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In Our Element
Clare Blois, Fiona Matheson, Katherine Sutherland & Dot Walker
​6th - 28th March

These four Highland artists do not merely ‘copy’ their native landscape and its weather, but have the courage to express themselves as artists.  Each artist is individual, tackling their chosen subject matter from a different perspective.
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Clare Blois

Clare Blois is a ‘gestural colourist’ who enjoys moving oil paint around the canvas. Her larger studio paintings may use smaller en plein air oil sketches as their starting point but as she works on the imagery they move away from replicating an actual scene towards a finished painting that is more concerned with colour, movement and composition. She is searching for an honest, painterly response to the landscape that encapsulates her feelings and emotions and sense of enjoyment.
Winter Seascape, oil on board, 15 x 20cm
Autumn Plein Air, Black Isle, oil on canvas, 50 x 76cm
Fields at Redcastle, oil on board, 15 x 20cm
Green Sea in the West, oil on canvas, 27 x 35cm
Into the Blue, oil on canvas, 46 x 61cm
Late Sunflowers, Ariege, oil on canvas, 40 x 50cm
Ploughed Field, Redcastle, oil on canvas, 46 x 61cm
Sunlight, Beauly River, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm
Winterreise, Kiltarlity, oil on canvas, 30 x 30cm
North Coast Elements (building blocks), oil on canvas, 10 x 10cm each SOLD
Elemental Skies, oil on canvas, 60 x 70cm SOLD
Sudden Cloud near Kishorn, oil on canvas, 40 x 102cm SOLD

Fiona Matheson

Fiona Matheson’s starting point for her landscape painting is her interest in texture, masking, pattern and design which is embedded in her as a result of her previous career as a textile designer. As an artist, coming from several generations of Highland crofters, her relationship with the landscape is deeply rooted and the resulting paintings capture the essence of the landscape without being too literal.
Awaiting the Tide, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 100cm
Four Houses, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40cm
Shore Cottages, Berriedale, acrylic on canvas, 51 x 74cm
Tombolo Beach, St Ninians, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 150cm
Two Chimneys, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40cm
Glen Affric, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 91cm SOLD
The Fishing Shore from Berriedale Water, acrylic on canvas, 37 x 75cm SOLD
Through the Bracken, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 15cm SOLD
In the Clearing, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 15cm SOLD
Orange Field, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 15cm SOLD
White Horizon, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 15cm SOLD

Katherine Sutherland

Katherine Sutherland took up painting, in a serious fashion, only a few years ago but is already creating exciting and confident paintings. Inspired by the example of the Scottish Colourists, 1900-1930, her oil paintings have strong compositions and brushwork and capture the harmonious balances of colour evident in the beautiful Scottish Highlands that surround her. For this exhibition she will be showing oil and watercolour paintings of Inverewe Gardens and the surrounding landscape, suggesting a ‘sense of place’ from the delicate gardens to the dramatic landscape.
Beinn Airigh Charr, watercolour, 23 x 27cm
Eucalyptus Tree, oil on canvas, 53 x 53cm
Gairloch and Torridon Mountains, watercolour, 21 x 36cm
Kernsary Walk, watercolour, 21 x 36cm
Magnolia Study I, oil on board, 34 x 39cm
Magnolia Study II, oil on board, 34 x 39cm
Reflections, Loch Kernsary, watercolour, 30 x 55cm
Rough Seas, Gairloch, oil on canvas, 113 x 163cm
Thunder Plume, watercolour, 21 x 36cm
Waterlily Pond, Inverewe, oil on canvas, 43 x 83cm
Waterlily Study, oil on board, 34 x 39cm
Walled Garden, Inverewe, mixed media and pastel, 81 x 100cm SOLD
Slioch and Loch Maree, watercolour, 21 x 36cm SOLD
Loch Kernsary, Poolewe, watercolour 21.5 x 26cm SOLD
Gairloch and Torridon Mountains, watercolour, 21 x 36cm SOLD

Dot Walker

Dot Walker is always looking to the next project, new subject matter or inspiration, resulting in quite a diverse range of techniques and imagery. She walks most days in the countryside with a sketchbook, sometimes working in oil en plein air but more often working in her studio. For this exhibition she will present some new still lifes and evocative, spiritual imagery from the coast demonstrating her mastery of the traditional use of oil paint on canvas.
Clementines, oil on canvas, 30 x 100cm
Mangersta Spray, oil on canvas, 60 x 60cm
Morning Light Lemons, oil on canvas, 20 x 50cm
Nectarines, oil on canvas, 20 x 50cm
Onion Still Life, oil on canvas, 40 x 40cm
Where the Sea Meets the Sky, Seilebost, oil on canvas, 20 x 50cm
Chestnut Still Life, oil on canvas, 40 x 40cm SOLD
Late Flight, oil on canvas, 40 x 40cm SOLD
Meet Me There (Tolsta), oil on canvas, 60 x 60cm SOLD
November Snow Strath Nairn, oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm SOLD
Rosemarkie Sunday, oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm SOLD
Turn of the Tide, Harris, oil on canvas, 20 x 50cm SOLD
Waiting, oil on canvas, 30 x 30cm SOLD
Nisabost Blues, oil on canvas, 76 x 122cm SOLD
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