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Steve Tompkins
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Painting in Cumbria and NW Scotland

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Hello Bluesky! I’m going to post some of my paintings of the NW British coast over the next few weeks - Cumbria, the Scottish Atlantic seaboard and the Outer Hebrides. I hope you enjoy them.
This is acrylic on watercolour paper, 950x1320mm
South Uist, December - details and finished painting. A real challenge to stay in control of watercolour at this scale.

Handmade watercolour on Atlantis paper 1550x1250mm
December 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Winter sky over the Sleat peninsula, Isle of Skye. A splinter of cold sunlight on the steel coloured sound.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
760x560mm
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
#LandscapeArt #LandscapePainting
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
First batch of 100ml coarse ground watercolours made today - two down, twenty to go… preparing to experiment with some big 1600x1250mm paintings.
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
March sunshine and mist on the high moorland of North Harris, Outer Hebrides.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
760x560mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor
#LandscapeArt #LandscapePainting
November 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
October atmospherics in the hills of North Harris, Outer Hebrides.

Acrylic on Arches paper
1000x650mm
#ArtYear #Landscapepainting #Harris
#OuterHebrides #LandscapeArt
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Winter cloud inversion in Dovedale, Cumbria. Dove Crag alight in frozen morning sunshine.

Acrylic on Arches paper
1000x650mm
#ArtYear #Landscapeart #Cumbria
#Landscape #LakeDistrict #Sunrise
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
One of a recent series of big Hebridean watercolours, trying to scale the texture and mark making of smaller sketches.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
760x560mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor
#Landscapepainting #Landscape
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Big January weather on the coast of Wester Ross, Scotland. A sudden, obliterating squall.

Acrylic on canvas paper
600x400mm
#ArtYear #WesterRoss #Scotland
#Landscapepainting #Landscape
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sun and rain on fells towards Fairfield, Cumbria. Deep, saturated green.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
760x560mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor
#Landscapepainting #Landscape
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Late afternoon light over the Sleat peninsula, Isle of Skye.

Acrylic glaze on Two Rivers paper
760x560mm
#ArtYear #Landscapepainting #Skye
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Ghost brushes overnight on my mixing table.
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Cloud on the Cumbrian fells above my studio in Hartsop

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
450x320mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
November light on Sandwood Bay in Sutherland, NW Scotland

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
750x575mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor
#Landscapepainting #Landscape
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
November rain cloud over Hart Crag, Cumbria. Memory of a saturated walk from my studio this week.

Watercolour and acrylic glaze
on Two Rivers paper 750x575mm
#ArtYear #Landscapepainting #Cumbria #Lakedistrict #Landscape
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
October showers over the kelp beds of Sutherland, NW Scotland

Acrylic glaze on Arches paper
1000x660mm
#LandscapePainting #ArtYear
#Scotland #Sutherland #Landscape
October 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
October morning colours in Sutherland, northern Scotland

Watercolour on crumpled Two Rivers paper
300x200mm
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
October 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
October mist on North Uist, Outer Hebrides.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200m
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
#LandscapeArt #LandscapePainting
October 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Hebridean atmospherics

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200mm
October 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
October dawn light, North Uist

Watercolour on Arches paper
260x180mm
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
#Outerhebrides #NorthUist #Scotland
October 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Evening sun on the western face of Beinn Mhor, South Uist.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200mm
#OuterHebrides #Watercolour #ArtYear #Watercolor #Landscapeart
September 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
April storm light on Sandwood Bay, Sutherland. A remote, sublime place to dissolve back into Nature.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
500x375mm
#Wateecolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
#Scotland #Landscapepainting
September 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
April morning mist on Lewis, Outer Hebrides.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
700x550mm
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
September 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A still sunrise over the Eden Valley from the eastern Cumbrian fells, the Pennine skyline emerging through dawn haze.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200mm
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
#Landscapepainting #Landscapeart
September 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Purple September evening light over Hartsop in Cumbria.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor
September 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Final version of a May evening seascape at Arisaig. A syrupy tide rising though thick kelp and bladderwrack.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
575x375mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolour
#Arisaig #Landscapeart #Scotland
September 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM