Ivor MacKay • Hebridean Art

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painting with the light of the north


 

 
  • “Summer Sea, Bosta”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Atlantic Shoreline”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “He Shall Command his Angels Concerning You, Minch Tempest”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Borve Beach Panoramic”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “SY Sheigra”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Morning Peace, Dalbeag”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “By Stocknish, a Still Summer Day”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Dalmore Beach, Winter”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “July Peace, the Butt of Lewis”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Melbost Borve, Atlantic Storm”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “SY Amazing Grace, Autumn Morning”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Luskentyre Sand Flats”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Adabrock to Port of Ness”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Red Massey Ferguson tractor, Upper Carloway”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Atlantic Solitude, Northton”, by Ivor MacKay
  • ““The Exalted Trawler””, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Manishader, Bragar, Westerly Gale”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Ballantrushal Crofthouse”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “January Breakers, Borve Beach Panoramic”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “January Sky”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “SY Onward Fishing the Stormy Atlantic off Harris”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Atlantic Sunset, Loch Labost”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Fishing by Butt of Lewis Lighthouse”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Atlantic Beauty”, by Ivor MacKay
  • “Port Of Ness Beach”, by Ivor MacKay

• Paintings, Drawings and Prints from the Western Isles of Scotland •

Newest picture for sale on site: Wild Purple Clover

Current totals:
73 original works for sale  ·  677 works available as prints
Last picture added: 2025-07-18

Welcome to my website.  Here you can see all the works currently available for sale, and examples of some I’ve sold in the last few years.  Mostly the pictures are around the Isle of Lewis and Harris, but Uist, Barra, Skye, Iona and the North-West Highlands are also represented.

New Book

I am pleased to announce a project that I have been working on for the past few years.  “Painting With The Light of The North, Volume One, Ness to Uig” is a story of my forty year career as a Hebridean artist.  Initially the book was to be my journey, in one volume, of the entire island.  However this book would have been too thick and heavy so I decided volume one would be the Atlantic side of Lewis.  Hopefully volume two will take you on a journey from Tolsta to South Lochs, the Minch side of the island.  This is a future project.  Volume One is semi autobiographical and is honest.  There are 160 colour images of artworks spanning my career so far.

the front and back of the book

Books cost £30 plus £5 UK postage.  For international orders please e-mail me for costs.

The book is available at the following island outlets priced at £30:

  • The Baltic Bookshop(Stornoway)
  • K.J. Macdonald Chemists (Stornoway)
  • The Picture Framing Centre (Bayhead, Stornoway)
  • Ness Historical Society (Cross, Ness)
  • Gordon’s Shop and Post Office (Back)

Copies can be collected at my studio home here in Upper Coll also, and signed on request.

2026 Calendar now available —
A4 sized Visions of Lewis and Harris 2026
from images of my own paintings.

copies of the calendar with different pages shown

On the front cover is the Butt of Lewis Lighthouse in Ness in North Lewis, in the throes of an Autumn storm.  I have kept the price at £12·00 again this year.  They are locally produced and printed in Stornoway as I like to support island firms.

UK postage is £5·00.  For overseas orders please e-mail me at info@im-hebrideanart.co.uk for delivery costs.

They are for sale at the following outlets in Lewis and Harris:

  • The Baltic Bookshop, Stornoway
  • Nicholsons & Co. paper shop, Stornoway
  • An Lanntair Art Gallery Shop, Stornoway
  • Back Post Office
  • Ness Historical Society, Cross, Ness
  • Seallam Centre, Northton, South Harris

Visitors are welcome to visit my studio at Upper Coll to view artworks for sale all year round by appointment.  My telephone number is 01851-820-201 or should you wish to e-mail then contact me at info@im-hebrideanart.co.uk.  Directions to my studio are as follows:

On the road to Tolsta drive a mile past Tong on the main road and you will see a white Dacia Renault garage.  Directly opposite is a housing scheme called Gearraidh Ghuirm.  As you drive in you will see a white garage directly in front of you belonging to nº7.  I live in nº8 directly next door.  Both buildings are whitewashed.  There is a sign saying hebrideanart on the fence pointing to my studio and home and coloured buoys beneath at the entrance to my drive.

(December 2022:)  176 older and recent sold paintings have been uploaded, many of villages and places in the Hebrides now available as prints for the first time.  Have a look in the sold galleries starting here.

(December 2019:)  I have decided to release for sale a few of the drawings and paintings completed while an art student at Edinburgh College of Art between 1987 and 1991.  This is a rare opportunity to purchase some early works previously unseen.

Prints of most of the pictures (including most of those already sold) can be ordered at various sizes.  If you would like to commission a work, please see the buying advice page.

Venues:  My pictures are on display in several locations around Lewis and Harris.  See the list of venues.