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Brian Scampton Artist Displaying the artwork of the Irish Painter Brian Scampton. Showing my most recent artworks, news of exhibitions, etc.

At Malin Head there is, in addition to the Saddle Rock, another great and distinctive offshore rock named 'The Stook' (a...
17/10/2026

At Malin Head there is, in addition to the Saddle Rock, another great and distinctive offshore rock named 'The Stook' (as it resembles a wheat or barley stack that was once a very common sight in the fields and hillsides in this area), which appears a more solemn and imposing edifice than The Saddle, especially the closer you get to it. It looked to me to be two or three times as high as The Saddle when I sailed near it once on a boat trip.
A soon to be finished painting in oil and oil pastel on canvas, one of several which am working on as a series...more to follow.

One of the small tray frame canvas paintings that sold at Malin Head this summer. It is one of the series I did of views...
25/09/2026

One of the small tray frame canvas paintings that sold at Malin Head this summer. It is one of the series I did of views of Inishtrahull Island, a presently uninhabited Island that lies off the coast of Malin Head, and about a half-hour boat trip away.

The area has a 'peripheral' quality with its unusually rugged terrain of steeply sloping embankments crowned with gleaming ridges of rock, bleached white in that clear northern sunlight. Lying at the northern extremities, there is nothing to behold beyond those dazzling rocky ramparts but the silent, sprawling waters of the North Atlantic.

For anyone travelling in the area, my work can be seen at the wonderful Seaview Tavern Seafood Restaurant in Malin Head.

Northern Bluff, Coast Road, Malin Head.Latest of my small framed paintings of an oft-repeated motif.
18/09/2026

Northern Bluff, Coast Road, Malin Head.

Latest of my small framed paintings of an oft-repeated motif.

My small painting of some rocks by the shore of Lough Foyle in winter was also among the ones that were purchased locall...
08/09/2026

My small painting of some rocks by the shore of Lough Foyle in winter was also among the ones that were purchased locally last month. Mount Benevenagh worked well as a backdrop in this one. There are a few similar ones here I'd not thought of framing and putting on public display until now. I might just do so.

I will be adding more to the website too, in a few days time. Then you can give it a wee 'visit' and see what's new there.

Sold!'A Jutting Rock Under A Brooding Sky: Malin Head'A personal favourite, has found a new home in Derry. I was fairly ...
26/08/2026

Sold!

'A Jutting Rock Under A Brooding Sky: Malin Head'

A personal favourite, has found a new home in Derry. I was fairly pleased that I was able to express with this little painting at least something of what this stretch of Atlantic sea coast has meant to me over the years, having looked out upon it, absorbing it, often wholly captivated by it, under many and varied conditions.

'The Sea in Summer: Hell's Hole, Malin Head'Oil on canvas.
21/08/2026

'The Sea in Summer: Hell's Hole, Malin Head'

Oil on canvas.

'Fahan, looking across Lough Swilly toward Inch Island and Rathmullan' is now sold and gone to its new home in County Wi...
17/08/2026

'Fahan, looking across Lough Swilly toward Inch Island and Rathmullan' is now sold and gone to its new home in County Wicklow.

From the sandy dunes above a deserted Lisfannon Beach looking across Lough Swilly towards Inch Island and the Rathmullan side of the Lough on a serene sort of an afternoon. How restful a scene with that sprawling body of sand, with the low hills narrowing to a strip as they retreat into the far horizon.
There's a scene that has been imprinted in my consciousness since earliest childhood.
Glad it has found a home at last.

'The shattered Wave'Oil on boardMy finished and framed small oil painting in the 'winter by the coast' series. It never ...
14/08/2026

'The shattered Wave'

Oil on board

My finished and framed small oil painting in the 'winter by the coast' series. It never really progressed much beyond a sketch in oil paint. Nevertheless, I am pleased with the effect, its delineation, the colouring, and the slightly tapestry-like effect it has acquired. Now I just need to think of somewhere to exhibit it.

Winter, presently a long way off I know, can be a time of peculiar comforts among the obvious discomforts, in my experience and perception of it anyway. Well, thats sort of what this is about.

A remembered wave, it is, because its breaking and obliteration on those rocks was a remembered event. A lonely wave breaking over the dark, lonely rocks in the cold, cruel sea back in bleak December. The mundane event witnessed only by the solitary walker returning from the shore to the comforts of home. A movement which was a moment which was an event.
In the moment, a peculiar spot of winter light spilled and swelled in that dissipating wave, divesting the memory of it of its desolate aspect; -something that is gone as soon as it arrives, -and then lingered, and now lives in the painted remembrance.

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8 Bath Terrace, Gort North, Moville
Donegal
F93 HYOH

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