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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Jim's work can always be viewed in a number of local galleries. If you can't get to the gallery most of his new work is shown on his website.

Please visit Jim's website at www.jimdewar.co.uk

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