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Scottish Art - Paintings of Scotland:
Braemar Castle Pines

by D. Bruce Bennett

Castle in the Pines

Tall, slender pines sequester this ancient Highland castle from the modern world, while a few early spring flowers dot the hillside leading up to it. Those familiar with Braemar Castle, Deeside, will recognize this turreted fortress. Some of the oldest and most well-known of the Scottish Highland Games take place on its grounds every September.

Built in 1628, Braemar Castle had a star-shaped, defensive curtain wall added by the English government in the 1700s, which Bruce has subtracted from this painting. Exercising even more artistic license, he's shown Scotland's ever-present overcast sky as it's about to unleash one of its recurrent rainstorms - which may account for the slightly mossy appearance of the castle turrets.

The buyer, when she spotted this rather small piece of Scottish Art in our booth at the local Highland games, recognized it immediately as her "ticket" to another place and time. How about you? Could you use the same sort of inexpensive "trip" - to Braemar Castle or maybe a Highland castle you’ve personally visited and would like to "visit" every day? See how easy it is to commission a painting and then tell Bruce your picture-of-Scotland idea.

Castle in the Pines Picture of Scotland
Medium: acrylic on hardboard
Image Dimensions: 10.5" w. x 13.5" h.
Mat: none
Glass: none
Frame: 1.5" wide dull gold finish on wood with beige linen liner; 13.25" w. 16.5" h.
(This painting of Braemar Castle in the pines SOLD in September 2003,
but you could commission a similar piece of Scottish Art.)

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