The Scottish Highlands have captured travellers’ imaginations since Sir Walter Scott began setting his wildly evocative historical novels here. What those first Victorian tourists discovered was a vas

I’m a landscape artist who is fortunate enough to live and work in the far northwest of Scotland. Almost every day I am either out in the hills or in my studio, trying to find ways to convey something

I’m a landscape artist who is fortunate enough to live and work in the far northwest of Scotland. Almost every day I am either out in the hills or in my studio, trying to find ways to convey something

I’m awake. Very awake. It’s early on a wind-whipped Sunday morning and I’m neck-deep in the sea off the Isle of Man’s north-east coast. The rain is steady, the swell is heavy and the water is gaspindu

Train Landscape , 1940, watercolour on paper, 17¼in ...

From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals