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Steve Tompkins
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Painting in Cumbria and NW Scotland

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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · Nov 19
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
Lewis, Outer Hebrides acrylic on paper 950x1350mm
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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
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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
A Scottish landscape with a dark foreground, a shadowy lake in the midground and a cloudy sky. Painted with Ultramarine, Lamp Black, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna and Raw Sienna pigments.
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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First batch of 100ml coarse ground watercolours made today - two down, twenty to go… preparing to experiment with some big 1600x1250mm paintings.
A work table showing two tubes of handmade watercolour, a glass muller, pliers, swatches, binder, gum Arabic and honey.
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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March sunshine and mist on the high moorland of North Harris, Outer Hebrides.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
760x560mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor
#LandscapeArt #LandscapePainting
A misty moorland landscape with earth coloured foreground and a golden cloudy sky. Painted with Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber and Ultramarine pigment
November 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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October atmospherics in the hills of North Harris, Outer Hebrides.

Acrylic on Arches paper
1000x650mm
#ArtYear #Landscapepainting #Harris
#OuterHebrides #LandscapeArt
A moorland landscape with a rich Heather foreground, blue grey hills and a cloudy sky. Painted with earth colours, Cobalt Blue, Ceruleum and Ultramarine.
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Winter cloud inversion in Dovedale, Cumbria. Dove Crag alight in frozen morning sunshine.

Acrylic on Arches paper
1000x650mm
#ArtYear #Landscapeart #Cumbria
#Landscape #LakeDistrict #Sunrise
A sunrise mountain landscape with a misty foreground, sunlit mountains and a clear morning sky. Painted with Ultramarine, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red, Raw Sienna and Zinc White pigments.
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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
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Big January weather on the coast of Wester Ross, Scotland. A sudden, obliterating squall.

Acrylic on canvas paper
600x400mm
#ArtYear #WesterRoss #Scotland
#Landscapepainting #Landscape
A stormy landscape with a dark foreground, distant surf, a hazy headland and a storm cloudy sky.
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Sun and rain on fells towards Fairfield, Cumbria. Deep, saturated green.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
760x560mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor
#Landscapepainting #Landscape
A mountain landscape with a golden green foreground, dark shadowy green midground and a cloudy sky. Painted with ultramarine, raw Sienna, Cadmium yellow, Hookers Green, Sap green and raw umber pigment.
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Late afternoon light over the Sleat peninsula, Isle of Skye.

Acrylic glaze on Two Rivers paper
760x560mm
#ArtYear #Landscapepainting #Skye
A seascape with a low sea horizon, rocky foreshore and gold/grey cloudy sky with raking sunlight. Painted with Raw Umber, Raw Sienna and Paynes Grey pigment
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Ghost brushes overnight on my mixing table.
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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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
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November light on Sandwood Bay in Sutherland, NW Scotland

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
750x575mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor
#Landscapepainting #Landscape
A landscape with a rocky foreshore, seaweed and a distant beach. Painted with earth colours, Paynes Grey, Cobalt Blue and Ultramarine pigment
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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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
A mountain landscape painting with a golden foreground, misty horizon and a rainy sky. Painted with earth pigments, ultramarine and cobalt blue.
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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October showers over the kelp beds of Sutherland, NW Scotland

Acrylic glaze on Arches paper
1000x660mm
#LandscapePainting #ArtYear
#Scotland #Sutherland #Landscape
A landscape of a tidal estuary in Scotland with a foreground of wet seaweed, distant water, a grey/gold horizon and a grey, rainy sky. Painted with earth colours, Paynes grey and Alizarin Crimson pigment
October 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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October morning colours in Sutherland, northern Scotland

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

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200m
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
#LandscapeArt #LandscapePainting
A watercolour landscape with a graduated dark brown/golden foreground, misty blue horizon and grey silver sky. Painted with earth colours, Cobalt blue and Ceruleum pigment
October 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Hebridean atmospherics

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

Watercolour on Arches paper
260x180mm
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
#Outerhebrides #NorthUist #Scotland
A watercolour sunrise with a shadow foreground, yellow pink horizon and a pale blue pink sky. Painted with Cadmium yellow, Cadmium red, Ceruleum, Cobalt blue and lamp black pigment
October 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Evening sun on the western face of Beinn Mhor, South Uist.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200mm
#OuterHebrides #Watercolour #ArtYear #Watercolor #Landscapeart
A sunset watercolour with a dark maroon foreground, bright red horizon and cloudy pink/lavender sky. Painted with Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Raw Sienna and Ultramarine pigment
September 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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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
A watercolour seascape with a grey brown wet beach foreground, green stormy sea and a blue grey cloudy sky. Painted with Burnt Umber, Ultramarine, yellow Ochre and Viridian pigment
September 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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April morning mist on Lewis, Outer Hebrides.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
700x550mm
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
A landscape of Scottish moorland with a dark, highly textured foreground, pale grey/brown horizon and misty bright sky. Painted with Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine pigment
September 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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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
A watercolour sunrise, with a dark red/brown foreground, golden pink midground, lavender horizon and a pale yellow blue sky. Painted with Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Raw Umber, Alizarin Crimson and Ultramarine
September 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Purple September evening light over Hartsop in Cumbria.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor
A watercolour sunset with a dark purple/brown foreground, golden pink horizon and a purple sky. Painted with Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine, Indigo and Raw Sienna pigment
September 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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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
A Scottish seascape with a blue grey sea and a lemon blue sky. Painted with Pale Cadmium yellow, Ceruleum, Ultramarine and Earth Colours
September 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM