These views I recently enjoyed while Munro Bagging on Beinn Liath Mhor and Sgorr Ruadh are oil paintings on card, the panoramic format 100 x 49 cm is much larger than my usual work. Features of interest are Beinn Liath Bheag, a quartzite covered mountain that glowed while surrounded by mountains with the famous Torridon Giants making up the sky line and the other, a sandstone peak giving a reddish tint. The use of just blue, yellow, red and white pigments creates many more shades of green.
Biography
After moving to Edinburgh I took up Munro Bagging in my retirement which with a pursuit of competence in art through the Leith School of Art has resulted in creating a series of paintings from eye watering and picturesque views. Working from photographs locate the subject whilst an attempt is made to overlay some of the emotions experienced which include achievement, wonder, ecstasy, fear, loneliness, influenced by the weather, terrain, remoteness and one’s state of mind. My work fairly representational is moving towards abstraction to convey more experiences felt and therefore less literal art.
