JIM WYLIE
oil on canvas
20cm x 20cm image size
Gold Frame with white slip
This colourful little oil painting by Jim Wylie, “Cumbrae Shore,” really captures that fresh, breezy feeling you get by the sea on Great Cumbrae. The shoreline sweeps gently round the bay, with soft blue water melting into sandy yellows and warm pinks, while low hills and pops of red-orange trees sit quietly in the background.
The chunky brushstrokes and bold, slightly unexpected colours give it a relaxed, almost dreamy vibe — like the light is constantly shifting and the air is full of salt and sunshine. It feels peaceful and wide open, the kind of place you’d happily wander along for hours just soaking it all in.
Jim Wylie - Cumbrae Shore
Jim Wylie, a native of Glasgow, is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art where he studied Drawing and Painting under such prominent figures as Willie Armour, Geoff Squires, Sinclair Thomson, and Duncan Shanks. The grounding he received in composition and in colour in the true Glasgow tradition has remained a mainstay of his work.
Wylie exhibits continually in a variety of private galleries across Scotland, with work also widely available in cards and in print. He is a member of Paisley Art Institute and contributes regularly to the annual exhibition, one of the largest of its kind outside Glasgow or Edinburgh, where he has been awarded prizes on three occasions.
