Adventures in a Perilous Realm Exhibition
Cockenzie House, 22 Edinburgh Road, Cockenzie EH32 0SZ
1st March 2024 – 4th April 2024 (10am-4pm)
rowanhills
rowanhills
Romantic Landscapes in Oils
Paintings, prints, posters, calendars & cards
MARTIN COVENTRY
Adventures in a Perilous Realm
Painting is dangerous, very dangerous.
When you start a new work you have no idea to where you will journey, how long you will spend trapped or what wonders or horrors await. Hours then days, even weeks, can pass in a twinkling, only commemorated by aching limbs and shoulders, by chilled fingers and toes, by hands and clothes bedaubed in layers of paint, by blurred and fragmented reality, having had little food or sleep or peace for ages – and lacking any sense of direction, indeed any hope of arrival.
Castle Rock: a crumbling old castle on an idyllic island.
A pleasant place for a lazy picnic or a haunted stronghold with a fearsome secret?
Visit Towering Mountains, Climbing Forests, Cascading Waterfalls and Sandy Shores as the Sea Sighs
All conjured out of the air from nothing more than an innocent canvas, a few bristling brushes and a mingled palette of heaped colour and hue.
The Hidden Glen: the once impregnable citadel of the mighty mountain king.
Yet lost to all but legend.
Come Explore a Mystical Land
For the imagination is the unknown country where memory and dreams and myth blend into a secret world.
Elfs will walk the woods.
A Path Through a Forest Led: as the trees close in and dusk looms and merry voices can just be heard.
Find Wonder in Nature
The manifestation of creation in all its fiercest glory and elemental power as time unrelenting grinds all to dust.
Tempest: a sea of massive waves rolling onto Middle Earth with unstoppable force.
Discover Beauty in Nature
Fantastic vistas and dramatic landscapes in simple paints.
Setting Sun: the culmination of a joyous day as dusk slips into the tranquil sea.
See and Experience and then Possess the Spirit of the Romantic World.
Adventures in a Perilous Realm, the untamed domain of dreams made manifest in colour.
Rowanhills: an ancient rowan tree, revered for warding off evil, tried by time yet flourishing.
What we do at Rowanhills
Original oil paintings and other works, prints and posters, cards and calendars
Paintings in oils
Original romantic oil paintings on canvas and board in specially designed and bespoke frames.
Come along and visit the exhibition, details here.
Available to buy from the exhibition while details on online purchase will follow.
Prints and posters
A range of prints and posters available, with mounts or frames and various sizes from the paintings on display.
Available to buy from the exhibition.
Calendars
2025 Calendar (A3 folded to A4) with twelve views encompassing the year from the paintings on display.
Available to buy from the exhibition.
Cards
Single and packs of versatile cards with envelopes from the paintings on display.
Available to buy from the exhibition.
Mixed media
From Joyce Miller to follow in 2025
Water colours
From Joyce Miller to follow in 2025
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