Leila Aitken Artist in Oils

 

Hello and welcome to my web site

  

Enjoy looking at these views of North Berwick painted in oils, some in situ but always finished off in the studio - the East Coast wind is not conducive to sitting in one place for several hours! But walking along the beaches in all weathers gives me a constant urge to paint - there's the splash of the sea against the rocks- the reflections of the wading birds in still water, the chubby figures of small children on the sand with their brightly coloured buckets and striped jumpers and especially the way the sea and the clouds are constantly changing their patterns and colours. 

This wet summer has meant a delightful abundance of wild flowers thanks to the careful tending of our verges by the East Lothian Council. My favourites are the lacy hedges of cow parsley in early summer and the tall yellow sow thistle in the sand dunes. Wild poppies are everyone's favourite and can always be found in the dunes in the East Bay.

 

For other wild flower paintings or to commission a beach painting

e-mail me at studio@leilaaitken.co.uk