Wick artist’s painting is part of Edinburgh watercolour exhibition
A painting by Wick artist Ian Charles Scott is on display at the 144th open annual exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
The work, entitled The Children of the Valley Drifted Lovewards, is among over 300 paintings by more than 150 artists being shown in the RSA Upper Galleries on The Mound, Edinburgh, until Wednesday, February 5.
The exhibition is described as Scotland’s primary showcase of watercolour and water-based media and includes work by some of the country’s top artists.
Scott, who is based in New York, finished the painting when he was in Wick last summer. It is 50 inches wide and 36 inches tall.
“It started from a series of sketches I did while climbing the Yellow Mountain in China,” he explained. “This mountain range inspired the famous ancient Chinese scroll paintings of misty mountain vistas.

“Much later I worked these up into the landscape and then worked out the inner story. The title is a poetic interpretation of the vicissitudes of modern love and life.”
Last autumn a museum in Italy that contains works by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo acquired Scott’s painting Sinclair and Girnigoe Resurgam for its permanent collection.