Some of my latest Lake District paintings now available at Beckstones Art Gallery

Detail from "Looking into Grisedale", Grisedale, Cumbria. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021426

Detail from "Frosty morning above Ullswater - Gowbarrow Park", Ullswater, Cumbria. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021427

Detail from "Autumn near Stonethwaite", Stonethwaite, Cumbria. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021428

Detail from "Last of the sunlight beside Crummock Water", Crummock Water, Cumbria. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021429
 

Detail from "Bright Autumn Morning - Watendlath Beck", Watendlath, Cumbria. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021430

Detail from "Langstrath Rapids", Langstrath, Cumbria. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021431

Detail from "Buttermere and Crummock Water from Hause Point", Crummock Water, Cumbria. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021432 

Detail from "Towards Glenridding and Ullswater", Ullswater, Cumbria. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021433
 

Detail from "Perfect day in Langstrath", Langstrath, Cumbria. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021434
 

Detail from "Warnscale Beck to Haystacks, High Crag and High Style", Fleetwith Pike, Cumbria. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021435

 These and my other Lake District paintings can be seen here on the Beckstones Art Gallery website.

"The Summer Exhibition" at Lincoln Joyce Fine Art, Great Bookham, Surrey

Below are some my watercolour and oils painting that have gone into this exhibition. These will be exhibited alongside some of the galleries other well known artists.

Lincoln Joyce Fine Art
The Summer Exhibition: 9th July to 26th July

Detail from "Before the thaw", Oxfordshire. Watercolour.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 02230

Detail from "Falmouth", Cornwall. Watercolour.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 02416

Detail from "A perfect spring day", Yorkshire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 02606

Detail from "Into the bright sunlight", Yorkshire. Watercolour.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 02736

Detail from "Between the fields", Derbyshire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 02809

Detail from "Afternoon walk on the beach", Kent. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 02884

Detail from "Fish and Chips for Lunch", Cornwall. Watercolour.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 02952

Detail from "Early Winter", Staffordshire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 02955

Detail from "Ebbing tide - Mousehole", Cornwall. Watercolour.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021011

Detail from "Spring day ride", Gloucestershire. Watercolour.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021013

Detail from "Soaring above the Cotswolds", Gloucestershire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021046

Detail from "Quite village", Yorkshire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021048

Detail from "Sunlight on heavy dew covered crops", Northamptonshire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021074

Detail from "Late afternoon - Halton Gill", Yorkshire. Watercolour.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021082

Detail from "Young Paddlers", Gloucestershire. Watercolour.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021087

 Detail from "Misty Morning near Chorleywood", Watercolour.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021167

Detail from "The big tree", Nottinghamshireshire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021216

Detail from "Wet beach with Serpentine cliffs", Cornwall. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021217

 Detail from "Patchy snow around Grindleford", Derbyshire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021307

Detail from "Walking along the farm track", Derbyshire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021313

Detail from "Nottinghamshire stream in winter", Nottinghamshire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021351

Detail from "Great year for Bluebells", Derbyshire. Oil.
Alistair Butt © 2014 - #AB 021365

Calling all Oil Painters - ROI submission

Founded in 1882, the ROI seeks work in oils and is the only national art society devoted exclusively to oil painting.

The ROI uphold the age-old tradition of painting in oils, whilst giving encouragement to outstanding young oil painters of the future.

Acceptable media: Oils. Acrylic is acceptable if it is framed as an oil, so as not to spoil the general appearance of the exhibition. Glazing or wide mounts between painting and frame, as in watercolours, are not acceptable.

We cannot receive works taller than 2.4m (8ft).

Conditions: Minimum price £300, unframed prints £120.

Submission Fee: £12 per artwork, £6 per artwork for artists aged 35 or under.

Submit online now

For more information and inspiration, visit: www.theroi.co.uk


Also don't forget there's only a few days left before the RSMA submission time closes...

details can be found here: www.rsma-web.co.uk or Royal Society of Marine Artists (mall galleries)
Deadline is 24 July at 12 noon.