Peter Davis

Peter Davis RSW, with his finely controlled use of watercolour, takes this often neglected medium to new places, most often the west-facing coast of Shetland. It is a great achievement...

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.

Kwikn: to quicken, to come to life. 'Kwiknin o de tide:' the increasing of the sea-current with the changing of the phases of the moon. The bible says the first...

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...

Most of the paintings in this exhibition are the result of walking the same Atlantic-facing walks in all weather. Peter Davis has trodden them so many times that the essence...

Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to share with you new work by artist-in-watercolour Peter Davis.

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...

PETER DAVIS is one of the few Scottish artists to use watercolours. It is a neglected medium that DAVIS has ramped-up; dripping, rotating and splashing into the 21st century. In...