2025

SELF-PORTRAIT WITH FIRED EGG ROLL AND GHOST TEMPLE

Posted by Jane Wheeler

oil and acrylic on collaged canvas 70 x 70 x 4.2 cm.

at the Pillars of Hercules. My breakfast before a walk. The temple is now a ruin, it was built for Onesiphorus Tyndall-Bruce at Falkland in the 19th century, he named it the Temple of Decision. The Pillars is a delightful vegetarian and vegan cafe and shop and veg nursery and campsite and bothy holiday place. Named after the stones used to stand coffins on while resting from waulking them to the nearby burial place. Up on the hill is the Tyndall-Bruce Monument.

 

A DREAM OF SCOTSTARVIT AND A SHOAL OF SUNS

Posted by Jane Wheeler

oil, acrylic and collage on canvas, 80 x 70 cm

within walking distance of Cupar there is a classic Scottish Tower House built in the sixteenth century, and very near to that is the steep little Hill of Tarvit. Both loom in the background of this semi-abstract landscape painting.

SOME LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS FROM A WALK AT FINDO GASK

Posted by Jane Wheeler

Findo Gask is a tiny place in Perthshire where ancient and recently modern warfare come together. Around it are the traces of a Roman camp and signal stations, and during WW2 there was an RAF airfield , all invisible now, although there is a monument memorialising the airfield and the personnel. This memorable shape of sitka plantation and lochan, or pond grabbed my attention and I made a very quick sketch, which was the seed for these paintings. The day moon was present high up in the clear blue sky, a special spring phenomenon, I think, it was mid-April and a warm day.

This first painting, day moon and reflections at Findo Gask, is oil over acrylic and collage on cradled panel, 76 x 76 cm.

Findo Gask day moon, oil on cradled gesso board, 20 x 25 cm.

day moon and pond at Findo Gask, oil on plywood panel, 30 x 30 cm

Findo Gask, oil on plywood panel, 25 x 20 cm

TWO BLACKBIRDS, EARLY JULY GARDEN

Posted by Jane Wheeler

acrylic and oils on collaged canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Continuing to paint my garden, on a bigger canvas, this is another corner, next to the studio door and the old shed. We have had glorious singing from the blackbird, he’s up on next door’s television aerial. And sometimes down in the flowerbeds and on the grass finding bugs. I am sorry to say there are not many worms in my garden.

FROM THIN WOODS AND GLADES

Posted by Jane Wheeler

oil on collaged wood panel, 61 x 61 cm, 2025

A painting of asters and of a cone flower in my prairie garden, the Glade Coneflower which is something of a rarity in its native Kentucky , and it’s quite difficult to grow from seed.