Sleeping Giants: Scottish Highland Landscape Art Collection

These paintings begin without a fixed image. I work from remembered landscapes rather than observed ones, allowing forms to emerge through the process of painting itself. Mountains appear not as places, but as structures, weight, pressure, accumulation. I am interested in how landscape carries time, and how paint can hold that sense of duration.

Oil paint matters here. I build surfaces slowly, layering, scraping back, reworking. Texture is not decorative; it is evidence of decisions, revisions, and resistance. Some areas are worked until they become opaque and heavy, others are left thin, almost provisional. The surface records hesitation as much as intent.

The mountains are simplified, repeated, sometimes distorted. They are not meant to be symbolic, but they inevitably become so. They sit somewhere between solidity and instability, between permanence and erosion. I am drawn to that tension, the idea that something can feel immovable while constantly changing.

I do not aim for drama or spectacle. If there is a sense of scale, it comes from restraint rather than exaggeration. The paintings are quiet, but not passive. They ask for time. Meaning, if it arrives at all, comes through looking, not explanation.