Frances Macdonald | Sea Fever

In Sea Fever we find the artist painting her long-favoured subjects: the curve of The White Strand of the Monks and the Island of Storms on the east coast of Iona; the distinctive rocks of the North End; the extraordinary views west from Crinan; the full blooming of bluebells in the Argyll forest. She takes her tonal range and palette from nature and then goes some way to represent the movement and physicality of her subject with the palette knife and oil paint she favours.