Scotland - The Land | Jan Clizer

• Highland Bred

  Oil, Canvas, 22 x 28 x 0.5. Sheep, an intrinsic part of Scottish culture and both the bane & boon of many generations. The infamous Highland Clearances, destroying families & culture were staged to make room for sheep,…

• Hairy Coo

  Pastel, Cansons pastel paper, 10 x 12. A 'great hairy beasty' met on one of Scotland's lovely Western Isles, Kerrera, across from Oban. I wonder if their thick, shaggy coats are specifically purposed to keep the midgies…

• Winter Sunset, Fettes Farm Field

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36 x 0.5. Is it the Black Isle’s mystical history colouring my view, perhaps, or the moist air rising from the ever-changing Beauly Firth…or a bit of both? This was a lovely rural winter scene I just H…

• Calanais
• Dunnottar from the Sea

  Oil, Canvas, 40" x 32 1/4" x 1". Dunnottar, to my mind one of the top castles in Scotland, for sheer grandeur of archictecture and situation on it's high promontory above the sea. Wandering among the various stone struc…

• Dowally Clyde

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30 x 0.5". 'Heavy Horses,' as large working horse breeds are known in the UK, and bagpipes always make my eyes water. No exception here! Such a giant of a horse, acting like a colt again in his paddock…

• Melrose Abbey Vista

  Oil, Panel, 4 x 6. The remains of Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders and surrounds on a lovely autumn day. Peaceful now, the whole area oozes with turbulence and history as Scotland and England jostled for control ov…

• Scotland-inspired Paintings
• Beauly Firth

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10" x 1/8"

• Dryburgh Ancient

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 16" x 1/2". A tree of great standing, this one. Situated along the narrow road from Dryburgh Abbey above the river, heading up toward John Smith's huge statue of William Wallace on Bemersyde Estate gr…

• Shoreside Cottage, Pennan

  Oil, Panel, 16" x 12" x 0.25". The bright paint details of seaside cottages are SO appealing! This is a wee cottage in the village of Pennan, on Scotland’s NE coast. Print Options for Purchase 9" x 12" Paper Open Editio…

• Ruminations on the Chessmen

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 16" x 1/8". A hoard of beautifully carved ivory chessmen was discovered in the machair (tall beachgrassland) on this westerly-facing beach on the rugged Uig Penninsula, Isle of Lewis, in 1831. It may b…

• Arbroath Abbey

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10" x 1/8". Arbroath Abbey looms rather eerily above the Arbroath skyline, even in the light of day. Perhaps this is because the building and grounds ooze drama and history in the lives of Scots and Eng…

• Fettes Farm House

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16"

• Redcastle

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14 x .25". The roofless remains of the McKenzie Clan stronghold at Killearnan on the Black Isle.

• Summer Grazing near Beauly

  Oil, Canvas, 4" x 6" x 1"

• Autumn in the Highlands (near Plockton)

  Oil, Panel, 4" x 6" x 1/8". I love the Highlands in Autumn! The changeable weather keeps one guessing as to what to wear, one minute to the next, and when caught out in the driving rain and wind, is there anything so pl…

• Macduff Study

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 6.75" x 1/8"

• Just Married

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Print Purchase Options 6" x 8" Open Ed matted Mini Print $15.00 USD 11" x 14" Open Edition Paper $50.00 USD 11" x 14" Ltd. Ed. of 350 s/n, Paper giclee $65.00 USD 11" x 14" Ltd Ed of 350 s/n Unstr…

• Mayfield....Jim's Paradise

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 40"

• Hanging Basket, Stirling

  Acrylic, Canvas, 20" x 16" x 1/2"

• City Fathers

  Oil, Canvas, 32" x 28" x 1/2". Purchase Options 14" x 16" Open Ed Paper Giclee Print $60.00 USD 14" x 16" Ltd Ed of 350 Paper Giclee Print, s/n $80.00 USD 14" x 16" Ltd Ed of 350 Unstr Canvas Giclee, s/n $165.00 USD 14"…

• Celtic Cross, Iona

  Oil, Canvas, 6" x 4" x 1"

• Eilean Donan

  Oil, Canvas, 4" x 6" x 1"

• Shipton Barn

  Watercolor, Paper

• Plough Inn

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 12" x 1/2". This lovely establishment on the Black Isle is a former drovers' & travellers' inn, dating from the 17th century. Before the advent of the steam train in the 2nd half of the 19th century,…

• Chimneypots, Inverness

  Oil, Canvas, 11.5" x 22" x 1/2"

• Glasgow Cathedral Window

  Watercolor, Paper, 15" x 11"

• Eglington Cathedral

  Watercolor, Paper, 20" x 14". The variety of angles & shapes in this fascinating cathedral in Eglington, a suburb of Edinburgh made it an interesting painting subject. One can just picture peasants clad in rough linen s…

• Steading Flowerbox

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12" x 1/8". * Bring a bit of rural Scottish atmosphere and colour to your home or office! * Available on paper or canvas. The Limited Edition prints are personally hand-signed and numbered by the artist…

• The Nunnery Iona

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 13" x 1/8"

• Brig o'Dee

  Acrylic, Canvas, 14" x 11" x 1/2". The Dee Bridge, Aberdeen

• Pennan

  Oil, Canvas, 23" x 53" x 5/8". Pennan is a wee isolated village on Scotland's NE coast. It was put on the map in 1985 by 'Local Hero,' an excellent film about dealing with the oil industry starring Burt Lancaster. The '…

• After the Harvest, Auchenblae

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10" x 1/8". Rural Scotland....I could gladly spend the remainder of my days exploring, observing, drinking in the beauty of it all....despite the man- (or woman-) eating midgies! This painting was inspi…

• Uig 'White House'

  Oil, Canvas, 4" x 6" x 1 1/2". It's a challenge to complete a small work. Possibly more so than a large painting! Much less canvas to cover, yet much more compact space to 'get it all in.' All in a day's painting! This…

• Morning in MacDuff

  Oil, Masonite, 11" x 14" x 1/8". MacDuff, a wee fishing village on Scotland’s north coast; most of the building exteriors are a weathered brownish tone. Steep streets, a still-busy harbour, a dramatic rocky coastline ma…

• Glasgow, West End

  Watercolor, Paper, 20" x 14". Stonework & brickwork, staple building materials in Scotland, are such a contrast for me, brought up around wood frame construction in the Pacific Northwest. These are a couple of typical b…

• Moonfleet

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16"

• Macduff

  Oil, Masonite, 12" x 6 3/4"

• Nicola's Netting

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 12"

• Uig Highlander

  Oil, Canvas, 14 x 11. Highland Cattle - I'm guessing they must not be too far distant genetically from the Musk Ox. This gorgeous dun-coloured fellow posed rather graciously for me on a windswept moor of the Uig Pennins…

• Necropolis Crosses, Glasgow

  Acrylic, Masonite, 19 3/4" x 11" x 1". The Necropolis is an extraordinary cemetery in the heart of Glasgow. I can't resist adding this description by John Strang, Chamberlain at the Merchants' House, written in 1831, ti…

• Drydock, Gourdon

  Acrylic, Canvas, 32" x 40" x 1/2'. The drydocked wooden boats at NE Scotland's Gourdon harbour drew my attention during repeated visits. This old vessel appears to be in pretty good shape yet. Custom framed in a substan…

• Stoney Harbour

  Oil, Canvas, 10" x 12". A chill but sunny October day in Stonehaven on Scotland's NE coast, working with water-soluble oils resulted in this study of the harbourside at ebb tide. This painting is unframed and is shipped…

• Shearing, Isle of Lewis

  Watercolor, Paper, 15" x 11". A warm day on the Isle of Lewis found this shepherd hard at work near Calanais. ~ Reproductions available ~

• Seaside Colour, Kincardine

  8" x 10"

• Poppies in the Garden

  Oil, Masonite, 36" x 24" x 1/2". Accompanying friends on their rounds - in this case an entertaining group fiddle lesson in a welcoming old kitchen with huge flagstones for flooring - is always an adventure in Scotland!…

• Stonehaven, Harbourside

  Pastel, Paper, 5 1/2" x 9 1/2". A wee study of a small section of buildings set along the harbour in Stonehaven. Some (or parts of some) have been in place for hundreds of years in this busy old fishing village turned r…

• Stonehaven Beach

  Oil Pastel, Paper, 4 1/4" x 5 1/4". Rather abstract study of the rocks and water on the south end of Stonehaven beach, with just a hint of the town in the background. This oil pastel is done on handmade paper.

• Ancestral Grazing Lands

  Oil, Canvas, 40" x 30" x 1/2". Scotland's colourful history and politics understandably center around survival - specifically shelter and sustenance. The docile Scottish Highlander played a starring role in satisfying t…

• Great Hairy Beasties

  Oil, Masonite, 11" x 14" x 1/8". This painting was inspired by a pair of great bullocks lazing on Novar Estate north of Dingwall in summer. The closer animal struck me as rather statuesque reclining in the lush grass, a…

• Gateway to the Cuillins

  Masonite, 11 x 19 3/4 x 0.25". The Isle of Skye off Scotland's West Coast, with all it’s mystery and charisma. I wonder what this sturdy old pack bridge at Sligachan has seen in it's time? The clear, heady atmosphere he…

• Near Calanais, Isle of Lewis

  Acrylic, Canvas, 18 1/4" x 14 1/4" x 1/8?

• Edinburgh Castle from the Churchyard

  Watercolor, Paper, 14.75" x 11". A wee bit of Edinburgh Castle can be seen in the distance from the churchyard on the edge of ancient Nor' Loch below. There are many days in Scotland when everything feels damp & GREEN,…

• Ross-shire Atmospheric

  Acrylic, Panel, 12" x 9". Winter in the Northern Hemisphere: short days, freezing temps, and lots of time we'd prefer to be indoors! This was painted a dark January day at Redcastle Estate on Scotland's Black Isle (actu…

• Sligachan

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 40" x 1". The land of Gaelic myth and legend where time seems often to be frozen in space has countless Highland faces: here it's Sligachan, a place of raw windswept beauty on the Isle of Skye in the…

• Standing Stones, Calanish

  Oil, Canvas, 6" x 4" x 1". A wee painting set on the Isle of Lewis off Scotland's west coast....eerie with it's large groupings of stones pointing skyward on windswept high points in the area.