Vanessa Bowman was born in 1970 to a family with a long-standing artistic tradition in a stimulating and supportive environment rich in the cultural influences of Europe. Vanessa seeks inspiration for her paintings and textile designs in the sensual qualities of colour and pattern abundant in many of her favourite sources such as architecture, the market stalls and bazaars of Istanbul, Venice and Paris, and the rich palette of an English garden. She has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Watercolourists and the Pastel Society at London’s Mall Galleries, where Vanessa won the prestigious Daler Rowney Best Young Artist in Pastels in 1995 and 1996. In 2022 she was invited to be the Artist in Residence at Marchmont House, Berwickshire.

Mhairi McGregor was born in 1971 and studied at Glasgow School of Art before spending time painting in Australia. Mhairi’s emotional and spontaneous response to her subjects very much comes through in her landscape and still life paintings. The immediacy of initial sketches is developed into more abstract work with Mhairi’s characteristic use of bold colour blocks and rich impasto paint surfaces. "I never want to lose sight completely of what it was that inspired me to paint a particular scene. I love colour, especially layers of colour on top of one another which gives both a depth of paint and sometimes a glimpse of what was there before." Mhairi McGregor has been awarded a number of prizes and scholarships and has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom.

Nasturtiums and
Fish Jug
Oil
Image size: 17" x 20"
Framed size: 22" x 25"

£2,000

Roquessels
Oil
Image size: 10" x 14"
Framed size: 16" x 20"

£2,100

The Garden, Full Summer
Oil
Image size: 16" x 20"
Framed size: 22" x 25"

SOLD

Grape Harvest,
Vieussan
Oil
Image size: 10" x 14"
Framed size: 16" x 20"

SOLD

Blue Summer Flowers
Oil
Image size: 15" x 13"
Framed size: 20" x 18"

SOLD

Tulips
Oil
Image size: 30" x 30"
Framed size: 35" x 35"

SOLD

Springtime Hare
Oil
Image size: 18" x 28"
Framed size: 27" x 35"

SOLD

The Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Oil
Image size: 21" x 53"
Framed size: 27" x 59"
£4,900

White Hellebores
in January
Oil
Image size: 20" x 24"
Framed size: 27" x 31"

£2,500

Peonies
Oil
Image size: 10" x 10"
Framed size: 16" x 16"

SOLD

The Village Fete
Oil
Image size: 17" x 19"
Framed size: 22" x 24"

SOLD

Béziers
Oil
Image size: 18" x 31"
Framed size: 24" x 37"

£4,000

Sheep and Snowdrops
Oil
Image size: 13" x 15"
Framed size: 18"x 20"

SOLD

Abbaye de Vignogoul
Oil
Image size: 18" x 31"
Framed size: 24" x 37"

SOLD

Welsh Jug and
Garden Flowers
Oil
Image size: 14" x 12"
Framed size: 19" x 17"

SOLD

Hydrangeas
Oil
Image size: 10" x 10"
Framed size: 16" x 16"

SOLD

Hellebores at the
Cottage
Oil
Image size: 15" x 17"
Framed size: 20" x 22"

SOLD

Capestang,
South of France
Oil
Image size: 14" x 14"
Framed size: 20" x 20"

£2,400

Dahlias in
Turquoise Jug
Oil
Image size: 13" x 15"
Framed size: 18" x 20"

£1,350

Canal du Midi
Oil
Image size: 14" x 14"
Framed size: 20" x 20"

£2,400