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Landscape with Grey Sky
Classical Landscape No.3
Untitled
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Untitled ceramic
Garland 3
By Evening
Still life of flowers in a vase, on a patterned table cloth in front of coloured prints.
In this print, the artist depicts five gulls sitting quietly in calm water, viewed from above.
Flowers on Blue Cloth
Blue Room
Rainbow
Coastal landscape.
Pink Still Life
A Landscape with Fields or Fieldscape
Untitled - David Cohen
David Cohen - Untitled
A stylized view of a rooftop cityscape
Abstract painting with geometric forms.
Abstract landscape
Embroidered and woven piece on linen.
A white plate and a dark bowl on fruit on a black rectangle against  a marbled background.
Winter study of the London Embankment.
Still Life with Apples and Dressing Table
Stonewear plate.
Zurich Improvisations XI
Abstracted image of riders on horseback.
Still life depicting a blue and white cup and saucer in front of a vase containing flowers.
Harbour scene
Portrait of a little girl with blond hair and blue eyes.
Cardwell Bay from Above Gourock
Still Life with Shell
Landscape.
Kintyre landscape.
Evening Landscape
Tarbert
Dunoon
Cliff and Moon
Lochgilphead
Fisherman's Window
Oban
Campbeltown
Woman and Trees
Woman With Birds
Angry Sea, Ravenna
Pale Moon Carpet
Spring Landscape No. 1
Man and Warrior
Coventry Evensong
Untitled
Roseberry
Facade
Summer Day
Mixed media artwork depicting flowers in a decorative vase, on a patterned tablecloth
June Hedgerow
Landscape painting, in which the artist emphasises the abstract patterns of nature using thick layers of paint, which have been applied and scraped back to create a highly textured surface.
Quilted piece of a patchwork, composed of coloured squares.
Wave Islay
Abstract sea image, embroidered patchwork square panel with luminous blue at the top fading to grey at the bottom, mounted on a grey cloth. Part of a series of works developed from direct observation of nature.
Abstract image of the sea created from appliqued elongated triangular strips of muted grey, green and blue. Part of a series of works developed from direct observation of nature.
August in Eaglesham
Abstract study of stitched blue cloth on a blue background. Part of a series of works developed from direct observation of nature.
Abstracted embroidered waterfall on a soft blue background, falling from a calm horizontal strip of bright blue sky.
Abstract sculpture of a cow created in stoneware using brown cream and beige glazes on a slate base.
Abstract painting in pure bold colour painted in sweeping gestural brushstrokes
Semi-abstract composition depicting a thunderstorm in a landscape of fields and industrial buildings.
Abstract painting, split into two panels. This assemblage uses oil paint, newsprint, tissue, coloured paper and pencil.
Interior scene of a fish market, with two women in the upper left, a man in the top right of the painting and a flat capped man walking in the foreground.
Drawing of two figures
Under a Clear Blue Sky
Stylized depiction of a palm tree and vegetation in the background, printed using a muted colour pallette.
Down to Sea
Study of a cityscape in winter, with leafless trees in the foreground, in front of a large terraced building in background.
Rose Street
Drawing of industrial buildings with a stream in the foreground.
Drawing of two houses in a natural landscape.
Oil painting of the Last Supper
Lithograph still life, which includes a fish, mirror and seagull
Animal Study
Abstract still life of a group of objects and a piece of cut fruit sitting on a table with carved legs.
Icarus
Drawing of a collection of bones, a crab claw and other objects hanging in front of a rectangular cloth tied to a post with a wattle fence behind and receding hills beyond.
The artist captures the first or last light of the day, with reflected sunlight hitting the water below.
Untitled by Duncan Macleod
Landscape painted in thick impasto, in vivid colours.
Landscape in watercolour, using simplified shapes and earthy, tonal colours.
Loosely painted abstract image of an abstract Celtic cross with various shapes and patterns in the background
Composition dominated by a large circular tree trunk in the foreground, through which rocks can be seen along the horizon.
Dream like image with a shoeless girl in dungarees and a yellow top, floating with her arms in the air.
Still life painting, secured within an artist s easel, of two jugs with flowers, either side of a white violin.
Abstract forms in blues, pink and black.
Still life painting of objects left behind in the aftermath of a party against a dark background. The objects are painted flat against the surface of the table, without use of perspective.
Portrait of a man sitting on a chair, playing a French horn.
Study of farm buildings and surrounding landscape.
This painting depicts a red wall with two square windows in the centre. The windows contain smaller paintings.
Figures in a boat
Still life with anemone flowers in a brown jug alongside a pear in a square blue dish. A pear and a green apple are placed on the table in front of the jug.
Illustration for Thomas Gray s  Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , based on stanza 16. Parker s monochromatic wood engraving depicts a central figure of a man. The man is standing in a farmyard, holding a wooden pail, followed by several chickens, with a steading to his right and haystacks to his left.
Detailed illustration of two flowering water lilies and lily leaves with reflections on water.
Decorative images on a slate title adhered to a black support board, with mixed media applied to the surface, coloured pva, silica and coloured paper.
Mixed media, highly decorative image of a chair, with a stong focus on pattern and texture.
Winged Skull
Ceramic pot with narrow neck
Mixed media artwork of teeth-like scorched wood with tacks and nails embedded on a blue background, set in a concrete frame.
Kelvinhaugh Street
Starkly drawn bending trees, on a corner of a road against a winter sky.
Study of an interior, with a man in a booth to the left, alongside red weighing scales covered by green cloth.
Artwork
Cattle
Youth
Jade sculpture, with four carved heads, one on each side of the sculpture.
Drawing of a coastal landscape with corn stooks in the mid and foreground.
Loosely painted scene, with a paraffin lamp, a knife and an applein the foreground. On the dark horizon, an angular black bird is painted against an exterior scene at night.
Cutting Wood
Heron
Ngalyod, the Rainbow Serpent
Ostriches
Victims of War
Depiction of a group of fishermen's houses next to a small harbour.
Monochromatic, highly stylized image of a decorative figure, leaping in a field of mushrooms with lightning bolts above him.
Two figures decorated in flowers entwined with birds, rabbits, tortoise and flowers.
Still Life with Flowers
Semi- abstract painting with two figures in the right hand corner contained in black scratched-out squares.
Figure Crucified
Abstracted still life painted using loose, expressive brushwork, with vivid colour contrasting with large areas of dark and shadow.
Highly stylized depiction of two cocks fighting, within a decorative frame.
Abstract style painting with wide range of tonal variation and colours.
Highly stylized depiction of a figure with crown, surrounded by a sword, a large and small bottle and other objects.
Blue faced figure smoking a pipe and wearing a hat with green butterfly and other decorative motifs.
Badje Pickard - Untitled
Misty abstract seascape, which may have been painted on the island of Lusty Beg in Ireland, where the artist lived.
Gruinart, Islay
Eoligarry VI
Westerly Breeze, Kintyre
Abstract decorative print, based on the lily pond at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
Open-air scene depicting brightly coloured advertising hoarding and shop fronts against muted coloured buildings. Two figures stand or squat in front of a shop front, and one figure is seated in the foreground wearing a big coat and hat, reading a newspaper.
Abstract collage.
RH - Untitled
RH - Untitled 2
Vividly coloured, illustrative style painting of a man sitting on a white horse, playing a lute, riding past a town in the background.
Landscape in Green and Red.
Abstract landscape painting in blues and greens.
Two small figures seated on a raised form, which itself sits on a wide plane.
Portrait of the artist, surrounded by line drawings of cats.
Line drawing of a youth with knees raised, seated on an arm chair.
Sangomas by Lucky Sibiya
Funnel and Steering Gear
Feathered Serpent
The Loch Seaforth in the Kyles of Lochalsh
Derelict Cottage, Applecross
Untitled by Henry Tayali
Abstract print with decorative blue and white shape and other geometric forms against a black background.
Steel Works Near Swansea
St Monance, Fife
Unknown - Untitled 5
Unknown - Untitled
Three Mounted Studies
Unknown - Untitled 2
Unknown - Untitled 4
Unknown - Untitled 3
The Green Land
Abstract piece created from plaster, foils, glass mosaic and braided thread.
Abstract style painting with large slabs of muted grey colours.
Seaside scene in muted colours, dominated by a beach wall and steps, leading up to houses on the right. Three figures in the background collect sea coal from the beach.
Embroidered wool striped circular shape on horizontal striped bands on a black background.
Monochromatic abstract print, with emphasis on mark making.
Wood carving of a bullfighter, holding a cape
Drawing of a seascape, with hills and sky on the horizon.
Abstract seascape in watercolour by artist William Wright
Beyond Kilbarchan

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