Gwen Adair

Gwen Adair grew up in Fife and still visits to paint landscapes. She trained at Glasgow School of Art, and now paints and teaches in Dumfriesshire. She was a shortlisted artist in the 2018 Scottish Portrait Awards. She has shown her work across the UK and developed an impressive following.

She was first known for her figure compositions and portraits, with a fascination for the way the disposition of the figures can create a story in the mind of the viewer. Birds began to appear alongside the figures and these have now become a subject in themselves.

“There is also something knowing about birds. My new-found love of landscape painting is allowing me to use expressive and gestural mark-making, inspired by JD Fergusson. My themes are quite traditional, and I tend to work quickly in an “alla prima” fashion. Hopefully this gives a certain spontaneity to the work. I strongly believe that the paint should be part of the painting, and that the marks themselves should add to the image.”

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Gwen Adair

Work by Gwen Adair:

Days Like This

River Nith in Dumfries

Waxwings

Lobster Boats, Dunbar

Cause & Effect

Dysart Harbour (Looking Out)

Dysart Harbour (Looking In)

Henchanted

The Knife Thrower’s Wife

Circus Dancers

Rare Species

Looking North

Last of the Lavender

Solway Sunset

East Lomond Sunrise

Mist Rising

Bird on a Wire

Blue Crow

Bullfinches

Bullfinches 2

Flood & Gulls

Blue Boat, Evening Light

Solway Nets

Lavender Fields, Fife

December Afternoon, Fife

The Cow Got Into the Barley

Posing Puffin

Curious Robin

Two Red Boats

The Lomonds, Springtime

The Bow of Fife Church

West Coast Sunset

Blue Boat on Blocks

Winter Walk

Ibiza Coast

Circus with Blackbirds

Between Worlds

Red Boat, Loch Ryan

Swallows

May Landscape near Penrith

Standing Sentry

Blackbird

Fife Landscape with Bales

Fife Landscape with a Flash of Yellow

Dunnock’s Teacakes

West Sands, St Andrews

Strutting Stuckie

Ripening Barley (The Lomonds)

The Bow Road

Squally Sky

Summer Puffin

Can I Come In?

Cockerel

Puffins in the Grass

Road End, Fife