by Allan MacDonald | Jun 22, 2018 | Exhibitions
Sometimes, when we acquire something new (lawn mower, camera, stove), the desire is to use it immediately without reading the instructions. It’s only later that we find ourselves returning to the manual for more meaningful guidance. I think painting can be a bit like...
by Allan MacDonald | Mar 18, 2018 | Thoughts
I’m writing this from a lay-by in a forsaken area of the West Coast of Lewis. The wind is a monotone chant, the rain beats out an irregular rhythm, the light is background only, a faint descant. What on earth am I doing here? The writer Michel Faber once...
by Allan MacDonald | Mar 18, 2015 | Publications
Allan MacDonald’s breath taking seascapes reveal why he is regarded as one of the UK’s most respected and accomplished landscape artists. The beauty of MacDonald’s Art lies in its sheer physicality and meditative insight. His is an Art of going out to face the...
by Allan MacDonald | Mar 18, 2010 | Publications
GEORGINA COBURN feels the artist’s work has entered a brilliant new phase THIS is a landmark solo exhibition by one of Scotland’s foremost landscape artists. Allan Macdonald has wholly succeeded in presenting a definitive and powerful visual statement, infused with a...
by Allan MacDonald | Jun 18, 2004 | Publications
Painting the volcanic crags and swirling seas of St Kilda is not a job for the easily discouraged. The archipelago, famously abandoned in 1930 by its inhabitants, is only accessible on days when gales don’t force the helicopter to cancel the sixty-mile flight over the...
