Online art gallery, this online art gallery by Scottish artist Jim Dewar is dedicated to showing Scottish landscape and seascape paintings by the artist. Also included on this website are some of Jim's portraiture, wildlife and caricature works.

About Jim Dewar

  Jim has over twenty-five years experience working as a professional artist. He has produced many landscape and seascape paintings plus a wealth of portraiture and caricatures . Included on this website are portraits of famous Hollywood Legends like Steve McQueen, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Marlena Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe and many more. Ordinary every day people are also featured on the portraits page. The wildlife page includes intimate and detailed studies of animals and birds such as the Scottish Highlands own Golden Eagle and Highland cattle, also from further afield there are studies of tigers and a silverback gorilla. Family pets (cats and dogs) are also included on this page. Jim's caricature work is also shown, amongst these are some famous faces, including a few from Rangers Football Team from about 1993. Caricatures are mostly private commissions by people who want to mark a special occasion or celebration, such as Birthdays, Weddings, Retirement etc. A caricature can be tailored to suit almost any occasion.

Jim has always been interested in drawing and painting and from a very early age he would spend hours striving to improve in his chosen medium, which in those early years was mostly pencil and coloured pencils. In 1979 he was employed as an illustrator by a local newspaper and magazine publishers in Dundee. It was around this time that he concentrated more on portraiture and caricature, also a lot of illustration and cartoon work. Jim has always enjoyed the challenge of capturing a true likeness in his portraiture work and this is particularly evident in his Hollywood Legends portraits.

Around 1990 Jim decided he needed more satisfaction from his work. Having always enjoyed and appreciated the beauty and often ruggedness of the Scottish landscape, Jim drew inspiration from this and visits to dramatic locations such as the Isle of Skye and the brooding grandeur of Glencoe fuelled his ambition to branch out into painting the Scottish landscape . Starting with watercolour he spent the next few years familiarising himself with the medium and developing a variety of techniques and a working style.

Before long he realised he found great pleasure and enthusiasm in capturing the atmosphere, mood, drama and ruggedness of the Scottish Landscape in his paintings with the use of colour. On occasions his paintings have been described as having a fantasy aspect to them.

In the mid 90’s Jim joined several local art societies including Dundee Art Society, Broughty Ferry Art Society, Monifieth Art Society and Arbroath Art Society, he had lots of success in their exhibitions, gaining him confidence and drive.
After a few years of working mainly in watercolour, Jim has more recently broadened his media to include oil, pastel and particularly acrylic, as being able to use the texture of the paint can often capture that elusive mood. "Reflections, River Tay", "The Silvery Tay", "Storm at Achmithie", and "Sunset at Broughty Castle" are just a few examples of Jim's acrylic paintings on this website.

Jim continues to be an enthusiastic exhibitor and his work can regularly be found in local exhibitions.

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Jim's " Cadam Woods, before the fell " pictured opposite was a recent prize winner at the Summer Salon exhibition, The Meffan Gallery, Forfar.

For current and future exhibitions please click HERE

To view paintings currently hanging in galleries please select gallery of choice from the list below -

Edwardo Alessandro Studios
Canvas Art Gallery
The Wellmeadow Gallery
The Sun Gallery
The Heron Gallery
Scottish Showcase Gallery
The Braemar Gallery

In 2003 Jim joined the Original Art Group, which consists of six Tayside artists with the common goal of exhibiting and selling their work to a much wider audience. The variety of styles and media used by the members results in exhibitions that are full of contrast yet still in total harmony. For group exhibitions click HERE

The success and popularity of Jim’s work is reflected in continued sales both in the UK and as far afield as Ireland, Spain, China, New Zealand and the USA.

For a full bibliography of Jim previous exhibitions.

Pittenweem Arts Festival August 4th - 12th 2007: JIm Dewar and John Stoa returned to the Pittenweem Arts Festival for the fourth successive year. We would like to thank all who visited in 2007 and hope to see you again in 2008. More information will be posted as soon as details are confirmed.

This online art gallery is constantly being updated with new works, giving internet browsers the opportunity to view these new paintings before they go on display in a gallery for sale to the public.

If you are interested in purchasing any of the paintings you have seen on this website or if you would like to commission a landscape painting, seascape painting, portrait or caricature.

Please Contact: Jim.
Thank you for visiting, I hope you enjoyed the experience and will return again.

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This page was last updated January 2008

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