Selected paintings

Dunsinnan skyline, with highland cattle and moody sky.

The Sidlaw hills between Perth and Dundee, in Perthshire just north of the Tay (the biggest freshwater river in the UK). The Sidlaws are one of the world’s most ancient volcanic ranges or rock formations, according to the display in the Perth Museum. Here, Macbeth’s castle, atop a 4500 year old neolithic hill fort, is picked out by a moon or pale sun. This scene is drawn from a walk taken one April, the first we did in that area – with the light beginning to draw out the growing days are long. You can go to this spot, and visit the cows too. The Highland cattle live on the outskirts of Dundee along from its airport: a blond, a ginger and two blacks (one of these is a duplicate). The hedges in Perthshire are old beech, and trimmed with big machines but not laid. They are alive with daffodils in May, thickly growing along every verge. The deer don’t like daffodils, only tulips! Little roe deer roam the gardens, and bark if offended. The barking of the deer – hares are everywhere and pheasants magnificent.

Oil painting size 120cm w x 80 cm h on canvas

For sale £2000; framed or unframed.

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Perfect atonement – meditation on bread and wine

The perfect sacrifice of Himself once offered. A man who was born only of woman, and of the Holy Spirit who came upon her, able to live a live free of any kind of naughtiness, unkind thought or selfish deed, was the only person that could get to the end of His life “without sin”. The old testament/Jewish scriptures teach of a saviour who will “remove the sins of the people of God in one day” which Jesus did at the cross, dying for the sins of all who wish it – so that those folk can live in His Righteousness before God. He told those who wished to follow him to eat His flesh and drink His blood, which he turned into a ceremony of sharing bread that is broken, and the drink of the day (wine) – graciously turning this rather gruesome statement into a beautiful, physical sharing “as often as you meet”.

The idea came during a communion service, when thinking on what we were doing…

Oil on canvas about 5 feet high, with appropriately, a tear in the canvas

For sale £2000; framed or unframed.

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