Scottish Landscape artist Lynn McGregor RSW has been travelling around, building her memories of the beautiful Scottish countryside and translating them into painted scenes, for many years now. It is these two elements, landscape and memory, which are the building blocks of her work combined with her unique approach to application which allows her to create such extraordinary Scottish landscape paintings.
Rather than painting and repeating exactly what she sees, Scottish artist Lynn McGregor RSW draws on her own memories of the scenes she captures. Playing with the textual and geometrical shapes of the landscapes Lynn McGregor RSW breaks her subject into layers of marks and colours in an almost printmaker fashion. These layers combined with the more personal layers of her own memories create work which is both visually pleasing and evocative. Being both mentally and physically embedded in the landscape, her studio sitting between a wooded hillside and Loch Awe, her practiced hand is at ease letting intuition and the marks themselves led her in the initial application of paint, before later balancing all the elements within the composition with a more controlled and critiquing eye.
Lynn McGregor’s clean lines, blocked shapes, considered colour palette and instinctive mark making is all seamless captured through her wisely chosen medium, acrylic. Acrylic paint enables the fairly immediate building of layers due to its fast-drying nature, stopping colours from getting muddied accidentally and allowing a more impulsive, instantaneous covering.
This is the Seascape art page from Red Rag Scottish Art Gallery featuring the best in contemporary Scottish art. Throughout the year Red Rag features Scottish art from artists who specialise in creating fine Seascape paintings. Today is no exception you will find Red Rag Scottish Art Gallery has an extensive collection of Seascape art and paintings by leading contemporary artists.
Human beings have always had an intimate relationship with the water. Given the amount of the earth’s surface which is covered in water and the often unpredictable and life-changing nature of the sea, it is little wonder that seascapes have been such a popular subject for so long and no surprise that seascape paintings have an important place in the history of art.
Seascape paintings have a long history in both the Eastern and Western worlds.The walls of homes have been adorned with seascape paintings since the art of the secular painting first began to overtake religious works in numbers and importance.
As a country with an extensive coastline, paintings of seascapes have always had a special attraction to Scottish artists. All the seascape paintings at Red Rag showcase the talent of Scottish painters and their ability to depict changing light on water and rapidly altering climatic conditions. Many of the Scottish artists who have painted these seascape paintings are also talented landscape painters, or worked in other genres as well as seascapes, such as still life or portraiture.
