cleaver, St Abbs 2008
signed watercolour 30 x 30 cm £400

 

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