John Robert Smith

Cowal Peninsula based artist John Robert Smith joined the gallery before Covid and has been a regular contributor since then. His collections have strong emotive themes. They include his "Lockdown" paintings with musicians playing - socially distanced - on the loch in moonlight, the "Hugs" collection which captured how it felt when we could again hold each other after the first covid release and his "From river to sea" collection, telling the story of his previous home near the Tay and his new home on the Cowal Peninsula.

New pieces

John has three new pieces in this current exhibition, returning to one of his favourite themes, light on water, set in Scottish landscapes.

There are a pair of paintings looking at the landscape at the start and end of the day in different lights, "First light on water" and "Last light on water". They sit in hand painted frames in a black / navy reminiscent of Farrow and Ball's Railings and with a gilt spacer.

The third oil is "Row Boat, Cowal Penninsula", a lonely row boat turned over on the beach and beyond the water a mountain scape. All evocative pieces that continue John's narrative conversation with paint.