Castle on the Loch
An oil on canvas painted during a visit to the Scottish Highlands in 2019, depicting a stone castle on its island at low tide. The format (30 × 20 inches) suits the kind of direct observation that travel painting encourages.
The subject belongs to a long tradition of Highland landscape painting, where the interplay of water, rock, and sky has drawn artists since at least the Romantic period. The choice of low tide shifts the mood from the conventionally dramatic to something quieter and more grounded: the castle anchored to its exposed foreshore rather than floating on open water, the surrounding loch pulled back to reveal the geology beneath.