Allan MacDonald

MacDonald's latest twelve paintings are inspired by an expedition to Iceland in 2022, and they capture some of the unexpected wonders of a country famous for sagas, ice, volcanoes and...

Autumn can be the most beautiful time of the year here in Kilmorack. Colours intensify before a frost, or a strong wind winter the world. October is the reddest month...

BORROWED LAND is an exhibition which celebrates the importance of land, sea and sky, and the artists who have made it their muse. Scottish landscape has a power known throughout the world, but it is more than this - it is a home and an ecology.



This exhibition includes work by twenty-five artists: from the awe-inspired painters, the northern romantics, to others who see it as a metaphor or celebrate its silence, and ceramic artists who reform its clay-body with fire.

There is something in Allan MacDonald’s paintings greater than even the hills, trees and light which he draws inspiration from. This latent power, and his energetic use of oils, makes...

Kilmorack Gallery is now into its winter hours, so we are open Wednesdays until Saturdays until the new year. After this we are open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. This...

Inspired by iconic artist Tom Thomson, Allan MacDonald returned from a visit to the lakes and rivers of Thomson’s Canada to Scotland in the fall of 2019. In his baggage were small carefully wrapped paintings in bright autumn colours. These have now been worked up into a major exhibition – ‘Algonquin’ - showing in Kilmorack Gallery in September this year. This new body of work brings Canada and Scotland together and remind us of the small moments that both artists, Thomson and MacDonald, stretch out to become rapturous and significant.

In this wonderful new body of work Allan MacDonald furthers his exploration of untouched places and their closeness to an enduring and powerful presence. This is done with MacDonald's infinitely...

Kilmorack Gallery is pleased exhibit the lastest paintings by Allan MacDonald this March. This is our twenty-first year exhibiting the work of MacDonald and it is always a joy to...

Kilmorack Gallery is please to present the first in a group of three exhibitions which focus on the work of five selected Scottish artists in each exhibition. In part one...

We are pleased to present new landscapes by Highland-based ALLAN MACDONALD (b. 1965.) This is MACDONALD’s twenteith year exhibiting in Kilmorack Gallery in which time he has aquired a reputation...

Scottish artists have always been drawn to the sea, pulled along by instinct, like salmon, to the coast. It was a powerful draw to twentieth century artists – Eardley, Houston...

ALLAN MACDONALD's paintings of the Scottish landscape are increasingly sought after. Works in this August's exhibition - Rock of Ages - are inspired by trips to the wildest coasts MACDONALD...