EXHIBITION
LOUIS S MCNALLY AND IAN MCWHINNIE
Louis S McNally Louis McNally was born in 1963 in Inverkip, Scotland. He attended Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen between 1986-1990. Louis McNally has a very distinctive and recognisable style of oil painting. He painstakingly develops his paintings over many weeks of using drawings, photos and memory. The result is often an emotive and atmospheric land or cityscape with long, low horizons usually inspired by Edinburgh and the East Coast areas. These contemporary paintings have unique haunting qualities which are unusual for paintings of such undoubted fine detailing and observation.
Louis S McNally and Ian McWhinnie Exhibition 29 November – 13 December 2025
With his landscape paintings Louis McNally takes a particular view and stylises it to meet his own impressions. Well known vistas are thus transformed into something which the art viewer beholds and warms to. In doing so he often creates paintings which can have the look of those painted by Victorian Artists but which are undoubtedly contemporary in presentation.
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Buildings in Louis McNally paintings have a solidity and a three dimensional quality to them giving the impression of a living being. In all McNally’s paintings light pays a fundamental role as does the consequential shadow.
Cover Image - Louis S McNally - Silent Night - 19 x 19 inches
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Bass Rock 10 x 10 inches
Watching Swallows 14 x 14 inches Somerset House 21 x 21 inches
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Autumnal Trees 11 x 11 inches
Spring in the Air 16 x 16 inches
Woods 24 x 24 inches 6.
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Three Lions 16 x 16 inches
Waterfront 12 x 12 inches
Spring in the City 28 x 28 inches 8.
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Winter 13 x 13 inches
Birds at the Bay 15 x 15 inches
The River 24 x 24 inches 10.
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Path to the Beach 10 x 10 inches Passing Storm in the City 19 x 19 inches
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Rupert Street 21 x 21 inches 13.
Ian McWhinnie Ian McWhinnie was born in 1952 in Glasgow. As a young artist Ian studied Drawing and Painting at the Glasgow School of Art between 1970-1974. After studying painting at art school McWhinnie became an art teacher specialising in ceramics. With demand for his work increasing Ian set up his own art studio workshop in 2002 producing hand-painted and wheel thrown ceramic pieces. McWhinnie created very striking and distinctive designs which worked equally well as ceramics or paintings. Eventually demand for paintings was so strong that he decided to focus all his energy on the brush.
Ian McWhinnie and Louis S McNally Exhibition 29 November – 13 December 2025
Ian McWhinnie has now developed a very personal and recognizable painting style. His subject matter is diverse. Recent paintings have featured the sea, childhood memories, Italy, musicians, dancers and the circus which is a recurring theme. McWhinnie paintings depict Figures of strong character closely assembled and cropped tightly within each painting.
Cover Image - Ian McWhinnie - Evening, Quebec - 12 x 11 inches
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River Portrait 12 x 11 inches
Winter Portrait 9 x 11 inches
The Blue Vase 12 x 11 inches
The Student 20 x 18 inches
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Summer in the City 12 x 11 inches The Landscape Within 16 x 11 inches
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Rendezvous 20 x 18 inches
Shoreline Portrait 17 x 13 inches
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Northern Shore 9 x 8 inches
Springtime 12 x 11 inches The White Table 17 x 13 inches
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Portrait with Mandolin 17 x 13 inches
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The Distant Coast 13 x 12 inches The Performers 16 x 11 inches The Island 26 x 22 inches 22.
EXHIBITION
IAN MCWHINNIE AND LOUIS S MCNALLY