Alastair Faulkner FRCS (Scottish b.1988)

Alastair Faulkner FRCS (Scottish b.1988)
Clouds over the Tay Rail Bridge
Signed (lower right)
Oil on canvas
35 x 45cm
Unframed

Alastair Faulkner FRCS is an artist and orthopaedic surgeon based on the foothills of the Ochil Hills in Scotland. A largely self-taught artist, he returned to painting in 2016, capturing scenes around Scotland at the extremes of the day and at night and to portraiture. He has received a number of commissions from clients within the UK and abroad. Trauma, painted during the COVID-19 pandemic featured widely in the media, in the book “Portraits for NHS Heroes” (Bloomsbury) and is currently on display at the Surgeon’s Hall Museum, Edinburgh. He featured in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year in 2018 and his portrait went on display in Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park. He became a member of the Scottish Society of Artists in 2020.