Landscapes

'McLaren had always been drawn to arresting and dramatic subject matter while at the same time he has consistently implied that his real subject is abstract, that the dashing marks he makes on his board care nothing for their mimetic quality but only for their inherent abstract property. This may be so and allies him with William McTaggart, in whose late works the ostensible subject of children, dune, sea and sky are subsumed by the drama of the paint itself, but with both painters we must be allowed to enjoy the brilliant suggestion of sea spume in the air, powerful wave on unyielding shore and the continuing, dramatic performance of the elements.

When the artist first came to Orkney some eight years ago he had to serve an apprenticeship of restraint, such was the sensory overload of this dramatic new landscape, before he could see the subject he could paint. Now his series of sea/rock paintings are one of the most heartfelt attempts at landscape since Joan Eardley painted at Catterline'

Scottish Landscapes. The Scottish Gallery, Aitken Dott Ltd.

Peter McLaren, Skipi Geo, Orkney. Oil on Board, 48 x 48 inches. Collection of Andrew & Pamela Taylor
Orkney Seascape
Peter McLaren, Marwick Head, Orkney, Oil on Board 36 x 36 inches
Seascape Skipi Geo
Peter McLaren, Skipi Geo, Orkney. Oil on Board, 48 x 48 inches
Portland Gallery Seascape
Peter McLaren, Skipi Geo, Orkney. Oil on Board, 48 x 36 inches
Portland Gallery Seascape
Peter McLaren, Orkney Landscape, Oil on Board, 48 x 36 inches
Scottish Gallery Seascape
Peter McLaren, Skipi Geo, Orkney, Oil on Board, 48 x 36 inches
Seascape
Peter McLaren, Skipi Geo, Orkney, Oil on Board 60 x 48 inches
Scottish Gallery Seascape
Peter McLaren, Skipi Geo, Orkney. Oil on Board, 60 x 48 inches
Seascape
Peter McLaren, Skipi Geo, Orkney. Oil on Board, 66 x 48 inches.
Seascape
Peter McLaren, Skipi Geo, Orkney, Oil on Board, 66 x 48 inches
Seascape
Peter McLaren, Skipi Geo, Orkney. Oil on Board, 48 x 66 inches. Aberdeen Asset Management Collection, New York.
Seascape
Peter McLaren, OIl on Board, Speyside Sunset, 30 x 24 inches
Speyside Sunset
Peter McLaren, Speyside Sunset II, Oil on Board, 24 x21 inches, Aberdeen Asset Management Collection
Landscape Speyside
Skipi Geo with Gulls
Peter McLaren, Skipi Geo with Gulls, Orkney, Oil on Board, 48 x48 inches, Kirkcaldy Galleries
Glassmount.
Glassmount, Oil on Board, 30 x 20, Collection of Pamela and Andrew Taylor.
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Peter McLaren

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Landscapes

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