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Northern Light: Rock of Ages – Allan MacDonald Georgina Coburn 2015

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...

Pale Moon of the Seasons: Review by Georgina Coburn 2010

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...

Extract from Catalogue, written by Michel Faber

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...

Recent Exhibitions

The Sound of Many Waters in Tatha Gallery, Dundee

Recent Posts

  • Moment in the sun
  • The Sound of many waters
  • Transparency | An exhibition by ALLAN MACDONALD in Kilmorack Gallery
  • Lunation
  • Despatches from remote places

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Tom Thomson

Many aspects of my paintings have also been fed by an ongoing admiration for Canadian artist Tom Thomson. His nocturnes, birches and monumental skies are all elements that reappear in my work. My beech nocturnes, partly attributed to the children’s programme In The Night Garden, are also indebted to the immediate effect

Recent Posts

  • Moment in the sun
  • The Sound of many waters
  • Transparency | An exhibition by ALLAN MACDONALD in Kilmorack Gallery
  • Lunation
  • Despatches from remote places

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About Me

The writer Michel Faber once described my work as 'excited despatches from remote places' and there is an element of truth in this. I am drawn to paint in places where the human imprint is small. But where is truly remote? I can get as much a sense of remoteness looking out my back door as I can from driving till the road runs out on the North West coast.
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