The Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye. Plein air painting from a recent camping trip. by Jem Bowden

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Lovely painting Jem.

Very recognisable and very good

Excellent subject and painting.

What a lovely memory of your camping trip. I like the desolate atmosphere Jem.

It is a beautiful painting of a rugged and desolate place on Skye

Dear all, Thank you very much for your comments. I was frankly quite lucky that the subject was not lost in mist/cloud, as it often is, and was when I previously attempted to visit and paint it about a decade earlier. Very steep sloping ground here, literally everywhere if you leave the actual path, so I had no option but to sit down with the easel (back leg fully extended, front two as short as they go!), rather than my usual standing - for the first time actually in many years.

A very well painted watercolour Jem, those strongly painted trees really stand out against the pale sky.

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01/08/2025
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Plein air painting from a recent camping trip. 53 x 33 cm watercolour.

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Jem Bowden

Full time artist/painter, tutor and contributor to Leisure Painter magazine. Specialist in watercolour landscape. I am mostly a 'plein air' (outdoors from life) painter. For for full information on various forms of tuition and to see current galleries of work for sale (only original, no prints)…

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